TV Review: My Brilliant Friend will stand the test of time — there isn't a better show out there right now

The acting by Gaia Girace and Margherita Mazzucco is spell-binding. You just get wrapped up in My Brilliant Friend

My Brilliant Friend is based on the best-selling novel by Elena Ferrante. Pictures: Eduardo Castaldo

I doubt there's a better show out right now than My Brilliant Friend ( Sky Atlantic and the Now TV app.) The third series just dropped and it still feels as fresh and spiky as ever.

Quick recap in case you missed it up to now. My Brilliant Friend is adapted from the hit novels by an Italian writer who goes by the name, Elena Ferrante. It’s about the friendship between two girls, Elena and Lila, who grow up together in a tough suburb of 1950s Naples. Elena breaks out after a fashion, goes to university and writes a popular novel; Lila, ferocious and bright, marries a local hood and ends up working in a sausage factory. They are still tight, even though Lila made off with Nino, the love of Elena’s life.