So, I have been waiting for months for season three of HBO's My Brilliant Friend series (based on Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels) and somehow it has snuck in¹ and started without me noticing! Anyway, the s03 trailer is above, the first episode aired earlier this week & is on HBO Max now, and new episodes will follow every Monday.

If you haven't seen the show, you should check out the first two seasons first...this show is a gem and I wish HBO was doing more to promote it.

1. I've logged into HBO Max like 4 times this week and it has shown me nothing about the show, even though I watched the first two seasons of it. Even now, I had to dig to find it. Algorithm, you had one job...↩

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That someone was able to turn Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels into a compelling TV series is nothing short of miraculous. It could have gone so wrong.¹ A key aspect of that success has to be Max Richter's score for the show. I've been listening to the season one soundtrack for awhile now, but just stumbled across the season two soundtrack.

That's today work music sorted, then.

P.S. For the first couple of months of the pandemic, I shared what I was listening to during my workday in this thread (continued here). Check it out if you need some wordless music to beaver away to.

1. Same with Sally Rooney's Normal People. The TV series could have been terrible but it very much was not.↩

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I loved Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels so much that that I almost couldn't bring myself to watch the trailer for HBO's upcoming miniseries adaptation of the first book. But I did and I'm...cautiously optimistic? Eight episodes, premieres in November. Oh god, I hope this is good.

P.S. Seriously, this series is probably my favorite read from the last five years. Phenomenal. (via @rkgnystrom)

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