My Brilliant Friend

Drama2018TV-MA32 episodes4 seasonsScripted

Original Title: L'amica geniale

Tagline: A friendship that defined a lifetime.

First aired: 2018-11-18

Synopsis

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.

Creators

Saverio Costanzo

Casting

  • Gaia Girace
    Lila Cerullo
  • Margherita Mazzucco
    Elena Greco
  • Matteo Cecchi
    Pietro Airota
My Brilliant Friend Season 1 Poster

Season 1

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.

Number of episodes 8

My Brilliant Friend The Story of a New Name Poster

The Story of a New Name

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.

Number of episodes 8

My Brilliant Friend Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay Poster

Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

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.

Number of episodes 8