My Brilliant Friend
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Lilas life her familial battles, romantic entanglements, defiant nature, untapped intellect is the centerpiece.
But her return to thequartiereflips that focus back to Lila.
Did the teachers friend kick you out?
assuming she must have done something wrong if shes home early) are unexpectedly reassuring.
Of course, while Elena has been off in Ischia, Lilas life has gone on, too.
But the moment is so uncomfortable.
The island faded, she says, to make way for what was happening to Lila.
Lila and Stefanos relationship is as unlikely as they come.
Hes the son of Don Achille, a man who terrorized their neighborhood.
Of course, he denies this.
Marcello has a fancy little car, so Stefano buys a fancier one.
Marcello considered the Cerullos shoes, so now Stefano has shown up to buy them.
(Funnily enough, the size 43 was too tight for Marcello and now too loose for Stefano.
Did the Cerullos stretch them too soon?)
Marcellos already tried to buy me every way possible, Lila says.
But nobody can buy me.
Yet Stefano does just that.
So why does Lila fall for it, and for him?
The answer, I fear, is a bit disheartening.
But first, she has to dispense with Marcello.
Everything in this scene flashedDanger!
Danger!,from the way Lila lures him out for an unlikely gelato (Before dinner?
For a man like Marcello, pride is everything.
Against this backdrop of chaos, Elena is sorting out her own romantic confusion.
The show would do well to stand by that premise.
