Three episodes into “My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Name” comes a scene as lovely and understated as it is pointed and bruising, a combination in which the show specializes, especial…
’s Italian adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels about Elena, Lila, the fierce and complex friendship between them extending from the 1950s through the present, and the tiny Naples town they more and more reluctantly call home. Ferrante’s writing is dense with detail, straightforward and yet prone to underlining metaphorical allusions.
When Ferrante’s novels were first published, starting with “My Brilliant Friend” in 2011, they gained a devoted following of largely women readers who appreciated Ferrante’s attention to the thornier aspects of close female friendship —jealousy, codependence, resentment — as well as its many particular joys.
In its first season, “My Brilliant Friend” followed Ferrante’s first book in depicting their childhood and early adolescence, painting an almost impressionistic picture. In this second season, based on “The Story of a New Name,” the series reveals with more ambitious scope and often jarring clarity just how Elena and Lila, well into their teenage years, are forced to grow up — and then, despite themselves, forced apart.
While the drama takes pains to balance the story between Elena and Lila, the trajectory of “The Story of a New Name” means that Season 2 almost entirely belongs to Lila . Picking up shortly after her disastrous wedding night, Lila spends much of the time trapped in an abusive marriage to Stefano , a social-climbing businessman whose general sense of powerlessness manifests in bursts of rage when she refuses to fall in line.
Because as compelling as Lila is, it’s Elena’s narration that drives the series. Her struggle with her passive nature is a huge thread of her overall journey, but it often makes her a frustrating conduit . Her tendency to observe her surroundings rather than meaningfully interact with them, however, also makes being in her head an illuminating experience. Through Elena’s eyes , we have to give her world as much consideration as she does. We feel her fear, her love, her joy.
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