Waste of time

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Just a quick note about the the chemistry of this show. It all works. Extremely well. The plot lines worked very well, drawing the viewer into the worlds of both the very rich and the lower working class of Rio, Brazil, exposing the inner workings of both street politics and traditional politics found within Brazil. The show has been able to pull together an extremely talented cast from Brazilian Television. The structure of the show is much better than your run of the mill novella normally found on Brazilian Television. I heard that there may only be one season due to tax issues with the government of Brazil. That is a pity. I hope that the producers are able to resolve the issues and begin generating additional episodes (The writers believe they have another 4 years of scripts available).