Conversations With Friends: Hulu to adapt another Sally Rooney

After The Handmaid’s Tale, Little Fires Everywhere and Normal People, Hulu has yet another thrilling book adaptation coming up.

Conversations With Friends, another one of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novels, will be adapted by the streaming network. Rooney’s earlier book, Normal People became a hit Hulu Original in 2020 so the decision to adapt her debut novel as well comes as no surprise.

Hulu has ordered a straight series this time, consisting of 12 episodes, half-hour each.

What’s it about?

Conversations with Friends follows two college girls Frances and Bobbi from Dublin forging an unexpected and sexually charged relationship with an older married couple, Melissa and Nick.

The resulting pair of love triangles that upends their lives for better or for worse.

Aspiring writer Frances and her former lover from school Bobbi have taken to performing spoken word poetry in the city of Dublin. Their work is spotted by journalist Melissa and soon the duo are pulled into Melissa’s orbit.

They meet her failed actor husband Nick who is patriarch personified. But despite initial disagreements, Frances finds herself lured into Melissa and Nick’s world, even their most intimate corners.

As things get complicated as they always do, we follow Frances yielding to the chaos and leaving behind her intellectual certainties. She is now living moment to moment, which is as painful as it is disorienting.

When is it out?

There is no word on the premiere date as of now. But we know this series will be one of the first to come on Hulu once the pandemic situation improves.

Announcing the order, vice president of Hulu’s Content Department, Beatrice Springborn said, “Sally Rooney perfectly and beautifully captures the complicated dynamics of relationships in her stories.

After bringing that to life in Normal People to an overwhelmingly positive response, we are honored to do the same with Conversations With Friends.

We are excited to continue our creative partnership with Sally, Element Pictures, Lenny and the BBC, which has been a dream collaboration.”

The creative hands behind the Hulu series will include Lenny Abrahamson (Normal People, ROOM) as the lead director and Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession, and Lady Macbeth) as lead writer.

Meanwhile, Sally Rooney and Lenny Abrahamson will also serve as executive producers.