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My Brilliant Friend Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (2022)

8 Episodes February 2022 57 min

Season 3 picks up with Elena and Lila, both now grown women, during the great open sea of the 1970s. Lila took her young son and left her husband and a comfortable life to work as a factory worker in the toughest of conditions, while Elena left the neighborhood to study in Pisa, and is now an author of a successful novel that has paved the way to an affluent and cultivated world. They now navigate a scenario of hopes and uncertainties, still united by their strong and ambivalent bond.

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S3.E1 - Indecencies

Feb 28, 2022 43 min ✓ Aired
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At her book presentation in Milan, Elena unexpectedly meets Nino. At dinner she realises her infatuation for him has never abandoned her and begins to have doubts on her fiancé Pietro.

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S3.E2 - The Fever

Mar 7, 2022 59 min ✓ Aired
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Pietro is in Naples to meet his future in-laws. Elena is very nervous, but her betrothed and the Greco family get along well. Her mother complains and tries to get Elena to change her mind about the civil ceremony. Lila sends for Elena.

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S3.E3 - The Treatment

Mar 14, 2022 50 min ✓ Aired
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Lila's health is getting worse; her job at the Soccavo plant is burning her out. Elena asks her in-laws to help out; they encourage her to write an exposé to the papers, which ends up stirring up tensions in the unions.

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S3.E4 - Cold War

Mar 21, 2022 54 min ✓ Aired
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Elena and Lila face difficulties obtaining prescriptions for the contraceptive pill. Adele surprises Elena with an unexpected reception on her wedding day.

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S3.E5 - Terror

Mar 28, 2022 53 min ✓ Aired
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Elena embraces the feminist cause and has a disagreement with Pietro about it. Pasquale and Nadia arrive unexpectedly at Elena's home in Florence. They are dirty, rude, and neglected. Pasquale relates to Pietro with hostility. After their departure Pietro and Elena quarrel: he doesn't want something like that to happen again.

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S3.E6 - Becoming

Apr 4, 2022 53 min ✓ Aired
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On holiday, little Gennaro often quarrels with Elena's daughters, she remains tolerant until she catches them playing doctor. In a phone call with Lila, Elena learns that her sister Elisa is dating Marcello Solara. Baffled, she travels to Naples to discuss the matter with her in person.

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S3.E7 - Try Again

Apr 11, 2022 46 min ✓ Aired
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Elena's marriage is more and more in crisis, Pietro is distant and she feels treated like a servant. One day, Nino Sarratore shows up at the Airota's door. He and Pietro become friends and say goodbye with the promise to meet again. Elena anxiously awaits their next meeting and finally resumes writing.

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S3.E8 - Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay

Apr 18, 2022 74 min ✓ Aired
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Elena and Pietro meet Nino's family. Nino gives Elena his feedback on the manuscript, when he discovers that Pietro has not read it he shows hostility towards her, but in a veiled and underhanded way. Pietro's reaction to Nino's passive-aggressive attacks only confirms Elena's doubts about her husband.

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