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My Brilliant Friend Recap: Everything Is Embarrassing
Nino’s spell over Lenù is finally broken, and everything else in her life comes rushing forward.
When Lenù returns home from Lila’s to an empty apartment after catching Nino having sex with Silvana, humiliated and determined to free herself from him for good, Antonio stops by. Earlier in the episode, Antonio explains that he didn’t tell Lenù about Nino’s infidelities sooner because this kind of knowledge requires the right conditions of temperature and pressure to be meaningful. Lenù muses that though Lila has long billed herself as a paragon of change for the neighborhood, the vocabulary of violence is what she’s fluent in, and she uses many of the same methods mastered by the Solaras to wrest people under her control.
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