Morangos com Açúcar

I saw the first season of Morangos com Açucar when I was quite young. And I'm not gonna lie, I did end up watching it throughout. You had decent actors and a great soundtrack.

However, I stopped there. If you look at this show now, you will see a bunch on untalented (but attractive) actors and producers working hard to reenact everyday situations of real students, so that they can relate with the show. Is that really entertainment? This is aimed at teenagers, they say, but anyone with half-a-brain will notice all the clichés, all the mistakes and all the amateurs in this "show". So, in the end, people watching this show are the twelve and thirteen-year-olds of Portugal and even younger kids.

I am truly hoping that this trend will end soon so that teens can get back to their real life rather than wasting their time with this junk.

OK, I just wanted to say that I have never seen a soap opera as bad as this one, I've seen the first episode and I got sick, all I wanted to do was to turn off the TV and throw up! Here's the story of the first season, just for you to know how bad are these screenwriters... A girl that finds her boyfriend making out with another girl. She goes to the beach and, although she doesn't know how to swim (I'm taking a guess, because how the hell does anybody drowns when the level of the water is almost by its knee?) she goes into the water and starts to drown (all of this because of her boyfriend... Sweet love...). She is rescued by a surfer who is nude and, by chance, is in the same school as her and, by chance, is in the same class as her!! What are the odds?!BAD BAD BAD!!! And attention, that was just the first episode! After that, obviously, they fall in love, star to date, get mad at each other, the boy apologises to the girl, they date again, and the circle repeats itself like 20 to 30 times, just enough to keep the Portuguese youth glued to their TV sets(I only know all of this because my friends kept telling me the story every single day. After the first episode, I just refused to see any more of that). Meanwhile, something happens and the girl goes to Brazil, and the boy goes after her, and at that point the soap opera just turns a complete chaos, almost apocalyptic. They break up 30.000 times in two episodes (or so it seems), and then they're about to get married, but afterwards it's not quite like that I don't know why. If you want to know the end of this wonderful story, ask someone who is over 5 years-old and lives in Portugal, because I missed the "grand finale" and, honestly, I don't wanna know! End this, please, and I'll rest my case.

I really love the show it rocks...it is almost as good as mundou meu, deite quas tudo and fala me de amor (also Portuguese soaps) its shows how Portuguese families live and the real problems they have. for example they teach kids about pregnancy and and the problems that follow with it, also they show kids how completely silly they can be..like Manuel (a rebel in the show)..and shows them a way that they can try and change and become better. Anyway dude u said u know someone from morangos com accucar who? hook me up. I too have needs....girls there are really cute guys on the show...what i cant help myself (kiko is really cute)

"Morangos Com Açucar" only functions with cliché lines and cliché situations. Season after season, the storyline remains the same only with new actors, replacing the previous ones with identical characters.

The basic plot suits the basic actors and the even more basic audience.

Every ten minutes, some political/social message is said without having a direct relation to the situation. Two characters may be having a discussion and out of thin air, the subject of recycling is brought up. Once there was a dialog between a main character and an extra, solely for the purpose of indicating to the young audience that smoking is harmful to our health.

The editing is beyond any doubts, the worst I've seen. Part of the problem is the fact that certain scenes were written and shot without the writer and director applying something called "logic". I've seen a boat chase in which they've actually shot the scene alternating between a static and a moving boat.

Another poor thing which is a result of a poor script and editing, is the fact that characters speak in a specific order, without overlaying the others:

A - "Did you know that he stole the money?"

B - "Really?"

C - "Is that so?"

D - "This is bad..."

E - "Are you serious?"

F - "That can't be..."

And every time a character speaks, there's a close up paired with an annoying post production sound. How annoying...

In four seasons, there is only one good thing I've seen in this show: at some point we could relate to the female antagonists and protagonists.

I used to watch this show back when I was quite younger, I was eleven years old when it started and when it finished I was already twenty years old, but in any case, the only season I remember watching pretty much from its entirety until its end was the third season, the one with Tiago and Matilde, the Popstars and all that, and, realistically speaking, it's the only one that it's really worth watching from the beginning to the end. Sure it may be highly formulaic, some of the acting from some of its actors might not be the best and some of the stories there, the best one for me was the Tordocai virus which was so influential that it actually caused a mass hysteria moment in some schools in Portugal, might be highly bizarre but you can't help but enjoy that specific season of the show. Other than that one the show in general is highly formulaic, the main stories in general are quite basic and, for the most part, this show hasn't managed to age that much well.

In general, I give this show a 3/10 because the third season was good enough to raise the show's quality but other than that specific season the show never really showed much signs of evolution and it has been quite a stale show since then, I mean, seasons one, two and seven also had their moments but still quite far from the peak of this show which was and will always be season three.

As for the new show, I've seen some of the trailers for it and I definitely have zero interest in watching it, I think it might work when it comes to the first episode but after that it's going to be a massive flop because it's trying too hard to appeal to both "new" and "old" viewers and it's going to be a complete mess, in my very honest opinion.