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Os Cangaceiros
15th August 2015, 00:51
Does anyone else watch this show?

I borrowed the season 1 and 2 DVDs from my parents, I've been watching an episode a night with a couple of my co-workers. It's an entertaining show in parts, some of the storylines work better than others I think. My favorite character is definitely Mendez...the guy who plays him is a great actor. The way he says his lines is priceless, he cracks me up in that show. He hasn't been featured that much in season 2 thus far though. I also like the assistant warden lady who completely shits all over anyone who's beneath her in the prison bureaucracy.

I'm up to the part in the show where the anti-capitalist, vaguely left-wing annoying political prisoner ("Brook") is introduced. There's some very good casting in the show, the actress who plays the tweaker who shoots up the abortion clinic is also really good I think.

Counterculturalist
15th August 2015, 01:54
My sister got me into watching it when I was living with her. I like the show. It's one of the few modern TV shows I enjoy. The acting is some of the best I've seen on TV and the characters are really well-written and believable, although I dislike Piper and especially her insufferable husband; the less they are in the episode, the more I enjoy it.

In one episode that lefty nun mentions that she went to Nicaragua "to overthrow the Sandinistas." Obviously one of the writers doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about!