8.423 minSeason 1 • Episode 12
LatestMarianne and Connell are back in Dublin and together as a couple. Life is calm and they are at ease with each other. Then Connell receives news that he has been offered a place to study in New York. Neither of them know how to process the news and so they decide to let it sit.
Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.
Acting
Mescal and Edgar-Jones communicate entire novels in silence.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a sad postcard from your youth.
Direction
Lenny Abrahamson makes intimacy feel almost illegally voyeuristic.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Paul Mescal's chain became such a phenomenon that he auctioned it for Irish mental health charity Pieta House, raising over €70,000.
The series sparked global discourse on 'millennial intimacy' and whether its explicit scenes were revolutionary or simply male-gaze adjacent—directors Abrahamson and Hettie MacDonald insisted on female gaze protocols throughout filming.
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