Summary of Episode 10 of normal people



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Normal people

Episode 10

Season 1

Episode 10

Editor rating

3 star

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In another interesting deviation from the book, Connell is not only going to therapy, but he’s actually getting something out of therapy. I, for my part, think this is great! Everyone in this program should be in therapy. Niall, the one (1) decent human being assigned in Connell’s network of friends (Marianne is Joanna), suggested it, when two months after a massive trauma, Connell was still not sleeping or feeling well.

Rob, Connell’s friend from high school who never left his hometown, committed suicide on New Year’s Eve. Although Connell was home for the holidays, it doesn’t seem like the two had gotten together, and at midnight Connell was kissing Helen, who walked home later in this soft pink hat to further establish her brand as No Marianne.

Over the course of the episode, in this therapist’s free but warm office, Connell begins to peel off the layers of his misery. Although this attack of deep pain and grief was sparked by Rob’s death, Connell admits that he has not been truly happy since leaving his home and arriving at Trinity; that he is more alone than ever and longs for this moment and place in his life to which he knows he will never be able to return; that he thought college would improve everything and bring him closer to “like-minded people,” but instead he hasn’t met anyone he can talk to or even like. (I wonder, what happened to those friends Niall had, the first night Connell started socializing? Marianne ran into an insufferable crowd of wealthy kids who was never going to accept Connell as one of her own, but they are not the only students at Trinity. But I guess for Connell, the orbit around Marianne is the only one worth occupying.)

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