Boom, Marianne and Connell aren’t really friends. It often feels like things just happen, and we’re simply left to connect the dots. But for all the smoothness of the pacing, we are once again lacking with character motivations. Any jumps forward in time feel natural, and it allows us to follow the more essential parts of Marianne and Connell’s stories. I quite like the way this show handles pacing. Lost in a state of postbreak-up limbo, Marianne and Connell are both trying to navigate keeping some semblance of a friendship intact while both still reeling from their very abrupt split. With a show that relies so heavily on internal dialogue, us viewers have to balance being understanding of characters and wanting to reach into our screens and whack them on the head. “I didn’t have to play any games with you.
