Hulu’s Overlooked 1-Season Romance Is the Perfect Weekend Binge

Sally Rooney’s 12-episode adaptation of *Conversations with Friends* follows university students Frances and Bobbi, former girlfriends whose lives become entangled with married couple Melissa and Nick. The series explores an affair and overlapping attractions through uncertainty, jealousy and unspoken feelings, offering a tense but less compelling romantic drama than Rooney’s *Normal People*.

Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Joe Alwyn and Jemima Kirke star. The story begins when writer Melissa invites Frances and Bobbi into her social circle, where Frances is drawn to her actor husband Nick and Bobbi grows close to Melissa. The article says the television adaptation struggles to convey the novel’s interior thoughts, though it finds the characters’ awkward silences and written exchanges revealing. The series debuted on Hulu in May 2022 and is no longer available there in the US; the article says episodes can be purchased through Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV, subject to regional availability.