Comic Relief imagines Normal People's Connell and Marianne 40 years on. Apparently, not a lot has changed - ABC News

Normal People has returned to the screens with two special "new episodes" following up the heartbreaking Irish drama's success earlier this year.

The skits, filmed for Irish Broadcaster RTE's four-hour Comic Relief marathon, give viewers a Fleabag crossover, a musical number and a glimpse of Connell and Marianne's life as an older couple.

But if you're hoping for a less frustrating end to their story, you're going to be disappointed — but probably not surprised.

Here's what happened when Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones got back together.

Warning, there are spoilers for Normal People and for the second season of Fleabag, so continue with caution.

Do they end up together?

The show left us unsure about the future for the couple.

At the end, Connell decides to go off to New York after being encouraged by Marianne, who stays in Dublin.

The book is deliberately open-ended and author Sally Rooney reportedly has no plans to write a follow-up, so there's no way to know whether Connell and Marianne actually do end up together.

But Comic Relief gives us a glimpse of what could have been, imaging the couple 40 years in the future in the sketch Older Normal People.

Comic Relief is a television event that brings together comedians and entertainers to raise money for Irish charities, so this isn't an official storyline of the show — it's just a sketch.

But with Normal People director Lenny Abrahamson directing the clip, it's easy to tell yourself it's just another episode in the series.

The good news: it looks like they get back together.

The bad news: they're still having the same kind of excruciating conversations — in this instance, though, it's about beans on toast.

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Hot Priest is there

In a second Normal People skit, Andrew Scott reprises his Hot Priest role from British comedy Fleabag, attempting to counsel both Connell and Marianne in the confessional booth.

And while there's a lot to unpack from the two lovers on either side, it seems he's caught up in something else.

Fleabag fans will know that Hot Priest has his own romantic complications to grapple with.

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Connell's chain makes a comeback

The silver chain Connell wears in the show is so iconic, it amassed its own following of loyal fans.

An Instagram account set up in its honour — @connellschain — has more than 185,000 followers.

The piece of jewellery took the spotlight it deserved when it was revealed that Marianne stole it because she was "angry with someone who hurt me".

Anthony Scott as Hot Priest in a scene from a Comic Relief clip crossing over Normal People with Fleabag.(RTE)

We get to hear Connell sing

As Normal People's popularity thrust Mescal into fame, videos of him singing surfaced on the internet.

Comic Relief gave Normal People fans an unexpected gift: Mescal singing in character.

Tying the whole crossover reunion together was a musical number, with the three characters singing Tracy Chapman's Baby Can I Hold You.

With lyrics like "Years gone by and still words don't come easily" and "Maybe if I told you the right words at the right time you'd be mine", it was a poignant choice.

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Is there going to be a second season of Normal People?

It doesn't look like it.

As we said earlier, Rooney doesn't appear to be planning on writing a sequel.

When asked by Digital Spy if he planned on reuniting Mescal and Edgar Jones for a Normal People, the show's co-producer Ed Guiney didn't commit to a sequel.

"Not in the short term," he said.

"We've turned our attention — we're adapting [Rooney's first book] Conversations with Friends as a television series.

"But maybe down the line we'll come back to Connell and Marianne."

But if you're still hungry for more on Connell and Marianne, you can read At the Clinic, a short story Rooney wrote in 2016 before she penned the novel.

As for Fleabag, the show's creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge says she's not writing any more episodes of the series.

"I haven't changed my mind about season three. It feels more and more about being the right decision," she said at the Golden Globes.

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2020-06-28 07:38:24Z
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