Look, i am portuguese. I would love to have loved this. We have lots of talent on any cinema field, and if we had more money we would have been making great movies and tv shows. At least with the same quality of the spanish ones, and who knows? Some of them better. You want one example? You had better portuguese actors to make the american characters we see on the show. And they could make the same accent no problem. And even if it sound a bit bonkers, the results would have been better.
My main problem is that, and i hate to use this adjective, i found this show boring. It looked too much as a soap opera for me. Some of the dialogues are too expositive and some of the scenes are just too long. On a show like this making dialogue scenes with more than 2 minutes or even 3 its just a lot. Plus i didnt care that much about the characters. There are very few truly redeemable people here. I understand that is somehow the point, but i found out i am not rooting exactly for anyone - well i am surely not rooting for pide, but still.
It is important to see how a lot of women were (and still are) treated. But having the guys we hate the most on the show pretty much being hateful for the same thing, its not exactly that creative. The show tell us not to trust anyone or to attach us to any characters - that is a choice, sure. I just dont agree with it.
It is not bad still. Even though some camera angles are repetitive, the show is well directed, with good cinematography. The costumes and the design are also very well made. But my problem is mostly with the pace of this. Too slow, and the dialogues are just too long a bunch of times. Does it deserve a watch? Definitely because as you can see, a lot of people dont agree with me. Do i want to see season 2? Probably not, unfortunately. I hope netflix continues on producing things in portugal, we desperately need our industry to be born, because we never had one. Lets hope this is the first step for bigger things.
My main problem is that, and i hate to use this adjective, i found this show boring. It looked too much as a soap opera for me. Some of the dialogues are too expositive and some of the scenes are just too long. On a show like this making dialogue scenes with more than 2 minutes or even 3 its just a lot. Plus i didnt care that much about the characters. There are very few truly redeemable people here. I understand that is somehow the point, but i found out i am not rooting exactly for anyone - well i am surely not rooting for pide, but still.
It is important to see how a lot of women were (and still are) treated. But having the guys we hate the most on the show pretty much being hateful for the same thing, its not exactly that creative. The show tell us not to trust anyone or to attach us to any characters - that is a choice, sure. I just dont agree with it.
It is not bad still. Even though some camera angles are repetitive, the show is well directed, with good cinematography. The costumes and the design are also very well made. But my problem is mostly with the pace of this. Too slow, and the dialogues are just too long a bunch of times. Does it deserve a watch? Definitely because as you can see, a lot of people dont agree with me. Do i want to see season 2? Probably not, unfortunately. I hope netflix continues on producing things in portugal, we desperately need our industry to be born, because we never had one. Lets hope this is the first step for bigger things.