A revelation by major columnist Márcia Pereira of the Notícias da TV website gave important context to the tragedy in the first few weeks of Travessia. According to the journalist, Glória Perez had to write the first 18 chapters at the push of a button, which took months of work to debut soon after Pantanal rather than 2023.
With that I concluded that we would have another soap opera on the air starting this Monday. With more cohesive dialogue and a meaningful narrative line. Well, I was dead wrong. Instead of getting better, Travessia just seems to be getting worse.
It’s a very big disappointment considering the long list of good offices the author has rendered around teledramaturgy. But not only is the story downright outlandish, it also manages to be uninteresting. It has no appeal, not even as a guilty pleasure, like the conspiracies of yore.
To make matters worse, all production equipment appears to be going through a severe crisis. Even if you reduce the number of different languages in the same chapter, the direction remains awkward and little in line with the text. And the performances are at a level well below what Globo has historically presented.
One scene is worse than the next. It’s hard to praise anything. Giovanna Antonelli and Alexandre Nero can be seen as positive highlights, even playing on autopilot.
Also according to Márcia Pereira, Travessia will speed up the Brisa arc to see if things start to make sense. Still, the novel’s problems seem to run deeper than the cadence. The feeling is that the novel is conceptually wrong.
But we’ll keep an eye on it. I mean more or less. Sometimes I get distracted by funny animal videos on Twitter. But I promise to try.
We’ll get back to you with new information at any time.