Irmandade

Movies like Tropa d'elite and Ciudade de Deus are one of my favourites, with the raw Brazilian mentality and how hard life can be over there. If you like those kind of movies, you'll like this series too. Irmandade - the Brotherhood - is a terrific show with a great depiction of the mismanagement of Brazilian prisons. It also shows the great strength of people - if they are well organised - who want to fight aforementioned injustice. Very well told with some surprising twists.

Brotherhood was a great surprise. Had to stick through first two episodes for the plot to thicken and grab my attention. Highly recommend!!

Fast paced series, with many things going on every episode that really pushes you to continue watching all in a row. As a south american, what happens in Brazil is almost identical to the rest of the neighbor countries, but in Brazil the violence and the riots reach extremes, as maybe you saw in real news.

Worth watching.

I absolutely loved this series. It's very exciting and different from regular american series. Hope they make a season II.

I didn't expect much when I started to watch the first show, especially not that I would watch all 8 in one go. It is a great series showing the failed, corrupt Brazilian police and prison system. Marvelous acting makes you sometimes feel that you are in the middle of all that action. Can't wait for season 2.