Although entertaining, this show misses the potential it had. Fundamentally, it resulted in an attempt to mimic a Guy Ritchie influenced action/comedy bounded by Portuguese idiosyncrasies and stylistic approach. Now, imagine that in Ritchie's films, the gipsy speaks with a Californian accent or the Eastenders speak with a Chelsea accent, that's similar to what you get when you cast Lisbon-based actors to portray the islanders of the Azores archipelago.
Adding to the many nonsensical bits in the plot, there's an overall lack of realization of the comedic and dramatic heights as a combination of poor writing, directing, editing or acting choices.
Stylistically, there's just something very questionable about Portuguese commercial productions, something like a kitsch folkish vibe with a degrading sense of humour and generalisation of vulgar traits that contributes to the poor acting performances, understandably so, one might add. This results, among other things, in unrealistic dialogue with overusage of slang and curse words. I beg directors: don't make Lisbon-based actors curse on screen! Sounds ridiculous... Exceptions to the above are Rapazote and Del Carlo who deliver solid performances.
So, yeah...
Adding to the many nonsensical bits in the plot, there's an overall lack of realization of the comedic and dramatic heights as a combination of poor writing, directing, editing or acting choices.
Stylistically, there's just something very questionable about Portuguese commercial productions, something like a kitsch folkish vibe with a degrading sense of humour and generalisation of vulgar traits that contributes to the poor acting performances, understandably so, one might add. This results, among other things, in unrealistic dialogue with overusage of slang and curse words. I beg directors: don't make Lisbon-based actors curse on screen! Sounds ridiculous... Exceptions to the above are Rapazote and Del Carlo who deliver solid performances.
So, yeah...