Firstly, the good!

This is a well acted warm series that has very good photography which makes you feel close to the excellent characters.

The Odd!

The directing and story line however, I found odd. In the first four or five episodes we found Marianne was a very bright misfit at high school. She had almost no friends, spoke to few people and even intellectually challenged the teacher due to her intellect. Then when she went to University/College she suddenly became the 'life and sole of the party' and seemed to have lots of friends!

Back at High School, Connell was embarrassed about being her boyfriend or publicly showing affection. Really! Pretty near the hottest brightest girl in school! I don't think so.

The last five or six episodes were a painful collection of break ups and get back together's without any dialogue between them. It was screamingly frustrating and actually ruined the series for me. Why can two such apparently bright people be so bad at communicating? I understand that they're just teenagers, but even so, why couldn't they just say they really liked each other rather than 'just walking away'!.

Anyway - maybe I'm just too old :)