My Brilliant Friend Poster

My Brilliant Friend

A friendship that defined a lifetime.

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.

  • Status: Ended
  • Original Language: it
  • In Production: No
  • Number of Seasons: 4
  • Number of Episodes: 34
  • First Air Date: 2018-11-27

Seasons

Season 1 Poster

Season 1: Season 1

Air Date: 2018-11-27

Episode Count: 8

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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Season 2: The Story of a New Name

Air Date: 2020-02-10

Episode Count: 8

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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Season 3: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

Air Date: 2022-02-06

Episode Count: 8

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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Season 4: The Story of the Lost Child

Air Date: 2024-11-11

Episode Count: 10

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