Show+Tell With Paul Flynn

The complex layers of female relationships are expertly peeled back in the utterly engrossing My Brilliant Friend.

- Paul Flynn

THE TV ADAPTATION of Elena Ferrante’s wildly successful, resoundingly amazing novel My Brilliant Friend – the first in her quartet of Neapolitan novels – opens with a mobile phone ringing, lighting up a black screen. The light it casts, much like the shadowy recesses of communication that Ferrante is interested in, dapples out across the picture. If you are looking for a thoughtful, stylish television fix, you’ve found it.