In the first episode of season three, Lenu, now in her 20s, is far from the dust and grime of her childhood apartment complex. Lenu climbs her way out of poverty, using her intelligence and educational opportunities while Lila descends into an arduous life as a teenage bride and young mother. In the second season, Lenu and Lila’s lives diverge. She and her best friend, Lila (Gaia Girace), bury themselves in the world of books to escape the violence that surrounds them. A clever girl, Lenu tries to make sense of the despair and disarray around her. In the first season, the protagonist, Lenu (Margherita Mazzucco), is a little girl living in a Neapolitan slum in the 1950s and 60s. Ferrante has a writing credit on the show and the lyrical reveries of her characters translate perfectly to the screen. The show, filmed in Italy, has followed the same timeline as the novels, with each season dedicated to a book. The first of Ferrante’s “The Neapolitan Novels” was published in 2012 and shares a name with its TV adaptation. But Ferrante’s melancholia beams through the screen and leaves the viewer with a beautiful and aching sense of loss. The show’s third season, which premiered on Monday night after a two-year wait, forwent some of its rustic luster for modern shine. The girl who adorned the pages of Elena Ferrante’s first two books in the “Neapolitan quartet” and the first two seasons of HBO’s Italian-language drama “My Brilliant Friend” is now a published author and fiancé. Lenu, the show’s protagonist, narrating the series as an older version of her self, struggles through life alongside her childhood best friend, Lila.
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