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.

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.

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.

Morangos com Açucar was a Portuguese series for teenagers and childreen that gave from Monday to Friday in the evenings on TVI. This series followed a group of teenagers and their love, school, or parenting problems. In each season there was always the season of school grade that passed during the school year and the summer vacation series, which gave during the summer.

This series marked my childhood and adolescence, I saw from season 2 to 8, that is, from my 8 to 15 and always thought it was fantastic and best series ever. Now almost 10 years after it was over, as I watched the replays that go on at Panda Biggs (it's now the 6th summer season), my opinion couldn't be more different and completely contrary to what it was when I was little.

The series is very cringe and most of the young actors didn't know how to perform, it all seemed very forced and unnatural (although here I even give them a discount because it was the first experience of many in the performance and some of them later succeeded in the world of representation). Everyone was very melodramatic and thought she was the owner of the breed, especially with her parents, because they are all poor things and they have the worst parents. At that time I thought it was an injustice for parents not to let them out or something, now I feel like giving a couple of pops to the annoying kids, who deep down are too much spoiled.

This series marked a generation, that is true, but it was certainly made for the younger layers because now as an adult I see how the series was not good, not even at close range.