The BEST episodes of My Brilliant Friend
Every episode of My Brilliant Friend ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of My Brilliant Friend!
A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.
#1 - Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/18/2022
Elena and Pietro meet Nino's family. Nino gives Elena his feedback on the manuscript, when he discovers that Pietro has not read it he shows hostility towards her, but in a veiled and underhanded way. Pietro's reaction to Nino's passive-aggressive attacks only confirms Elena's doubts about her husband.
#2 - Try Again
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/11/2022
Elena's marriage is more and more in crisis, Pietro is distant and she feels treated like a servant. One day, Nino Sarratore shows up at the Airota's door. He and Pietro become friends and say goodbye with the promise to meet again. Elena anxiously awaits their next meeting and finally resumes writing.
#3 - Indecencies
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/28/2022
At her book presentation in Milan, Elena unexpectedly meets Nino. At dinner she realises her infatuation for him has never abandoned her and begins to have doubts on her fiancé Pietro.
#4 - Restitution
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/2024
After learning that Pasquale and Nadia have been arrested, Lila informs Elena that Gennaro has run away. Though Lila is unphased, Elena tries to manage the crisis when she learns Elsa has gone with him as well. Many years later, Lila manages to surprise her friend yet again.
#5 - The Fever
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/7/2022
Pietro is in Naples to meet his future in-laws. Elena is very nervous, but her betrothed and the Greco family get along well. Her mother complains and tries to get Elena to change her mind about the civil ceremony. Lila sends for Elena.
#6 - The Treatment
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/14/2022
Lila's health is getting worse; her job at the Soccavo plant is burning her out. Elena asks her in-laws to help out; they encourage her to write an exposé to the papers, which ends up stirring up tensions in the unions.
#7 - Cold War
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/21/2022
Elena and Lila face difficulties obtaining prescriptions for the contraceptive pill. Adele surprises Elena with an unexpected reception on her wedding day.
#8 - Terror
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/28/2022
Elena embraces the feminist cause and has a disagreement with Pietro about it. Pasquale and Nadia arrive unexpectedly at Elena's home in Florence. They are dirty, rude, and neglected. Pasquale relates to Pietro with hostility. After their departure Pietro and Elena quarrel: he doesn't want something like that to happen again.
#9 - Becoming
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/4/2022
On holiday, little Gennaro often quarrels with Elena's daughters, she remains tolerant until she catches them playing doctor. In a phone call with Lila, Elena learns that her sister Elisa is dating Marcello Solara. Baffled, she travels to Naples to discuss the matter with her in person.
#10 - The Separation
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/2024
Elena considers moving back to Naples after being chastised by both Immacolata and Adele. Lila shares shocking news about Nino.
#11 - The Dispersion
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/2024
Unable to forgive Nino’s betrayal, Elena takes Dede and Elsa to stay in Milan with Mariarosa and Franco. Following a tragic event, Elena gives in and moves into Nino’s place in Via Petrarca.
#12 - Compromises
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/2024
After Elena returns from a trip to New York, she and Lila share news that they are both pregnant.
#14 - The Fracture
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/2024
After her daughter is born, Elena is consumed with jealousy when Nino and Lila step in to take Immacolata to the hospital.
#15 - The Cheat
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/2024
After a tragic loss and stunned by Nino's actions yet again, Elena takes refuge at Lila's and finally learns the truth about him.
#16 - The Return
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/2024
Still reeling from her break with Nino, Elena learns that her new book is a success... but it could land her in the Solaras' crosshairs.
#17 - The Investigation
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/2024
After Elena discovers that Carmen has been pressured into suing her for slander, she and Lila decide to work together on an exposé of the Solaras’ affairs. Later, Elena learns that their article may not be enough to put the brothers behind bars.
#18 - The Disappearance
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/2024
When a child disappears from the neighborhood, suspicion falls on the Solaras, while Lila becomes consumed by her own conspiracies.
#19 - The Blue Fairy
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/4/2020
Elena graduates university, meets a man from a nice family and returns to Naples. When she returns home she is told that Lila left home with her son. While in Pisa Elena wrote a novel based on her life.
#20 - Ghosts
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2020
Elena enjoys her life as a student in Pisa. When she is sick she reads the notebooks Lila gave her during her visit to Naples, and learns what Lila has gone through during the years.
#21 - Rage
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2020
Following the vacation in Ischia Elena disconnects from Lila and Nino. Lila decides she cannot go on with her life, so she leaves Stefano and moves in with Nino. Elena travels to Pisa for her university studies. Antonio returns broken from him military service and looks for work.
#22 - The Betrayal
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/13/2020
Lila and Nino get dangerously close to each other during the summer vacation in Ischia. This breaks Lenu's heart, feeling twice betrayed.
#23 - The Kiss
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/6/2020
On Lila's request, Lenu joins her and Pinuccia at Ischia for the summer. They meet Nino Sarratore, and both are attracted to him.
#24 - Erasure
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/2020
Lila continues to hold a grudge against Stefano as the shoe shop opens and she goes to work at his new grocery store; Elena brings Lila to a party at her teacher's home.
#25 - The Body
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/23/2020
Antonio is mad as Lenu for trying to stop his draft to the army. Stefano hits Lila and opens his heart to Lenu. Lila is mad at Lenu for trying to reconcile Stefano and her.