{"id":5447,"date":"2023-01-03T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T16:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=5447"},"modified":"2023-01-03T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T16:08:16","slug":"netflix-hops-on-the-elena-ferrante-bandwagon-with-persuasive-the-lying-life-of-adults-tv-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/netflix-hops-on-the-elena-ferrante-bandwagon-with-persuasive-the-lying-life-of-adults-tv-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Hops on the Elena Ferrante Bandwagon With Persuasive \u2018The Lying Life of Adults\u2019: TV Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/TheLyingLife-of-Adults.jpg?w=681&amp;h=383&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><sup>Courtesy Netflix<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><p>Variety &#8211; The pseudonymous novelist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/elena-ferrante\/\">Elena Ferrante<\/a>\u2019s appeal to television producers remains as clear as the Tyrrhenian Sea. Sun-kissed Italian locations; prominent female leads, afforded greater agency than the Italian media have traditionally afforded their women; material that\u2019s genre-adjacent, but open to more emotion than genre mechanics typically allow. As HBO\u2019s much-lauded \u2018My Brilliant Friend\u2019 \u2014 three seasons in, headed for a fourth \u2014 has demonstrated, Ferrante\u2019s flinty prose excavates not just time and place, but class and attitudes. That these projects function as deluxe soap is down to the abrasive element of social history salted into their fragrance and colouring: To wallow in these texts is to better understand how Italians used to live.<\/p><p>Netflix\u2019s new six-part adaptation of Ferrante\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-lying-life-of-adults\/\">The Lying Life of Adults<\/a>\u201d is framed as the coming-of-age of a sleuthy heroine; the mystery she stumbles into concerns her own extended family. When we meet Giovanna (Giordana Marengo), she\u2019s much like any other bourgeois teen bouncing around Naples in the early 1990s: sensitive about her tomboyish appearance, but busy enough with the usual rounds of studies, gigs and familial obligations. It\u2019s during the latter that she becomes aware of the volcanic faultline in her clan, separating her tweedy academic father Andrea (Alessandro Preziosi) from his defiantly proletarian sister Vittoria. Given that Vittoria\u2019s played by Valeria Golino, introduced blasting Edith Piaf from her balcony, you\u2019d be right to assume she\u2019s the pivotal presence here.<\/p><p><em>\u201cThe Lying Life of Adults\u201d streams on Netflix from January 4; all six episodes were screened for review.<\/em><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/global\/tv-reviews\/lying-life-of-adults-review-netflix-1235476321\/\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety &#8211; The pseudonymous novelist\u00a0Elena Ferrante\u2019s appeal to television producers remains as clear as the Tyrrhenian Sea. 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