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My Brilliant Friend Recap: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too


Lenù finally snaps back to reality and tries to put her life together.

“The Dispersion” opens on Nino showing her a massive apartment with a phenomenal view of the ocean which he has just picked out for them, and for which he plans on paying with the riches of his important new job, the one Lila told Lenù about at the café. He accuses Lenù and Mariarosa of being irresponsible for taking the girls out of an environment where they had a routine, discipline, and method and plunging them into a house with no rules or responsibilities, where they can stay up talking all night and not have to go to school the next day. So far, the direction of the show has found inventive ways to signal the passage of time — real news footage last week, for example, or even just a cleaner cut from the nightmare to the apartment this same episode — and the dissolves felt kind of like an after-thought.

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