My Brilliant Friend

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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