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My Brilliant Friend

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My Brilliant Friend

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HBO | Release Date: November 18, 2018

Summary: The adaptation of Elena Ferrante's novels tells the story about childhood friends Elena (Elisa Del Genio) and Lila (Ludovica Nasti) in 1950s Naples.

Genre(s): Drama

Recent Episodes

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S4:E10. Restitution
Air Date: November 11, 2024
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S4:E9. The Disappearance
Air Date: November 4, 2024
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S4:E8. The Investigation
Air Date: October 28, 2024

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89

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Critic Reviews

100

The Guardian Rebecca Nicholson

Nov 20, 2024

Season 4 Review: This Italian drama continues to be rich, sumptuous and deliciously overwrought, but at the same time thoughtful and surprisingly delicate. This beautiful take on Ferrante’s work has done nothing but impress since the very beginning, and it goes out on a high. Read full review

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IndieWire Ryan Lattanzio

Mar 16, 2020

Season 2 Review: A gorgeously wrought second season that vividly recreates 1950s postwar Naples, and the complex relationships among its denizens, all of whom are looking for something more among the ruins. Read full review

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IndieWire Amanda Whiting

Feb 28, 2022

Season 3 Review: Engrossing. ... The series, like Ferrante’s book, offers a vivid, close treatment of female friendship. The relationship between Lenù and Lila remains constant in its inconstancy, sustained by jealous curiosity alongside affection. This season, it’s the interactions between Lenù and her mother Immacolata (Annarita Vitolo) that struck me as new and edifying. Read full review

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Vox.com

Emily VanDerWerff

Nov 16, 2018

Season 1 Review: Book fans may be at a slight advantage, since if you’ve forgotten who someone is in a book, you can always go back a few pages. That is a minor complaint in the face of a series that gripped me from frame one, despite telling a very small, intimate story that occasionally amounts to two girls learning lessons about how the world works and little else. Read full review

90

The Hollywood Reporter

Inkoo Kang

Mar 16, 2020

Season 2 Review: My Brilliant Friend's marvelous, harrowing sophomore season begins with a fairy-tale air. Read full review

88

USA Today

Kelly Lawler

Nov 16, 2018

Season 1 Review: The series portrays the lives of two poor young girls, that so many of their contemporaries might deem insignificant, as important and enthralling as anything else onscreen. Read full review

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IndieWire Ben Travers

Nov 15, 2018

Season 1 Review: So many individual pieces are intriguing, and some even prove rewarding over hours of consideration. Still, even the most introspective series doesn’t need to be such a slog. Read full review

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Dan_B

Dec 29, 2020

(Español / English)

Temporada 2 / Season 2 Abstract Español La temporada 2 de Mi amiga brillante (basada en Un mal nombre, segunda novela de la tetralogía de Elena Ferrante) continúa con los encuentros y desencuentros de ls amigas Lenu y Lila. La serie conserva toda su potencia emotiva e(Español / English)

Temporada 2 / Season 2

Abstract Español
La temporada 2 de Mi amiga brillante (basada en Un mal nombre, segunda novela de la tetralogía de Elena Ferrante) continúa con los encuentros y desencuentros de ls amigas Lenu y Lila.
La serie conserva toda su potencia emotiva e incluso la redobla, envolviéndonos con su increíble reconstrucción de época. Desde ya que ciertos tópicos aparecen en otras ficciones, pero siempre el abordaje de los directores Saverio Costanzo y Alice Rohrwacher (y claro, de Ferrante) y el maravilloso desempeño de su elenco (encabezado por Margherita Mazzucco y Gaia Girace, dos auténticas adolescentes nacidas en 2004 y con una asombrosa madurez interpretativa) los dotan de una profundidad, una intensidad y una sobriedad absolutamente originales.

English Abstract Season 2 of My Brilliant Friend (based on A Bad Name, the second novel in Elena Ferrante's tetralogy) continues with the encounters and misunderstandings of the friends Lenu and Lila.

The series retains all its emotional power and even doubles it, enveloping us with its incredible period reconstruction. Of course, certain topics appear in other fictions, but always the approach of the directors Saverio Costanzo and Alice Rohrwacher (and of course, Ferrante) and the wonderful performance of their cast (led by Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace, two authentic teenagers born in 2004 and with an astonishing interpretive maturity) endow them with an absolutely original depth, intensity and sobriety.

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Contiene referencias a la Temporada 1
La temporada 2 de Mi amiga brillante (basada en Un mal nombre, segunda novela de la tetralogía de Elena Ferrante) continúa con los encuentros y desencuentros de ls amigas Lenu y Lila, la primera con su paciente y tenaz camino de formación académica y la pasional y emprendedora Lila inmersa en la trampa familiar de su matrimonio con Stefano, agente de una engañosa prosperidad y la de ese barrio en el que siempre vivió. En ambos casos, omnipresente la matriz patriarcal que busca desalentar elegantemente a la primera y someter a la segunda con una violencia cotidianizada.
No está ausente la rivalidad amorosa entre ambas con el marco de la paradisiaca Ischia, en escenas de gran belleza y sugestión (dirigidas por Alice Rohrwacher y que nos hace comprender el carácter burgués de eso que llamamos adolescencia, un territorio a conquistar por mujeres que pasan de la niñez a la adultez sin escalas) y la irrupción de la inquieta escena política italiana de los 60s.
La serie conserva toda su potencia emotiva e incluso la redobla, envolviéndonos con su increíble reconstrucción de época. Desde ya que ciertos tópicos aparecen en otras ficciones, pero siempre el abordaje de los directores Saverio Costanzo y Alice Rohrwacher (y claro, de Ferrante) y el maravilloso desempeño de su elenco (encabezado por Margherita Mazzucco y Gaia Girace, dos auténticas adolescentes nacidas en 2004 y con una asombrosa madurez interpretativa) los dotan de una profundidad y una sobriedad absolutamente originales.

English Review

Contains references to Season 1

Season 2 of My Brilliant Friend (based on A Bad Name, the second novel of Elena Ferrante's tetralogy) continues with the encounters and misunderstandings of the friends Lenu and Lila, the first with her patient and tenacious path of academic training and passion. and enterprising Lila immersed in the family trap of her marriage to Stefano, agent of a deceptive prosperity and that of the suburb in which she always lived. In both cases, omnipresent the patriarchal matrix that seeks to elegantly discourage the first and subdue the second with daily violence.
The love rivalry between the two erupts within the framework of the paradisiacal Ischia, in scenes of great beauty and suggestion (directed by Alice Rohrwacher and that makes us understand the bourgeois character of what we call adolescence, a territory to be conquered by women who pass from the childhood to adulthood nonstop). The Italian political scene of the 60s and the differences between northern and southern Italy are present and evident.
The series retains all its emotional power and even doubles it, enveloping us with its incredible period reconstruction. Of course, certain topics appear in other fictions, but always the approach of the directors Saverio Costanzo and Alice Rohrwacher (and of course, Ferrante) and the wonderful performance of their cast (led by Margherita Mazzucco and Gaia Girace, two authentic teenagers born in 2004 and with an astonishing interpretive maturity) give them an absolutely original depth and sobriety.

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rox_roli

Mar 2, 2020

Visually stunning, emotionally subtle but devastating. This is a kind of sensibility in writing young, female characters that I have never found before. The fact that a lot of men don't watch it BECAUSE OF THIS, because it's a story "for women" -- clearly a deficiency for them!-- is a **** PLUS.

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LeoSool

Jun 23, 2020

The most powerful and stunning TV Show. This is without a doubt the best produced HBO series.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 4

tbd
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: September 9, 2024
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  S4:E10. Restitution
  Air Date: November 11, 2024
- tbd
  S4:E9. The Disappearance
  Air Date: November 4, 2024
- tbd
  S4:E8. The Investigation
  Air Date: October 28, 2024
- tbd
  S4:E7. The Return
  Air Date: October 21, 2024
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  S4:E6. The Cheat
  Air Date: October 14, 2024
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  S4:E5. The Fracture
  Air Date: October 7, 2024
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  S4:E4. The Earthquake
  Air Date: September 30, 2024
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  S4:E3. Compromises
  Air Date: September 23, 2024
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  S4:E2. Dispersion
  Air Date: September 16, 2024
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  S4:E1. The Separation
  Air Date: September 9, 2024
Season 3

96
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 28, 2022
Season 2

92
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 16, 2020
Season 1

87
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: November 18, 2018