This is, after all, a Sally Rooney adaptation. Human instinct, desire, and the our capacity for love clash with academic refutations of senseless practices. Scenes are filled with shared opinions and high-minded ideas, just as quieter moments illustrate how difficult it can be to actually practice those theoretical standards. “Conversations with Friends” is at once a thorough character study (of at least two of its four leads) and a thought experiment about young artists struggling to live within a capitalistic system they resent. Hulu’s 12-episode limited series examines the values assigned to things and people against the values set by society and, at times, experience. Without revealing the answer (revealed later in the premiere), these three eloquent sentences cleanly encapsulate a knotty romance bursting with ideas. I’m all about love, but I have a heart of stone and have been known to prefer to be owned.” “I am inherently worthless, but highly prized,” they say, alternating lines. Frances (newcomer Alison Oliver) sits with her friend, stage partner, and ex-girlfriend Bobbi (Sasha Lane), rehearsing a draft for their next spoken word poetry event. “ Conversations with Friends” opens with a riddle.
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