The fourth and last TV adaptation of
Elena Ferrante's Mt Brilliant Friend quartet of Neapolitan
novels has made the New York Times top ten of "TV to love" in
2024.
"It's a mystery to me why the hypnotic adaptation of Elena
Ferrante's hugely popular novels has never built a big audience
here in the United States," writes James Poniewozik, the
newspaper's television critic, according to whom the Rai-HBO
production "is a marvel from start to finish".
The fourth and final season of the tetralogy, Story Of The New
Name, had its world premiere in August at the MoMA as part of
the Tribeca Film Festival.
In Italy it has been broadcast on Rai 1 since November 11.
The saga follows the lives of Elena Greco and her best friend
Raffaella, 'Lila' Cerullo, in a tale that spans sixty years of
personal and Italian history.
The fourth part delves into the two protagonists' adult years
when, between motherhood, betrayals, threats, disappearances and
natural disasters, Lenù and Lila find themselves once again
living in the same neighborhood.
The New York Times notes that there has been a lot of "good
television" this year, but that My Brilliant Friend and the
other shows in the top ten are the kind of "TV to love."
Also making the list are English Teacher, Fantasmas, the Jerrod
Carmichael Reality Show, John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in
L.A, Say Nothing, Shogun, Somebody Somewhere and Peacock's
coverage of the Paris Olympics.
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