In the final stretch, discover the mistakes and successes of “Land and Passion”

Even with the focus on the gay couple, diversity didn’t have much place in Walcyr Carrasco’s plot

“Land and Passion” began with an inglorious task: to exploit the audience left behind by the disastrous “Travessia”. With the failure of Glória Perez’s telenovela, it fell to the successful creator of the house, Walcyr Carrasco, responsible for plots celebrated at all times, from “Chocolate com Pimenta”, at 6pm, to “Verdades Secretas”, at 11pm, up to ” A Dona do Pedaço” and “O Outro Lado do Paraíso”, from 9pm, work to recover the 9pm slot.

The mission was completed with some success. The second half of the storyline won over an audience, largely with the help of co-author, Thelma Guedes, and big story winners like Tony Ramos, Glória Pires, and Eliane Giardini.

On social media and in the other programs of the house, the couple formed by Diego Martins (Kelvin) and Amaury Lorenzo (Ramiro) also stood out, almost becoming protagonists.

Kelvin and Ramiro’s unforgettable moments

The idyll of the couple nicknamed “Kelmiro” moved the public, who applauded the kiss between the waiter and the henchman for months, providing equally fun and exciting moments.

This LGBTQIA+ visibility did not extend to the female couple in the plot. Gradually, Menah (Camilla Damião) and Mara (Renata Gaspar) were cast aside and it was up to Renata to make it public and ask for a worthy ending for the characters.

“Loves, Mara and Menah will no longer have a soap opera plot. I think when it’s all over we’ll talk more about what we’ve been through. But that’s how it is, we’ve become the aunts, who stay in the background partying and no one asks about their story because they don’t want to know.”It’s that aunt who lives with her friend” he posted on X, formerly Twitter.

The result of the complaint was a kiss of consolation in times when the broadcaster has eliminated scenes of affection between people of the same sex.

Valéria Barcellos also risked missing out, a brilliant artist with undeniable charisma who deserved much more for her cute Luana.

Blacks and indigenous people

Despite the escalation of the plot that saw a white family as representing predatory agribusiness and a black protagonist as one of the victims of greed, the racial issue ended up being ignored.

Meet the indigenous cast of Terra e Paixão

“Vai na Fé”, the last episode at 7pm, demonstrated, with great success among the public and critics, that it is possible to talk about the topic in an effective, pedagogical and interesting way and that in other languages, such as literature, the he topic has proven to attract the public, see the success of the novel “Torto Arado” by Itamar Vieira Jr.

The girl, in fact, was the one who suffered the most, and not because she was a girl as we expect in most plots, but because of her character’s lack of direction. The “Land and Paixão” team did not have the sensitivity necessary to present a black woman and a single mother in the Brazil of 2023, which has 1.7 million single mothers, of which 90% are black, according to a survey by the Institute Brazilian Economics, from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV).

With big names like Daniel Munduruku and Suyane Moreira, the indigenous core also entered the plot, often appearing from a mystical place and supporting the protagonist Caio, played by Cauã Reymond.

Now, the audience of nine o’clock soap operas is waiting to see if “Renascer”, the next plot that takes place in the hinterland of Bahia and has a diverse cast, will feature this diversity in its plot.

Source: Terra

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