Simples Assim

Simples Assim was a Brazilian television program aired on Rede Globo on Saturday afternoons from October 10 to December 26, 2020, under the command of Angélica. The program reflects on different subjects related to people's lives and happiness.

Why It's Simply Not Positive

 * 1) While good on the paper making a program about positive reflexions related to people's lives and happiness, unfortunately it came in the first year of the Coronavirus pandemic in Brazil, when it already took many lives of many people, which made the public accuse Angélica of toxic positivity, by promoting excessive optimism in the middle of the pandemic.
 * 2) The program itself looks like more as a GNT program than a Rede Globo program, which by the way, it would be better if went to GNT instead.
 * 3) Angélica's conversations (despite being a great host) with anonymous and famous people don't end up flowing so well.
 * 4) Even the short humor scenes starring celebrities, as fun as they can be, are artificial.
 * 5) The program's format, where it addresses themes such as happiness, faith, work, family, solidarity, diversity, vanity and love, through different ways of telling the stories, which came from the streets, from the homes of anonymous characters, through humorous sketches or by the dynamics with some of them on stage it's very tedious.
 * 6) This program is a bad return for Angélica in Globo's programming, after the end of Estrelas in 2018, because of the program's content, which is the same as in several other Brazilian TV programs.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Is great to see Angélica having a new program on Globo, after two years without a program in the television, despite the program itself wasn't that good.
 * 2) Angélica's hosting is still very good.
 * 3) Nice theme song, that uses the song "Simples Assim" from the duo Anavitória.

Reception
For her proposal to preach the "simplicity of life", netizens on social media accused the presenter of hypocrisy, for wanting to encourage the public to see the simple side of life as a rich artist and for appearing in the attraction's promotional material wearing an outfit. valued at 23 thousand reais. In addition, part of the public accused her speech as "toxic positivity", for promoting excessive optimism during a pandemic that killed thousands of people in Brazil.

Thiago Forato, from NaTelinha, linked to UOL said that the program is "nice, but has the face of a pay television program, very close to a program from GNT".