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    From The Bear to Pachinko: best TV shows of 2022

    Looking back: the best TV shows of 2022 – The White Lotus, Stranger Things and Pachinko provide an epic year in TV

    From the anxiety-inducing culinary drama The Bear starring Jeremy Allen White to the Korean family saga Pachinko with Youn Yuh-jung, here are the best TV shows of 2022

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    My Brilliant Friend season 3 liberates Elena

    My Brilliant Friend, season 3 episodes 5 - 8, Sky Atlantic review ★★★★★

    07 Apr 22 – 07 Apr 23

    The last four episodes of My Brilliant Friend see Elena's long trail to freedom, as her past returns to both haunt and liberate her

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    TV 

    My Brilliant Friend lashes with patriarchal cruelty

    My Brilliant Friend, season 3, episode 3 & 4, Sky Atlantic review ★★★★★

    24 Mar 22 – 24 Mar 23

    In episodes 3 and 4, Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) continues to care for Lila (Gaia Girace), pays Gigliola (Rosaria Langellotto) a crushing visit, and hits writer's block

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    TV 

    My Brilliant Friend, episode 2: Lila returns!

    My Brilliant Friend, season 3 episode 2, Sky Atlantic review ★★★★★

    17 Mar 22 – 17 Mar 23

    In The Fever, Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) meets Lila (Gaia Girace) in a sweaty, bedbound state. The latter recalls a recent story of a past coming to recapture her

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    TV 

    My Brilliant Friend steps into a new political world

    My Brilliant Friend, season 3 episode 1, Sky Atlantic review ★★★★★

    10 Mar 22 – 10 Mar 23

    The HBO series adaptation of Elena Ferrante's bestselling quartet of novels returns. In season 3, Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) publishes her first novel during a time of global political strife

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    TV 

    My Brilliant Friend is a work of art

    My Brilliant Friend season 2 episode 7 & 8, Sky Atlantic review ★★★★★

    10 Jul 20 – 10 Jul 21

    The story jumps ahead to three years in the future, as Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) prepares to graduate from her course in Pisa. She hasn't visited Naples in over a year

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    A painful examination of unrequited love: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend season 2 episode 5 & 6 review, Sky Atlantic ★★★★★

    03 Jul 20 – 03 Jul 21

    My Brilliant Friend now examines the pains of unrequited love as Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) is made to bear the rising romance between Lila (Gaia Girace) and Nino (Francesco Serpico)

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    Parties, holidays and mansplaining: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend season 2 episode 3 & 4 review, Sky Atlantic ★★★★★

    26 Jun 20 – 26 Jun 21

    Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) tries to upgrade herself into the Neapolitan intelligentsia while trying to score with Nino (Francesco Serpico), which threatens her friendship with Lila (Gaia Girace)

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    My Brilliant Friend, we're glad you're back

    My Brilliant Friend season 2 episodes 1 & 2, Sky Atlantic review ★★★★★

    19 Jun 20 – 19 Jun 21

    Lila (Gaia Girace) and Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) return for the next chapter in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan coming-of-age story, The Story of a New Name

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    This was a great year for TV. From the drug-fuelled misadventures of Patrick Melrose (Benedict Cumberbatch) to the spicy thrills of Bodyguard, here's our 10 best shows of 2018.

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    Wedding bells: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend finale review ★★★★★

    On 11 Dec 18

    In the final episode of My Brilliant Friend, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante, Lila's wedding is on the horizon and Lenù is feeling rebellious

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    TV 

    Taking control: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend episode 7 review ★★★★★

    On 10 Dec 18

    In episode 7 of My Brilliant Friend, adapted from the book by Elena Ferrante, Lila (Gaia Girace) and Lenù (Gaia Girace) take control of their lives again

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    First love: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend episode 6 review ★★★★★

    On 04 Dec 18

    In episode 6 of My Brilliant Friend, adapted from the Elena Ferrante novels, Lenù takes her first solo journey away from home to the island of Ischia

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    TV 

    Colliding worlds: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend episode 5 review ★★★★★

    In episode five of the series adaptation of Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend, Lila and Lenù enter a world completely different from their own... with ambivalent consequences

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    Sins of the Fathers: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend episode 4 review ★★★★★

    In episode 4 of My Brilliant Friend, Dissolving Boundaries, Lenù (Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila (Gaia Girace) are try to form a union between two warring families

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    Puberty is hell: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend episode 3 review ★★★★★

    In episode 3 of My Brilliant Friend, The Metamorphoses, teenagers Lenù (Margherita Mazzucco) and Lila (Gaia Girace) aren't really friends anymore – but something pulls them together

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    Ferrante on screen: My Brilliant Friend

    My Brilliant Friend episode 1 review ★★★★★

    On 19 Nov 18

    The miniseries adaptation of Elena Ferrante's book My Brilliant Friend has finally started on Sky Atlantic. Two girls become lifelong friends amidst the aggressive environment of '50s Naples

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