My Brilliant Friend 2018

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

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    Season 1

    2018

    8 episodes

    Season 1 of My Brilliant Friend premiered on November 27, 2018.

    Based on the international best-selling novel, when the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, starts writing the story of their friendship.

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    The Story of a New Name

    2020

    8 episodes

    Season 2 of My Brilliant Friend premiered on February 10, 2020.

    Based on the second book of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet, 'The Story of a New Name', this second series sees Lila And Elena both feeling dissatisfied with their lives. Longing for escapism, a trip away threatens to destroy the very nature of their friendship and sends the two young women into very different worlds.

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    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    2022

    8 episodes

    Season 3 of My Brilliant Friend premiered on February 6, 2022.

    Season 3 picks up with Elena and Lila, both now grown women, during the great open sea of the 1970s. Lila took her young son and left her husband and a comfortable life to work as a factory worker in the toughest of conditions, while Elena left the neighborhood to study in Pisa, and is now an author of a successful novel that has paved the way to an affluent and cultivated world. They now navigate a scenario of hopes and uncertainties, still united by their strong and ambivalent bond.

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    The Story of the Lost Child

    2024

    10 episodes

    Season 4 of My Brilliant Friend premiered on November 11, 2024.