Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
Kaliane Bradley’s debut novel becomes a six part BBC series with A24 producing, and the pedigree alone makes this one of 2027’s most interesting bets. The premise: a secret government department rescues people from history, and a civil servant named…
Apple TV+ benched this Jessica Chastain thriller three days before its September 2025 premiere, and the story of why is more dramatic than most shows manage in a whole season. The Savant follows a real undercover investigator who infiltrates online…
It is a big one for A Nobreza do Amor: Mirinho’s wedding, a death that shakes the sugar mill, and Jendal finally reaching Brazil. Full spoilers for the week ahead, and because novelas reach international viewers days or months after…
Chocolate com Pimenta is a comfort object, and it knows it. Set in the 1920s, it follows Aninha, humiliated in the small town of Ventura after her father’s murder, who leaves and comes back owning the chocolate factory the whole…
Da Cor do Pecado matters first as history: in 2004 Taís Araújo became the first Black lead of a TV Globo novela in decades, and the show refused to treat that as a gimmick. She plays Preta, a young woman…
Senhora do Destino runs on one of the cruelest premises ever sold as entertainment: a poor migrant mother has her newborn daughter stolen, and the woman who took her, the magnificent monster Nazaré, spends 20 years enjoying the lie. Renata…
Tieta of Santana do Agreste is one of Jorge Amado’s great creations, and the 1989 TV Globo adaptation lets Betty Faria run wild with her. Expelled from her village as a rebellious teenager, Tieta returns 25 years later rich, powerful…
Before prestige television discovered evil twins, Glória Pires was doing the work on Globo. In Mulheres de Areia, from 1993, she plays both Ruth and Raquel, sisters with opposite souls, one gentle, one ruthless, and their rivalry over the same…
Manoel Carlos built Laços de Família, in 2000, around a question that still makes viewers flinch: what does a mother do when her daughter falls for the man she loves? Vera Fischer plays Helena, who steps aside, and Carolina Dieckmann…
O Clone is still one of the boldest things TV Globo ever put in primetime. Glória Perez fused a sweeping love story with science: Lucas, secretly cloned by his own godfather, and Jade, a Muslim woman raised in Morocco, live…