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A very short time after 'A Padroeira', the excellent author Walcyr Carrasco delights us with his new and tasty (yeah, the word is that, tasty!) work. Now, day by day, at six o'clock, we Brazilians sit on the sofa and spend moments of pure joy and comedy. And that time, Walcyr Carrasco presents us a plot which seems to be the opposite of the most soap opera plots: the villains in the soap 'conspire' to join the passionate couple, instead of separating them. This is the very new of that story. Mariana Ximenes never acted in a role so serious and adult like this is. She's perfect! And not only Mariana Ximenes, but the whole cast of theater superstars is marvelous, wonderful, perfect, SUPERB!

"O Cravo e a Rosa" (The Thorn and the Rose) became one of the best soap operas ever made in a very short time. Record between 2000-2001, this "novela" was one of the bests. Adriana Esteves was marvelous as Catarina, like the whole cast were in their respectives. As Ney Latorraca said (the actor who played Cornélio Valente): "it was the right work in the right time. There was no particular success. The whole cast shined." And he didn't knew how he'd be right.