“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 Poniewozik, 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 neighbourhood.
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, 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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