My Brilliant Friend is still brilliant in Season 3

The Washington Post

"The production and scenery are gorgeous; the score (by Max Richter) lush and haunting; the direction grand, immersive and occasionally hallucinatory; the performances seldom not pitch-perfect," says Inkoo Kang. "But the real draws — the qualities that make the show feel like none other on television — are the minute-by-minute specificity of its characters and its incomparable sense of lives lived and times changing, of doors slamming shut and new ones appearing out of thin air. Through it all there’s Lila and Lenu’s relationship, its waxes and wanes necessary to sustain it, but which nonetheless matures as both women marry, have children and wonder how they’ll ever feel like they’ve escaped enough."

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