My Brilliant Friend (Italian: L'amica geniale) is an Italian- and Neapolitan-language coming-of-age drama television series created by Saverio Costanzo for HBO, RAI and TIMvision. The first season premiered on HBO on November 18, 2018, and on Rai 1 on February 10, 2020, and HBO on March 16, 2020. A second season, based on Ferrante's second novel, was confirmed in December 2018. In March 2022, the series was renewed for a fourth and final season based on the final novel in the series: The Story of the Lost Child. Elisa Del Genio (season 1, guest season 2), Margherita Mazzucc