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NORMAL PEOPLE ***Double Bill***

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RTÉ One – 10:15pm

Episode 9: Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is on a student exchange programme in Sweden for a year. Her breakup with Jamie (Fionn O’Shea) has cost her some of her friends, but she is still in touch with Connell (Paul Mescal) and Joanna (Eliot Salt). She is in a relationship with Lukas (Lancelot Ncube), a photographer who she meets at a college party.
Back in Dublin, Connell is enjoying his relationship with Helen and continuing his studies at Trinity. Word of Marianne’s sex life with Lukas makes its way back to Dublin, and when Connell (Paul Mescal) bumps into Peggy (India Mullen) at a party she asks him about the gossip and whether things were like that with him and Marianne. Connell is upset by the gossip and worries about Marianne and whether she is ok on her own in Sweden.

RTÉ One – 10:45pm

Episode 10: Connell (Paul Mescal) and Helen (Aoife Hinds) are out celebrating New Year’s Eve in Dublin. Late that night, Connell receives a group text questioning the whereabouts of Rob (Eanna Hardwicke). The next morning news comes through that Rob has died.

Connell struggles with the emotional fallout of Rob’s death. After the funeral he is distant with Helen only showing signs of responsiveness when reunited with Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones). His mental health deteriorates when he returns to college, struggling to drag himself to lectures and he ends his relationship with Helen.
Eventually, at Niall’s suggestion he begins counselling. Marianne is still in Sweden and attempts to reassure him over Skype. Through the counselling and Marianne’s friendship Connell begins to see a way forward.