Because the novels are in Italian, the Director of My Brilliant Friend said it would have been “impossible” to do the series in English. #HBO was firmly committed to maintaining the books’ Neapolitan #dialect with English #subtitles @trafilm http://www.vulture.com/2018/07/my-brilliant-friend-tca-hbo-elena-ferrante.html

“The #dialect is part of the dramaturgy.” Not just in America, though: Mieli explained that the show would be #subtitled in Italy, too, because “we’re Romans and we don’t understand the Neapolitan dialect.”