I’ve been watching Normal People with my ex boyfriend. We live in different countries, so all the watching is individual followed by emails that may arrive in the recipient’s inbox at 3 am their time. It’s the perfect show to watch alone together: the soundtrack would be ruined by anyone else’s live commentary and aspects of the plot mimic our on-off relationship before I moved away and met someone better. We don’t have in-depth discussions, an email might be a single sentence. I realize in writing this that I’m just so bored and lonely that this passes as entertainment. I used to be an interesting person and now I’m not. I don’t care about the ex, who treated me badly while we were together, and wouldn’t mind if he never emailed me again, but for now, all I’ve got is Normal People.