I watched the previous series My Brilliant Film, and loved it. But perhaps because it was one episode a week, and the series only once a year, it was much harder to keep the characters straight than the current The Lying Lives of Adults. I understand the underlying themes quite well-the hypocrisy of the left attempting to understand the working class, who were too busy trying to survive to care about Marxist theory; the ways that academics are sometimes shallow, reading and talking about politics but very seldom carrying out their beliefs; and finally the ways that friendships between women can survive betrayals, harsh words and lies. Some of the characters from the earlier series are also transposed with different names into this one. Its a beautiful series which has done what it accomplished, transformed literature into film. My only wish is that Netflix didn't dub in so many of their foreign features. It is sometimes flat and doesn't follow the subtitles.