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.

My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is an Italian-American drama television miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Elena Ferrante. It is the first of four novels in the Neapolitan Novels series to be adapted for television. An eight-episode miniseries, My Brilliant Friend is a co-production between American premium cable network HBO and Italian networks RAI and TIMvision. It premiered on HBO on November 18, 2018.A follow-up miniseries, based on Ferrante's second Neapolitan Novel, "The Story of a New Name", was confirmed in December 2018.


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Archived Episodes
Date Time Season Episode
Feb. 27, 2022 9 p.m. 3 8
Feb. 27, 2022 9 p.m. 3 7
Feb. 20, 2022 9 p.m. 3 6
Feb. 20, 2022 9 p.m. 3 5
Feb. 13, 2022 9 p.m. 3 4
Feb. 13, 2022 9 p.m. 3 3
Feb. 6, 2022 9 p.m. 3 2
Feb. 6, 2022 9 p.m. 3 1
March 2, 2020 9 p.m. 2 8
March 2, 2020 9 p.m. 2 7
Feb. 24, 2020 9 p.m. 2 6
Feb. 24, 2020 9 p.m. 2 5
Feb. 17, 2020 9 p.m. 2 4
Feb. 17, 2020 9 p.m. 2 3
Feb. 10, 2020 9 p.m. 2 2
Feb. 10, 2020 9 p.m. 2 1
Dec. 10, 2018 9 p.m. 1 8
Dec. 9, 2018 9 p.m. 1 7
Dec. 3, 2018 9 p.m. 1 6
Dec. 2, 2018 9 p.m. 1 5
Nov. 26, 2018 9 p.m. 1 4
Nov. 25, 2018 9 p.m. 1 3
Nov. 19, 2018 9 p.m. 1 2
Nov. 18, 2018 9 p.m. 1 1