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My Brilliant Friend

Original title: L'amica geniale

“A friendship that defined a lifetime.”

  • 2018 –2024
  • Ended
  • TV-MA

★ 8.1 TMDB Rating · 245 votes

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

Created by
Saverio Costanzo
Seasons
4
Episodes
34
Episode length
~57m
First aired
Nov 27, 2018
Networks
Rai 1
Original language
Italian
Origin
Italy

Cast of My Brilliant Friend

  • Portrait of Alba Rohrwacher

    Alba Rohrwacher

    Elena Greco

  • Portrait of Irene Maiorino

    Irene Maiorino

    Lila Cerullo

  • Portrait of Fabrizio Gifuni

    Fabrizio Gifuni

    Nino Sarratore

  • Filippo Beltrami

    Moreno

Where to Stream My Brilliant Friend by Country

United States
Streaming on MaxRent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies
United Kingdom
Streaming on Sky GoRent or buy on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
India
No streaming offers listed right now
Canada
Streaming on iciTouTV, Crave, Club IllicoRent or buy on Apple TV Store
Australia
Streaming on SBS On DemandRent or buy on Apple TV Store, Fetch TV

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Seasons

  • Poster for Season 1 of My Brilliant Friend

    Season 1

    Nov 27, 2018

    8 episodes

    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.

  • Poster for The Story of a New Name of My Brilliant Friend

    The Story of a New Name

    Feb 10, 2020

    8 episodes

    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.

  • Poster for Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay of My Brilliant Friend

    Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

    Feb 6, 2022

    8 episodes

    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.

  • Poster for The Story of the Lost Child of My Brilliant Friend

    The Story of the Lost Child

    Nov 11, 2024

    10 episodes

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