The recent premiere of My Brilliant Friend‘s Season 4 finale has finally addressed the much-discussed disappearance of Tina, Lila’s daughter. After exploring the turbulent relationship shared between Alba Rohrwacher’s Elena and Lila, the series shifts its focus toward the latter’s troubled past. In doing so, the narrative explores the circumstances that ultimately led Irene Maiorino’s character to go missing. As My Brilliant Friend reaches its conclusion, however, fans are still left with the burning question of what actually happened to Tina.
Here’s everything you need to know regarding Tina’s shocking disappearance in the Neapolitan coming-of-age drama.
What really happened to Tina in My Brilliant Friend Season 4?
In My Brilliant Friend Season 4 Episode 9, viewers see the depth of Tina’s loss to Lila’s mental state. However, the adapted series, similar to Elena Ferrante’s original novel, fails to reveal the young girl’s actual fate.
As the fourth and final installment of the accredited show progresses, fans witness Lila growing more and more distant from her friends and family. Understandably, the driving force behind Lila’s isolating behavior is the unexplained deprivation of her daughter. Nevertheless, the penultimate episode also discloses more aspects of Lila’s traumatic life. In the episode, audiences learn that the ex-Solaras employee lost her brother, Rino, to an overdose.
Despite Elena’s care, the burden of losing two loved ones ends up taking a toll on Lila, who ultimately decides to disappear herself. While analyzing her arc, many fans have come up with theories that explain Tina’s sudden vanishment in My Brilliant Friend. One angle suggests that the Solaras abducted and subsequently murdered Tina to exact vengeance on Tina. Another theory presumes that Tina was kidnapped by a common criminal who committed the deed for their own nefarious purposes.
Nevertheless, the original story of My Brilliant Friend has chosen to keep Tina’s fate a mystery. Instead, her disappearance serves as a tool to further Lila’s descent into madness. As such, no one truly knows what happened to Lila’s daughter.
