Sex has as much meaning as words: how Normal People handles intimacy

The BBC adaptation has remained faithful to Sally Rooney's novel by keeping the intensely evocative sex scenes freighted with meaning The weird thing about Sally Rooney is that you always know exactly what she means, and yet are never bored. I thought that would be the difficultly of getting Normal People on to the screen. If successful drama fires off its unknowns - what will happen next, what is that character thinking, how did their misunderstanding come about, how will it resolve? It's quite...