My Brilliant Friend Season 3 Teases Dark Times Ahead

My Brilliant Friend is one of the best book-to-screen adaptations I’ve ever seen. It does justice to Elena Ferrante’s gorgeous, violent, emotionally dense story about Elena and Lila, two girls growing up in post-war Naples, by elevating the story with New Wave-style shots of Italian landscapes and quiet, vulnerable moments from its stars Gaia Gerace (Lila) and Margherita Mazzucco (Elena), who bring the subtext of the emotional story to life by simply glancing at each other. Seasons 1 and 2 correspond to the first and second books of Ferrante’s four-book Neapolitan Series, which follows Lila and Elena and their divergent… Read Full Article