The BEST seasons of My Brilliant Friend
Every season of My Brilliant Friend ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best seasons 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 - Season 1
First Aired 11/18/2018
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.
#2 - The Story of a New Name
First Aired 2/10/2020
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.
#3 - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
First Aired 2/6/2022
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.