Once again, a similar rythm of Rui and Vani's delightful back-and-forths at his apartment - the whole bit about doing nasty stuff when your partner isn't looking was great and their exchange with Rui's high school friend and Vani's depressed friend on a bar where everyone is uncomfortable was also a blast, specially the meta-jokes part. That whole part where they say what they would do to stir up the conversation (causing the reactions they say it would cause) without the viewers actually having to listen to any of the conversation was pretty brilliant and an original take, Rui's exchange with a stranger on the bathroom also provided some good laughs and was smart, so was Vani's monologue about "letting your friend cry and have a cathartic moment" until she notices that her friend is actually going to kill herself - but things falls a part a bit on the very last minutes and mostly because of, once again, problematic jokes. You could say that Vani saying that a "butch lesbian" is something ugly could steem from her medium-class hetero build-up and something similar to Rui's discomfort around his old school friend who's now a trans woman that he finds on the street and that the show is actually being self-aware for pointing that, but I don't think it's that smart - they were what they were, problematic jokes about minorities that was exactly the kind of humour that populated open brazilian TV at the time and had a clear target with the show's audience in mind. In any case, it doesn't downgrade from a really great overall episode prior to that and you can dismiss it more easily due to their argument during the last scene sounding genuine (as they always do, they were improvised by the actors) and for the original resolution for the problem. I think the show finally got a grip of its rythm, let's hope it continues down that path
Review by MarcusBlockedParent2020-02-14T07:20:43Z
Once again, a similar rythm of Rui and Vani's delightful back-and-forths at his apartment - the whole bit about doing nasty stuff when your partner isn't looking was great and their exchange with Rui's high school friend and Vani's depressed friend on a bar where everyone is uncomfortable was also a blast, specially the meta-jokes part. That whole part where they say what they would do to stir up the conversation (causing the reactions they say it would cause) without the viewers actually having to listen to any of the conversation was pretty brilliant and an original take, Rui's exchange with a stranger on the bathroom also provided some good laughs and was smart, so was Vani's monologue about "letting your friend cry and have a cathartic moment" until she notices that her friend is actually going to kill herself - but things falls a part a bit on the very last minutes and mostly because of, once again, problematic jokes. You could say that Vani saying that a "butch lesbian" is something ugly could steem from her medium-class hetero build-up and something similar to Rui's discomfort around his old school friend who's now a trans woman that he finds on the street and that the show is actually being self-aware for pointing that, but I don't think it's that smart - they were what they were, problematic jokes about minorities that was exactly the kind of humour that populated open brazilian TV at the time and had a clear target with the show's audience in mind. In any case, it doesn't downgrade from a really great overall episode prior to that and you can dismiss it more easily due to their argument during the last scene sounding genuine (as they always do, they were improvised by the actors) and for the original resolution for the problem. I think the show finally got a grip of its rythm, let's hope it continues down that path