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- HBO
- Feb 6, 2022
- HBO
- Feb 6, 2022
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.
- HBO
- Feb 6, 2022
- HBO
- Feb 6, 2022
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.
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
96
100% Positive
6 Reviews
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Sublime television. And not a cliffhanger or kitchen island in sight.
This is television at its best and it weaves a spell unlike anything I have seen in a very long time. It demands concentration but rewards it generously.
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7.5
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 User Ratings
7.5
74% Positive
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
7% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
19% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
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.
The still-stellar new season isn’t quite as urgent or consummate as its predecessor, but a turn toward the existential feels absolutely right as the women compare and critique each other’s half-complete journeys toward liberation.
The main reason to love My Brilliant Friend is that it contains one of the most honest, unsentimental depictions of friendship—female or otherwise—in either literature or television.
It is stunning, gorgeously acted and directed and, though it’s still early days, looks likely to be the best series yet. I would have given episode one five stars were it not for the fact that Lenu’s friend, Lila, played by Gaia Girace, wasn’t in it.
The show is the most bingeable of all the European ones that have found our shores, but I don't think it deserves to be in first place over Better Call Saul--not by a long shot. What has always puzzled me is the flat persona of the protagonist. She goes around mostly acting like a robot, seldom a smile or a polite goodbye or any normal kind of acknowledgement. I know Neapolitans are jaded, but come on. But, as I said, bingeable--and good. Ciao, bella!
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SEASON 3
It's funny how Ferrante, considered average at best in Italy and France, is revered in the "anglo-saxon" press. The TV adaptations are even worse. It's so laughably clichéd for any European born before the 80's. I guess middle-class Americans need their fix for exotic settings, and quirky but always predictable story lines, a deep look in the abyss of a "tortured" relationship to excite the mind and....a simple and flat writing style.
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