This conversation includes spoilers for the first season of “My Brilliant Friend.”When Saverio Costanzo, the director of HBO’s “My Brilliant Friend,” wanted to cut the story’s final wedding scene, Elena Ferrante pushed back, saying it was the scene she initially imagined when she wrote her four-part series of Neapolitan novels, of which “My Brilliant Friend” is the first. The scene’s inclusion makes a fitting ending to a season that has not strayed far from its source material. Lila advanced her plan to make and sell expensive shoes with her brother; Lenù returns from Ischia for further adventures in school. [Read our critics’ list of the year’s best TV including new series, streaming and foreign fare.] Lenù has her boyfriend Antonio warn off Donato Sarratore without having to explain that Sarratore assaulted her.

Source: New York Times December 11, 2018 04:01 UTC