The vicious feuds between the neighborhood’s rival mobsters, as well as the lingering post-war hostility between the Communists and the fascists, were important world-building, but also overshadowed Elena and Lila’s comparatively uneventful girlhoods while being seldom compelling enough as their own storylines.īut with season two, subtitled The Story of a New Name, the series transitions fully from anthropology to fiction. Its central tale of two girl friends, whose relationship was marked by obstinate loyalty to and ineradicable competition with one another, was often obscured by the TV drama’s focus on male violence - against wives, children, but most of all each other. At least from the perspective of 21st-century America, My Brilliant Friend‘s debut season also felt like something of an ethnography.
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