This isn’t a series about girls escaping into womanhood, but women shackled to their origins. No one leaves for good no one stays the same. But the casting works so beautifully because those categories are collapsible or, worse, imaginary.
Season 3 of the HBO drama is subtitled “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay” after the Elena Ferrante novel it’s based on, the third in her Neapolitan Quartet. The passage of time is instead marked on their bodies: pregnancies, sicknesses, and bruises that bloom and yellow across the episodes modish fashions and haircuts. The 18-year-olds who played Lila and Lenù as teenagers in the first season of “ My Brilliant Friend” continue to play them as the women approach 30, their complexions as smooth as their formica kitchens.
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