Season 2

The second season of television series My Brilliant Friend, titled My Brilliant Friend: The Story of a New Name (Italian: L'amica geniale: Storia del nuovo cognome), adapts the second novel in Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan series.

The season aired from February 10 to March 2, 2020 on Rai 1 in Italy. In the United States, it premiered on March 16 on HBO and is set to air weekly until May 4, 2020. The first two episodes were released in Italian cinemas from January 27–29, 2020.

Synopsis
The second season follows the girls on a vacation to Ischia and and down divergent paths, as Lila runs a shoe store in Naples and Elena returns to school in Pisa.

Main Cast

 * Margherita Mazzucco as Elena "Lenù" Greco
 * Alba Rohrwacher narrates the events from the point of view of adult Elena Greco.
 * Gaia Girace as Raffaella "Lila" Cerullo
 * Anna Rita Vitolo as Immacolata Greco
 * Luca Gallone as Vittorio Greco
 * Imma Villa as Manuela Solara
 * Alessio Gallo as Michele Solara
 * Valentina Acca as Nunzia Cerullo
 * Antonio Buonanno as Fernando Cerullo
 * Dora Romano as Miss Oliviero
 * Nunzia Schiano as Nella Incardo
 * Giovanni Amura as Stefano Carracci
 * Gennaro De Stefano as Rino Cerullo
 * Francesco Serpico as Nino Sarratore
 * Federica Sollazzo as Pinuccia Carracci
 * Clotilde Sabatino as Professor Galiani
 * Ulrike Migliaresi as Ada Cappuccio
 * Christian Giroso as Antonio Cappuccio
 * Eduardo Scarpetta as Pasquale Peluso
 * Giovanni Buselli as Enzo Scanno
 * Giovanni Cannata as Armando Galiani
 * Francesco Russo as Bruno Soccavo
 * Bruno Orlando as Franco Mari
 * Daria Deflorian as Adele Airota
 * Matteo Cecchi as Pietro Airota

Episodes

 * 2.01: "The New Name" ("Il nuovo cognome")
 * 2.02: "The Body" ("Il corpo")
 * 2.03: "Erasure" ("Scancellare")
 * 2.04: "The Kiss" ("Il bacio")
 * 2.05: "The Betrayal" ("Il tradimento")
 * 2.06: "Rage" ("La rabbia")
 * 2.07: "The Secret Notebooks" ("I fantasmi")
 * 2.08: "The Blue Fairy" ("La fata blu")