Image: A Neapolitan girlhood in My Brilliant Friend
My Brilliant Friend (Tuesday, 20 November, 8.30pm, Showcase, Foxtel)
This is certainly one of the most anticipated literary adaptions of the year. The first book in Elena Ferrante’s internationally best-selling quartet has been adapted for TV with this prestige 8-part Italian series. The story of Elena and Lila, two friends who meet as children in a poverty-stricken 1950s Naples covers 60 years of their lives as Elena tries to unravel the mystery of her best friend and sometime enemy.
