Santo

The subject of the series is appealing and the Spanish-Brazilian collaboration full of potential but the series is not worth the time. Very poor direction, with unnecessary jumps from past to present and back, from one location to anotherand back - the movie is a head-scratching mess.

There are a lot of story lines left unaddressed and numerous characters left unexplained.

The acting is decent for how chaotic the characters have been drafted. In general, it feels like the director went for shock and gory instead of dramatic coherence.

Unless you want to waste six hours of your life, don't even start it.

It makes no sense.

I'm currently in the second episode and I have no idea who half the characters are all what is going on it seems to be well filmed and maybe well acted but I've got no idea are there two bearded men or three bearded men is the Twist to the bad guys I don't know who the women are wasn't his girlfriend or wife who I thought lived in another country killed and now she's alive I have absolutely no idea what's going on

Somehow we go from the end of episode 1 and he's in a hole in the ground in episode 2 in another country I assume they're gonna do filling some gaps in future episodes but I just have no idea what country which actor is in and who they are.

I gave it a shot because not only do I love all the countries it is set in, but the cast is generally speaking great too.

However... what a waste of talented actors. Everyone involved in this project deserved a better story, I'm not even sure how they prepared for their roles because nothing makes sense. It's impossible to follow what's going on. And as much as I love Victoria Guerra, her accent was weak and they could have easily casted a Brazilian actress instead. Unless it turns out in the end that her true nationality all along wasn't Brazilian - I wouldn't know because I just couldn't torture myself to watch the whole thing.

I'm always happy to see Portuguese/Spanish series on Netflix and wish there were more, but they need to amp up the quality and make justice to the talent they hire.

Must be for the tiktok generation or something. So poorly written with mediocre acting. Save yourself the time...because this is absolutely not worth it. You keep on watching because you hope eventually there iwll be a good plot twist but it is so obvious who is Santa from the beginning. I wish I would get that bit of lifetime back.. I wonder what other series or movie this writer and director have created. This is even reason enough to cancel my netflix subscription... Another proof for pure garbage productions from netflix recently. I hated this series so much I even went out of my way to write this review.

I came to the reviews hoping that someone else had made sense of this. But with only three reviews I'm out of luck. I'm halfway through episode 2 and I have no idea what's going on. All I can say is the characters seem interesting, the dubbing is actually very good considering it's Netflix, the atmosphere is consistently drab and unappealing. The story is so convoluted jumping around so much you don't know who's who, who's the good guy, who's the bad guy, why this guy was in the gutter, did they find the boy? But right away I think I know who Santo is, so I'm probably not going to finish watching this. Oh and there's some weird visual effects where it's almost like they tried to do some sort of a Blair Witch fx but different. At first it's interesting but it has no purpose in other words it doesn't come right before something or right after something it's just kind of random. It would be like having a musical crescendo despite that nothing happened.