<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The Italian drama series</span><em> My Brilliant Friend </em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">returns for a third season, based on </span><em>Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, the third book in author Elena Ferrante's bestselling </span><em>Neapolitan Novels</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> series, which follows the coming-of-age story of two young women growing up on the outskirts of Naples during the latter half of the 20th century.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 3 picks up with Lila (Gaia Girace) raising her young son alone and working in a factory under the toughest of conditions, while Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) has authored a successful novel. As they each navigate life's hopes and uncertainties, Elena and Lila remain united by their ambivalent yet undeniable bond.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Season 3 has a 100% critics' rating on </span><em>Rotten Tomatoes</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, with </span><em>AV Club</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> praising it as "one of the most honest, unsentimental depictions of friendship - female or otherwise - in either literature or television." The series has been nominated for a Peabody Award, a Critics Choice Award and three Italian Golden Globes, where it won Best Breakthrough Actress for Ludovica Nasti.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">The fourth and final season, based on the final novel in Ferrante's series, </span><em>The Story of the Lost Child</em><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">, was recently greenlit. </span></div>