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TV | My Brilliant Friend:

The Story of a New Name

A fresh, challenging chapter in the lives of Lila and Lenù

DRAMASeason 2 of this adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s series of

Neapolitan novels takes its subtitle from the second book. The new

name belongs to headstrong, inscrutable Lila (Gaia Girace): She’s

married the awful Stefano Carracci (Giovanni Amura) with no

anticipation of fulfillment. Back from the honeymoon, she meets

her friend Lenù (Margherita Mazzucco) and reveals an eye blacked

from a beating. This brutal shock strengthens her often frayed

relationship with Lenù: The young women exist in some sensitive,

nebulous state between soulmates and frenemies—a mystery that

gives the narrative its power. (HBO, Mondays, 10 p.m.)

Girace

(left) and

Mazzucco

HULU | Big Time Adolescence

COMEDYSaturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson plays a feckless

passive-aggressive man-child who sets one bad example

after another for his buddy, 16-year-old high school student

Mo (Griffin Gluck). Time doesn’t quite explain why Mo

would gravitate to this loser—especially since Gluck is

unerringly, incorruptibly sincere—but the film’s deadpan

humor is nicely sustained. (Streaming now)

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