Gostaria de uma Xícara de Café?

This is a slice of life, slow burn series - so it isn't for everyone. It's very coffee industry oriented, but also weaves lessons of life into the narrative, through the main characters and the several guest roles.

These half-hour episodes, 12 of them, means the series is really only 6 hours long. I will say that I needed to not be too tired when watching it, because there weren't any overarching themes to follow. In other words, there was no serial killer to catch, or political enemy to overcome, or a romance you're waiting to see how it ends. It was a window into the lives of some good people whose connections were forged and built on the shared love of coffee, the perfecting of techniques to create the various flavors and consistencies, and the universality that the words "Would you like a cup of coffee?" can open minds and hearts once a person feels seen, heard, understood.

I feel like I've been given such a gift in watching this series. I had just come away from 2 other series that I had to drop because they were too over the top for me. This was exactly the right speed and degree of elegant excellence that I needed.

This is not for everyone. This is for those who are into the slow poetry of a long shot, into the meditative quality of silence, into thinking about what the characters are feeling. It's a gem. When so much media is about speed, intensity, and in your face "this is what you should understand from it," this show give you space to immerse yourself in what a scene means, what the characters are. I find it comparable to "Midnight Diner" for the kind of atmosphere it sets and for the depth of feeling it elicits. Twelve episodes were enough to leave a mark, but I hope there will be more and that if they come they will stay true to the quality of this season.

Whimsical and sweet, each episode also has aspects of pertinent issues and sensibilities. It gently takes you along as the main character learns to understand things about the world around him and the people in it. Just a nice way to spend 25 minutes.

This drama is not for everyone. If you're looking for romance or suspense it's not for you.

But if you re looking for something tranquil and serene with meditative depth, you might love it.

The drama and the topic are rather niche products than mainstream. The topic of the drama evolves around a small coffee shop and the art of brewing coffee and how small acts of kindness can improve people's lifes.

This miniseries it's like a warm, relaxing coffee break, each episode ~20 minutes long. I liked the mentor-mentee relationship, even though the mentor was a bit too cliche of a wise, mysterious, stoic person contrasted by the side characters and the critic.

The unspoken leaves space for your own pondering and interpretation.

The coffee shop itself is warm and calm space.

And that's probably how this series is best watched: as a warm, refuelling break, all the while also learning about coffee.

Well made 👌

After the manic extravagance of CGI super heroes, overly sentimental disease of the month dramas, guessable mysteries and unfunny comedies, too often full of foul language and over the top fight scenes, this series is a breath of fresh air. The acting is such that you feel they are not acting, that they are the real people they portray. It is a series of moments intertwining a group of people's lives, centered around a coffee shop. The humor is light, the drama is believable, and their stories are like fresh brewed fine quality coffee. Another viewer hoped there will be a continuation, but with the same quality of this delightful view into these characters.