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My Brilliant Friend · Season 1 · HBO

My Brilliant Friend Season 1

My Brilliant Friend Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.0/10. 8 episodes on HBO from 18 November 2018.

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BollyMeter9.0/10A 93 percent Rotten Tomatoes score from 57 reviews and an 87 Metacritic (based on 20 critics) reflect near-universal acclaim for a prestige adaptation that honors Ferrante's interiority without sacrificing visual immediacy.

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What BollyAI Thinks

The first season premiered on HBO in November 2018 and was immediately positioned alongside the best prestige drama of the decade. Filmed entirely in Neapolitan dialect with non-professional child actors, it won the Monte-Carlo Television Festival Best Drama Series award. Critics clustered on two things: the visual sumptuousness of transforming a desolate 1950s rione into something cinematically ravishing, and the precision with which Saverio Costanzo translated Ferrante's interior female friendship onto the screen. The RT consensus called it 'an expansive epic that gleans rapturous beauty from the most desolate of circumstances.' The Wall Street Journal called it a masterwork. The 93 percent score from 57 critics and the 87 Metacritic make it one of the best-received HBO dramas of its era.

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93%critics positive · n=579.1/10Rotten Tomatoes Audience audience
  • “This masterwork from HBO isn't the sort whose powers depend on the suspense of plot turns. Every chapter is a profoundly moving world unto itself.”
    Wall Street Journal
  • “This is a great show with a huge heart. Just be prepared for it to break yours every now and then.”
    Rolling Stone

Standout Episodes

The hours worth arguing about — premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.

  1. E1The Dolls9.0

    The premiere establishes the show's formal ambition immediately - Neapolitan dialect, non-professional child actors, and a visual grammar shaped by poverty rather than period nostalgia. Elena and Lila's childhood friendship is established with an economy that makes every shot feel loaded. The scene of the two girls descending into Don Achille's cellar is unforgettable.

    The moment: Elena and Lila's dare to descend the cellar stairs - the moment that crystallises the difference between the two girls that will define their entire lives.

    “An expansive epic that gleans rapturous beauty from the most desolate of circumstances.” — Rotten Tomatoes Critic Consensus