Brotherhood

I'm Brazilian, I grew up in the hood of São Paulo in the 90's that's why I don't have any doubt how natural and realistic that series sounds. Cast are good almost great especially some of its captivating characters. Story are between excellence/great but I hope they can improve it even more next seasons.

You can breathe the tension and feel mentally tortured with all decisions of each character, see the dirty underground world of São Paulo.

Enjoy the story while you try to figure out how to scape from the hell that only corruption, social inequality, extreme violence and crime can bring to you.

Fast paced, vibrant thrilling script with many twist and turns. Well defined wrought characters. It contrives events in the last two episodes to give way to a second season

Fast paced series, with many things going on every episode that really pushes you to continue watching all in a row. As a south american, what happens in Brazil is almost identical to the rest of the neighbor countries, but in Brazil the violence and the riots reach extremes, as maybe you saw in real news.

Worth watching.

Movies like Tropa d'elite and Ciudade de Deus are one of my favourites, with the raw Brazilian mentality and how hard life can be over there. If you like those kind of movies, you'll like this series too. Irmandade - the Brotherhood - is a terrific show with a great depiction of the mismanagement of Brazilian prisons. It also shows the great strength of people - if they are well organised - who want to fight aforementioned injustice. Very well told with some surprising twists.

I didn't expect much when I started to watch the first show, especially not that I would watch all 8 in one go. It is a great series showing the failed, corrupt Brazilian police and prison system. Marvelous acting makes you sometimes feel that you are in the middle of all that action. Can't wait for season 2.