My Brilliant Friend

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 18, 2018
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.3

Universal acclaim- based on 39 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 33 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 39
  3. Negative: 3 out of 39
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Metascore
92

Universal acclaim - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Rebecca Nicholson
    Jun 22, 2020
    100
    My Brilliant Friend is absorbing, gripping television that demands that you sink into it completely, closing off all distractions.
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  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Mar 26, 2020
    90
    The dramas that play out range from the brutal to the more purely psychological, and all of them are compelling, not least of all thanks to the lead actresses’ stunning performances.
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  3. Wall Street Journal
    Reviewed by: Nancy DeWolf Smith
    Mar 19, 2020
    100
    "My Brilliant Friend" has returned for a second season more affecting, in an alarming way, than the first, though in every way just as impressive in its penetrating portraiture of Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila (Gaia Girace), the friends at the center of this tale set in 1950s Naples, based on Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.
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