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My Brilliant Friend Recap: No Place Like Home
It might be one of the more important moments in Lenù’s life, but she can only think about Nino.
When he leaves the conclusion of a bedtime story for the next night, Elsa protests: “What if you don’t come?” The imminent arrival of their baby also means that Lenù is starting to worry about how Nino, father of a million different neglected children, will act once she gives birth. We were all once harsh on Pietro –– he wasn’t very helpful when, as a young and new mother, Lenù had to take care of the children all night while he worked, shut away in his office; his family’s snotty classism is inexcusable; and he could have picked up a sock every once in a while. The show cleverly plays this up by making Lenù’s tortured fantasies indistinguishable from reality, cutting between her shifting, nervous eyes and what is or might be happening at the hospital: do Lila and Nino really hold hands in the car?
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