Genre: TV Series
Grade: A-/B+
Notable People: Gaia Girace, Margherita Mazzucco, Created by Saverio Costanzo
Title: My Beautiful Friend
Grade: Based on the first of four wildly popular “ Neapolitan” novels by Elena Ferrante, the series follows the lives of two girls in post second world war Italy. Fraught with backdrops of post war chaos, the rise of fascism and the local pallor of the Mafia, the how covers four decades in their lives. The extreme loyalties, conflicts and complicated friendships of the times and of the Sicilian temperament, make for unusual scripts. The acting is excellent, the setting exotic and the story lines captivating, though very slow moving- more cerebral than action. Can be very depressing at times, but overall, quite worth the watch.