Amor e Revolução

Amor e Revolução is a Brazilian soap opera produced and aired by SBT from April 5, 2011 to January 13, 2012, in 204 chapters, replacing the rerun of A História de Ana Raio and Zé Trovão and being replaced by Corações Feridos, recorded in 2010 and shelved by the lack of sponsorship until then. Written by Tiago Santiago, with the collaboration of Renata Dias Gomes, Miguel Paiva and Elliana Garcia. Directed by Reynaldo Boury, Luiz Antônio Piá and Marcus Coqueiro and executive production by Sérgio Madureira.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) Although the plot of the soap opera is based on the military dictatorship of Brazil from 1964 to 1985 being good, unfortunately the plot is poorly executed and has several problems, as the military dictatorship is dramatized and romanticized, which can be offensive to people who lived or were tortured in the military dictatorship.
 * 2) There's too much torture scenes with blood and also very heavy and strong that the soap opera shows. Because of Miraheze's rules policy, we cannot show these scenes.
 * 3) The cast was not well chosen, despite being because unfortunately many actors and actresses from Globo who take 2 years or more to have a role in Globo still have a contract with it, that is, need to get actors and actresses without any contracts.
 * 4) Although the songs are cool, they are used in the soap opera in a random and meaningless way, out of nowhere the music appears and out of nowhere it ends, that it breaks the mood of the soap opera.
 * 5) The soap opera's comedy and jokes are dry and boring too.
 * 6) There is a lot of cliché in this soap opera, with several couple fights, villains getting along and a lot of flattery.
 * 7) The soap opera treats the audience that should be taught, if they were not intelligent and are dumb, which is ridiculous.
 * 8) The testimonies that were shown in the end of the chapters of the soap opera were taken down in July 2011, that according to the soap opera's team, there were only testimonies against the military coup, and none in favor, which, in reality, the real reason was many politicians or supporters of the cause, even ex-president Dilma Rousseff denied making statements for the soap opera, claiming to be afraid that what they said when editing the video will change.
 * 9) To add to the salt in the wound, this soap opera came in a dark time, when soap operas were suffering from the dark era that SBT's dramaturgy was living and that made SBT move to children's soap operas in 2012 and being the last telenovela that the author Tiago Santiago wrote (so far, of course).

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) The theme song isn't bad, since it uses the song "Roda Viva" of singer-songwriter Chico Buarque and the group MPB-4, a song from 1967 that speaks perfectly how the Brazilian military dictatorship was not good and how people at that time wanted to save the country from that dictatorship.
 * 2) The lesbian kiss of the characters Marcela and Marina is the one of the only good things of this soap opera, although which was mistakenly credited as the first LGBT kiss in the history of Brazilian drama, that in fact the credit goes to Vida Alves and Georgia Gomide in the episode "Calúnia", from the series TV de Vanguarda, on Rede Tupi in 1963.
 * 3) The soap opera has the vibe of a telenovela written by the late Janete Clair (if you take away the romance and drama), mainly because the telenovela had the collaboration of Renata Dias Gomes, granddaughter of the author and the late Dias Gomes, as they suffered from the military dictatorship with demands and censorship in their soap operas.

Reception
The soap opera wasn't well received by the critics of the Brazilian television and was very criticized as a weak and poorly elaborated soap opera. The journalist and critic Leonardo Ferreira of the newspaper-site Extra started praising the opening of the plot, saying: "The best moment of the first chapter [...] is over: the opening. To the sound of "Roda Viva", by Chico Buarque, it shows journalists, students and other characters disappearing on the scene, in an allusion to the disappeared or captured by the military regime.", the same critic, says that the biggest sin of the chapter was the direction, and says that the performances are not yet judgable, but highlighted the actresses Patricia de Sabrit and Gabriela Alves as the best. The critic Mauricio Stycer, from the UOL website, said that the production was "A good soap opera", commented on the final testimony "This position was made explicit at the end of the first chapter, closed with the emotional testimony of former political prisoner Maria Amélia Teles, whose children, they saw her being tortured. It was the most impressive moment in a loose chapter, which left the question in the air whether "Amor e Revolução" will be able, even with all the wind in its favor, to seduce the public." Mauricio ended the criticism by saying "The first chapter of "Amor e Revolução" was, in short, frustrating. A great topic, in a good moment, is not enough to hold a soap opera." The ratings of the soap opera were very horrible, only having an overall average of 4.75 points, becoming the worst audience in the history of SBT's original soap operas.

Trivia

 * Rio de Janeiro voice actor, Mário Cardoso, known for voicing Professor Utonium in the Brazilian dub of mh:besttvshows:The Powerpuff Girls (1998) and other characters, was part in the cast of this soap opera, because he's also a soap opera actor.
 * This soap opera was the last of Cláudio Cavalcanti, who passed away in 2013.