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.

Last Updated: 11/14/2024Network: HBOStatus: Continuing
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The Story of a New Name
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8.42
100 votes

#1 - 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.

Season 1
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8.40
149 votes

#2 - Season 1

First Aired 11/27/2018

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.

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8.04
73 votes

#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.

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7.89
9 votes

#4 - The Story of the Lost Child

First Aired 11/11/2024