Normal People, the 2019 New York Times best-selling novel from Sally Rooney, has been adapted into a 12-part drama by Room director Lenny Abrahamson. The series debuted on the U.K.'s BBC iPlayer service on April 27, and will be available to watch in the U.S. soon on Hulu.

The Hulu release date for the series will be Wednesday, April 29, when the show is expected to air from midnight PT. At that time, all 12 half-hour episodes of the drama will be streaming at once. All of the episodes are streaming in the U.K. on iPlayer now, and on RTE in the show's native Ireland.

As well as streaming the episodes online, Hulu allows users to download episodes of Normal People and its other shows to watch offline. To download episodes, users have to select a show and move onto the "Episodes" tab, where there should be a download button next to each instalment of the show.

New Hulu subscribers can watch Normal People for nothing with a free trial. Users can get 30 days for free, after which time the service costs $5.99 a month for Basic (with ads), or $11.99 for the ad-free Hulu Premium. Users can also save money with a yearly subscription.

Disney+ subscribers are also eligible for a Hulu deal. Users can get a bundle where they can get Disney+, Hulu Basic and ESPN+ for $12.99 a month.

The Hulu synopsis for the series reads: "Based on Sally Rooney's New York Times best-selling novel, Normal People tracks the tender but complicated relationship of Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal) from the end of their school days in a small town in the west of Ireland to their undergraduate years at Trinity College.

"At school, he's well-liked and popular, while she's lonely, proud, and intimidating. But when Connell comes to pick up his mother from her cleaning job at Marianne's house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagersone they are determined to conceal.

"A year later, they're both studying in Dublin and Marianne has found her feet in a new social world but Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain."

Director Abrahamson, who helmed the first six episodes of the series, told the Financial Times: "It's about a generation that I think we don't do justice to very often. We either make it cute, or we pathologize itEuphoria does that a bit, where it's all about drugs and nihilism.

"I think that show is brilliant, but it's a well-worn road. Somebody like Sally, who is so close to that generation and treats it really seriously, I found that really great."

Normal People is released on Wednesday, April 29 on Hulu.

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