My Brilliant Friend, Season 2

Based on Elena Ferrante's second book of her four-part series, Season 2 begins where the first season left off, with Lila (Gaia Girace) newly—and unhappily—married to upper crust grocer Stefano Carracci (Giovanni Amura) and Elena (Margherita Mazzucco) unsure of her future. During a holiday in Ischia, the two girls reunite with their old childhood acquaintance, Nino Sarratore (Francesco Serpico). The seemingly random encounter will forever change the nature of their bond, propelling the girls into different worlds: Lila becomes a skillful sales assistant in an elegant shoe shop in central Naples, and Elena obstinately continues her studies. As their worlds expand and they're forced to deal with more complex problems, Elena and Lila fight to find their place in the rapidly changing Italy of the 1960s, while their fraught relationship continues to vacillate between love and contempt.