To be precise, one of the sendary characters turns out to be gay - but this isn't revealed until much later the story (somewhere around book 3)
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THE FASCATG FACE ‘MY BRILLIANT FRIEND’ AN APPRECIATN OF MICHELE SOLARA, RINT NEIGHBORHOOD BASTARD. CULTURE MY TERRIFYG IEND CULTURE THE FASCATG FACE ‘MY BRILLIANT FRIEND’ AN APPRECIATN OF MICHELE SOLARA, RINT NEIGHBORHOOD BASTARD. JEREMY GORDON DEC—04—2018 12:26PM EST MY BRILLIANT FRIEND, THE ACCLAIMED ELENA FERRANTE NOVEL AND RECENTLY RELEASED HBO SHOW, CENTERS AROUND ELENA “LENU” GRE AND RAFFAELA “LILA” CELLO, TWO BT IENDS GROWG UP NAPL, AND THE PEOPLE THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. THE ADAPTATN IS NOT QUE AS GOOD AS THE BOOKS, BEE THE TERR LIV OF MEMORABLE LERARY CHARACTERS ARE NEVER SO EASILY REPRODUCED FOR THE MERA. BUT THE SHOW IS CHARMG, AND ENJOYABLE, BEE EFFECTIVELY MIMICS DTY MID-CENTURY NAPL; BEE FAHFULLY RECREAT THE PLOT AND CHARACTERS OF FERRANTE’S FIRST NOVEL; BEE THAT PLOT AND THOSE CHARACTERS ARE SO PELLG THAT TO WATCH THE ACTN PLAY OUT ON SCREEN IS NEARLY AS GOOD AS WATCHG PLAY OUT ON THE PAGE, EVEN IF YOU MISS ELENA’S MONOLOGU.THE EIGHT EPISO MISERI ISN’T YET FISHED, SO I’LL RERVE JUDGMENT FOR THE FISHED PRODUCT. I DO WANT TO TALK ABOUT ONE ELEMENT, THOUGH: THE TEENAGED MICHELE SOLARA, AS PORTRAYED BY ALS GALLO.WHO IS MICHELE SOLARA? MICHELE AND HIS BROTHER MARCELLO ARE THE PREENG, RICH BULLI OF THE LOT, HEIRS TO A SHADY BLACK MARKET TABLISHED BY THEIR PARENTS. THE SOLARAS ARE WELL-DRSED, WELL-FUND, AND TOTAL JERKS: THEY SPEND MOST OF FERRANTE’S NOVELS AS RECURRG BOOGYMEN, G THEIR MONEY TO LE THE NEIGHBORHOOD, YOKG WOMEN TO THEIR ORB, AND MANIFTG THE PRO-PALIST FASCIST IOLOGY THAT HNTS ITALY THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.MARCELLO IS THE PRETTY ONE. HE LOOKS LIKE THIS.MICHELE, AGA, LOOKS LIKE THIS.WHAT A FACE! SO FAR, THERE’S BEEN ALMOST NOTHG REVEALED ABOUT . MARCELLO, HIS BROTHER, HAS SOME TERRY: HE’S A JERK, BUT WHEN LILA HOLDS A KNIFE TO HIS NECK AFTER HE MAK A C PASS AT ELENA, HE BE ROMANTILLY OBSSED WH HER, AND ALMOST SENSIVE A WAY THAT MAK YOU FEEL SORRY FOR HIM. (BUT NOT TOO SORRY: LILA MAK CLEAR WHY SHE’S DISGTED BY HIM, AND THE SHOW MOSTLY NCURS WH HER.)MICHELE, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAS BARELY FACTORED TO THE PLOT BIS ACTG AS HIS BROTHER’S MCLE, AND LOOKG LIKE TEENAGED DRACULA. IT’S SUCH A FASCATG LOOK, LIKE A 40-60 RAT OF “HANDSOME?” TO “SRY.”TWO IENDS, APROPOS OF NOTHG, HAVE TEXTED ME WHILE WATCHG TO POT HIM OUT. I HADN’T EVEN MENTNED TO THEM.MICHELE’S PERPETUALLY BROODG EXPRSN REFLECTS HIS REPUTATN AS A SILENT ENFORCER, SOMEONE WHO DO THE DIRTY WORK WHOUT PLAT. THERE’S ONE SCENE THE FIFTH EPISO WHERE HE AND MARCELLO E TO THE RCUE OF ELENA AND LILA’S MALE IENDS WHEN THEY’RE GETTG THEIR ASS KICKED BY A GROUP OF RICH KIDS OM OUTSI THE NEIGHBORHOOD (AKA THE REAL ENEMY). MICHELE ASKS TO SEE THE JURI STAED BY PASQUALE, ONE OF THE IENDS, AND IS LY REJECTED. HE DON’T GET ANGRY, THOUGH; HIS FACE DON’T MOVE AT ALL. HE’S JT LIKE, “ALRIGHT, BE HURT, WHATEVER, I DON’T RE.” HE DON’T EVEN GET THANKED FOR HIS EFFORT. IN ANOTHER SCENE, HIS BROTHER WH TO HIM ABOUT GETTG PASQUALE KICKED OUT OF A PARTY, AND HE WORDLSLY PLI.CASTG AN ADAPTATN OF A NOVEL IS DIFFICULT. IN A SERI LIKE FERRANTE’S, WHERE YOU SPEND LERALLY S WH THE CHARACTERS OM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD TO OLD AGE, YOU E UP WH FAC FOR EVERYONE. THE ACTORS NEED TO NOT ONLY SATISFY THE MENTAL IMAGE CREATED BY THE REAR, BUT THEY NEED TO SATISFY THE MANDS OF THE TEXT. (FERRANTE HAS PLAYED A PART CREATG THE SHOW; I’M SURE SHE WAS VERY SPECIFIC ABOUT THAT.) SOME OF THE STG IS VERY GOOD: LILA AND ELENA LOOK AND ACT PERFECTLY, MY OPN. SOME OF THE STG IS SO-SO: THE LANKY, FLOPPY-HAIRED ANTON IS FAIRLY FETTABLE, A NO-NO NSIRG HE BE SUCH A PIVOTAL CHARACTER.MICHELE, THOUGH? WHAT AN OD PIECE OF SH. HE LOOKS LIKE HE WAS STYLED BY AN EVIL MORTICIAN.IF A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOAND WORDS, THE PICTUR SAY “I DON’T WANT TO FUCK WH THAT GUY” 125 TIM.THE ACTOR, ALS GALLO, IS NOT THIS TERRIFYG REAL LIFE. HE’S HANDSOME! HE N EVEN SE.SORRIDI, VA TUTTO BENE. ? #STREET #NAPLA POST SHARED BY ALS GALLO (@ALSGALLO900) ON OCT 7, 2018 AT 7:06AM PDTTHAT’S JT WHAT GOOD LIGHTG, STYLG, AND WRG WILL DO FOR YOU. THIS IS JT “ACTG,” OBVLY, BUT FOR ME ’S ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE ELEMENTS OF THE SHOW TH FAR.MY BRILLIANT FRIEND IS A GOOD SHOW, AND YOU SHOULD WATCH IF ONLY TO GET SOME MORE OF THIS GUY’S BRILLIANT FACE.CORRECTN: A PREV VERSN OF THIS STORY MISTAKENLY ASSERTED THAT THE MURRED DON ACHILLE WAS THE FATHER OF THE SOLARAS. THE OUTLE
Could my humble, homosexual spir spelunk safely to the Dantean pths of what has been scribed as one of the all time bt pictns of female iendship? Would I unwillgly emerge om this seri nverted and cured of homosexualy, spirually transformed by the platonic power of Elena and Lila’s bond?
Sometim that means your body away om bed on a Wednday night bee that’s the only time the lol gay bar has ladi night. I’ve always assumed beg gay required a fleeter foot along a trickier path than the one the heterosexuals walk, but how do the straights summon the energy to have so many relatnships that are so fundamentally unsatisfyg?