Category: My Brilliant Friend

This should not become any sort of surprise as we have known from the start that MY BRILLIANT FRIEND was to be a four-season venture. Though it has

The season finale of My Brilliant Friend opens with Lenu’s academic advisor reviewing her senior thesis, the last assignment before graduation. The advisor is laudatory and genuinely proud

The penultimate episode of this HBO & Rai collaboration continues to give us awe-inspiring storytelling.  Acting and razor-sharp teleplays have been hallmarks of My Brilliant Friend; now, directing

This week’s entry of My Brilliant Friend carries over the dark tone of the previous episode.  “Rage,” an unequivocally appropriate episode name, opens with the death of Giuseppina

Being a voracious reader, I take pride in finding the time to read the source material of adaptations before or during their original airings.  Unfortunately, this was not

Reaching the midway point of the season, we celebrate Rino (Gennaro de Stefano) and Pinnucia’s (Federica Sollazzo) wedding and she’s visibly showing by that point.  When an old

We come back this episode to see pregnant Lila (Gaia Girace) busting butt in the new grocery store. She won’t let anyone doing anything. I suspect she’s trying

This episode picks right up after the last with Lila (Gaia Girace) preparing herself to tussle with the Solara brothers (Elvis Esposito, Alessio Gallo) and Elena (Margherita Mazzucco)

The Italian book series adaptation by Elena Ferrante returns to HBO with the premiere of the second season. I quickly fell in love with the story of female

HBO returns to the world of Elena and Lila in their continuing story from the works of Elena Ferrante. Part II, MY BRILLIANT FRIEND: THE STORY OF A NEW NAME, debuts Monday,

Straight from an HBO press release comes news that the parties involved will continue the epic story that is based on the four-part novel series called the Neapolitan Novels by author Elena Ferrante.   HBO and RAI

Based on the work of the same title, the HBO series follows the story of two women from the beginning of their friendship. My Brilliant Friend is part

There seems to be growing buzz about the RAI/HBO co-production MY BRILLIANT FRIEND. We’ve remarked on it twice here. First, we announced the cinematic adaptation of the Elena

Back in March of ’17 we announced that a limited series going by the name of SHIBDEN HALL was in development. We have heard news about progress on