Pôr do Sol

Unfortunately, usually in portuguese productions the main issue is the "writing", but fortunately, in this case the writing is simply superb! This is a "telenovela" mocking with "telenovelas" with refined non-sense and intelligent comedy. Besides, the acting and the directing are also brilliant! It is a bold kind of show that was missing in portuguese television. I think that both telenovela fans as well as non-fans will laugh a lot with "Pôr do Sol"!

The script is superb, mocking regular soap operas and all it's clichés - and when I say all, I really mean it.

All the cast members are mainly actors of those "classic" soap operas, which makes scenes even funnier, and manages to showcase they're acting skylls.

Many references could be lost in translation as they're based on social and portuguese entertainment, but if you liked movies like "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun" mashed up with Monty Python type of comedy, you'll get the overall picture.

Shout out to Rui Melo (actor and writer) and Gabriela Barros (hilarious!!!), Henrique Dias Cardoso (idea/Writer) and all cast and crew (even the score is awesome).

Last but not least, let's not forget the featured band, Jesus Quisto, their music reportoire and all vocal members, the riskier job ever (lol)!

Well done!

Portugal misses this types of shows: shows that couldn't be made anywhere else, because they are solely based on our own popular references. Only a portuguese can identify saul ricardo (and be aware he exists) in the first episode for example. Or knows the portuguese version of the price is right - which is way more than just a tv show. And who knows who joao baiao is and the impact of "big show sic" the tv show he hosted? Exactly.

Than our soap operas have their own specifics. Which means that you need to know a bunch of portuguese pop culture and portuguese soap operas. So yeah, before watching "por do sol" you should maybe live in portugal for like 10 years lol. Or at least having someone portuguese to explain almost all the jokes to you.

The characters and the plot arent really important, they just need to exist. This is a spoof, so the plot is pretty much the plot of a standard soap opera - with the difference that the dialogues are all non sense. I dont think this is an amazing piece of work neither the best comedy portugal ever produced - but it does make a very poignant parody of our soap operas. And we need portuguese shows like water in the desert.

A marvelous telenovela created from the absurd and non sense that makes it so amazingly. Storyline, cast and director are superb. I can imagine the bloopers!

All my life I've watched incredibly boring and truly uninteresting shows in Portugal, but this? Holy moly where to even begin with the insanity of it's writing. I begged and begged for years for the portuguese productions to just go crazy with ideas, lets something insane go onto the screen and it feels like somehow that prayer was heard, this is by far the most entertaining thing that has ever graced the portuguese television scenario and I am so proud of every single person who contributed to this, thank you all so much.

My favorite line:

"Eu nao sou um monstro como tu... eu... dou arroz ao baco alimentar"

"Im not a monster like you... I donate rice to the food bank"

it just sends me lmao <3333.