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My Brilliant Friend Series-Finale Recap: Mothers and Daughters
After all these years, the relationship between Lenù and Lila is still a mystery.
Seeing on Lenù’s wrist Immacolata’s bracelet, which she had finally gotten back from the jeweler’s along with a posthumous note from Marcello — “I’m sorry,” it reads, in a rounded, grammar school script — Lila tells her it’ll bring bad luck. Already a teenager, Imma will tell Lenù that Lila has studied Naples with a historian’s zeal, learning the myths and legends that lurk underneath the old buildings, filling in every nook and cranny of the city with narrative. It seems like an absurdly sweet deal to me and not an earned one; I thought Lenù was easy on Elsa, sparing her a talk about the way she betrayed her sister or about what she needs in order for home to feel like a refuge rather than a prison.
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