My Brilliant Friend

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 18, 2018
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 84 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 73 out of 84
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 84
  3. Negative: 6 out of 84
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  1. hijosdelsiglo20
    Feb 13, 2019
    3
    Honestly, this show is boring, and it becomes worse along the series. What's the point of watching this? Too much hype and poor content.
  2. OlivierPiel
    Nov 30, 2018
    0
    very disappointed. What's all the hype about? I expected a superior refined cinematography, opulent as some of the recent Italian series or at least an intricate character development.
    This is just a very linear story, lined with tropes, passing as realistic art....devoid of any charm and poetry with very simplistic one-sided characters. I can only imagine how distraught the original    very disappointed. What's all the hype about? I expected a superior refined cinematography, opulent as some of the recent Italian series or at least an intricate character development.
    This is just a very linear story, lined with tropes, passing as realistic art....devoid of any charm and poetry with very simplistic one-sided characters. I can only imagine how distraught the original writer must feel of this adaptation.
    If you want Italian realism of the post-world area, better rewatch Rocco and his brothers or any other Visconti or De Sica or Rosselini. There, you can find the poignancy of the Italian working class of the time.
    O tempora, o mores!    … Expand
  3. asmanraj
    Mar 21, 2020
    0
    Disclaimer: I haven't read the novels this show is based on. I wanted to love this show, but i found it dreadfully boring. I watched the entire first season because I hoped it would get better, but it never did. If we're comparing Italian shows, the first season of Gomorrah was far more engaging.

Awards & Rankings

12
#12 Best TV Season of 2018
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#75 Most Discussed TV Season of 2018
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#5 Most Shared TV Season of 2018

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Metascore
87

Universal acclaim - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Nov 26, 2018
    90
    With a sensationally authentic cast--this unsentimental story movingly depicts emotional resilience in changing times. [26 Nov - 9 Dec 2018, p.9]
  2. Boston Herald
    Reviewed by: Mark A. Perigard
    Nov 19, 2018
    100
    My Brilliant Friend is presented in Italian with subtitles. Don’t let that scare you off. Take the journey. Amid the brutality, an intimacy and honesty unlike any other flourishes.
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  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    Nov 19, 2018
    70
    It takes awhile to catch fire, and for a viewer even to get his bearings, so numerous are its characters; but it does, and you will.
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