The Brilliant Friend: what will happen in the last season (with Alba Rohrwacher)

The article contains spoilers on the fourth and final season of L’Amica Geniale

«Starting from October 1976 and until I returned to live in Naples in 1979, I avoided re-establishing stable relations with Lila. But it wasn’t easy. She tried almost immediately to forcefully re-enter my life and I ignored her, tolerated her, endured her ». That’s how she starts Story of the lost child, the fourth and last chapter of the quadrilogy de The Brilliant Friend published by Edizioni E / O and which will also put an end to the TV series produced by Fandango, The Apartment, Fremantle and Wildside in collaboration with Rai Fiction and with HBO Entertainment, an audience champion and a harbinger of appreciation from all over the world. After the shocking ending to say the least History of those who flee and those who remain, with Lenù who messes up his life and his family by flying to France with Nino Sarratore, the only man who has ever really loved at the expense of us who we thought it was logical to run away from him as far as possible, the curiosity to discover what will happen to it The Brilliant Friend 4, which will tell the story of Lila and Lenù up to the present day and who will see, how The Crown, the switch of all the actors to get closer to the age of their characters, is a lot. We, using Elena Ferrante’s book, will answer you, as long as you accept an avalanche of spoilers that compared to those of game of Thrones they were a tingle in the foot.

Story of the lost child it will resume where it left off History of those who flee and those who remain: with Lenù and Nino in France and the hope that their union will be happy and full of grace. Being Nino Sarratore, however, it could only end in tragedy, and we, who see each other for a long time unlike Lenù, understood it immediately: Lenù discovers, in fact, that Nino has not really left his wife Eleonora as he had told her, however, deciding to stay with him and return to Naples to be close to him. Also because, during their trip to New York, the woman, that in the last season of The Brilliant Friend will be played by Alba Rohrwacher, Elena’s narrator since the first episode broadcast on Rai1 in 2018, she will discover that she is pregnant with a child. She will decide to call her Immaculate to honor her mother who, shortly after her, will die of cancer, but not before her, however, she will allow Lenù to get closer to her, healing a stormy relationship since she was little . The torments for the protagonist are not, however, over, since – who would have thought? – Nino constantly betrays her, which will lead her to move back to the Rione, in the apartment above Lila’s, in the meantime she too became the mother of little Annunziatahad with the only positive male hero de The Brilliant Friend: Enzo Scanno. In a few months the relationship between the two friends becomes even closer to the point, on the occasion of Michele Solara’s threats addressed to them during the funeral of Alfonso Carracci, beaten to death because homosexual, to write an article of denunciation against the Solara and the heroin trafficking of which they are despots and masters.

Rino, Lila’s brother who will die of an overdose, also ends up in the drug business, and GennaroLila’s son, initiated into substances by his uncle but pulled out in time by Enzo who, although not his biological father, will do everything to save him before it’s too late. The crucial point of the fourth book and, consequently, of the fourth and final season of The Brilliant Friend is linked to a particular date: September 16, 1984. That day, in fact, Tina, the daughter of Lila and Enzo, mysteriously disappears into thin air after being around with Elena and Nino’s daughter. In the district there is talk of a muddy truck that would take her away forever, even if Lila doesn’t believe this version. Enzo, mad with grief, is convinced that it was the Solaras, while Lila seems convinced that her little girl is still alive and that sooner or later he will return to her. The disappearance of Nina, which gives the book its title, leads Lila to an emotional breakdown that will push her to leave Enzo and develop a sick and distorted thought: disappear from the face of the earth like her little girl.