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Despite being a somewhat shameful copy of the Brazilian telenovela 'Um Lugar ao Sol' and this television station being in some way a partner of Globo, the telenovela has been a positive surprise, namely the characters of the actors Carla Andrino, Ana Marta Ferreira, Cristóvão Campos and Maria João Pinho. Luana Piovani herself, who must have been casted through Globo's influence and in a way of settling any potential or eventual copyrights issues, has a curious performance in using the written form of European Portuguese in her character but with Brazilian Portuguese diction. The basic story is nevertheless quite basic and with the typical adventures of a telenovela for a very broad target audience.

It draws several parallels between ones' unconscious identity, the primitive and present day awareness that holds a grip on everyone. Only after the main character is able to dominate her wild self is she free. At some aspects it brings to light issues about race and subsequent inferiority complexes. It is still a mistery the meaning for the presence of so many rabbits but I believe it has to do with the terrible act of people eating rabbit meat killing such a docile, vulnerable looking creature. "Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them." Jeremiah 11:11.

Ricardo Araújo Pereira is a prominent Portuguese humorist, a blantly shrewd, articulate and progressive individual who weekly goes through a selection of Portugal's political bloopers, headlines and unfortunate moments. Coincidence or not he was born only 3 days after the peaceful revolution that bought democracy to an obtuse Portugal and its overwhelming 'humble', blindly religious society. I would take out the interviews that he has previously made a regular part of the show, it is not for him and takes away the starking funny element. You can always count on his show to exercise political pressure on the most dire internal issues.