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The excellent and gorgeous TV adaptation of the Elena Ferrante books is coming to a close with a whole new cast
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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