'My Brilliant Friend': Now that Lenu is spending the summer without Lila, here's what awaits her
Lila hogged the limelight in the fifth episode when she and Lenu, along with their neighborhood friends stepped out into the buzzing cosmopolitan town, an entirely different world from their tiny neighborhood in Naples. HBO's adaptation of the first book of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, 'My Brilliant Friend', follows the plight of two young girls whose friendship is put to test not just by the feud in the neighborhood between the rich and the poor, but by also how the brilliance of one friend is perceived as a threat to the intellect by the other friend. Starring Margherita Mazzucco (as Elena/Lenu) and Gaia Girace (as Raffaella/Lila), the Saverio Costanzo-created show is set against the dangerous but fascinating Naples, Italy, in the 1950s.