![]() ![]() All the core characters are converging on the woods, as night falls, making for a nice visual palette and keeping the flames of the Curupira as a stark contrast to the backdrop. Fabiana also enters labor, as Camila tries to bypass the spirit inside Eric to get at the real him. The village subplot also feels fittingly climactic here, with something of a redemptive arc for João – he shares a touching moment with Ciço – in the face of a wind that threatens to displace them more literally than they imagined. ![]() With the Curupira back in the forest and Eric in pursuit, we’re beginning to get that grand finale feeling. Real-world forces continue to conspire against Eric, understandably, with him being bundled away and imprisoned, and Luna taken home, only for Eric to be freed by Camila. That transition is unfurled gradually throughout Invisible City season 1, episode 7, helping to build a sense of inevitability fitting for a finale. Iberê’s rage at the death of Isac, then, has another tinge to it, as we know what his rage is capable of unleashing, especially in his true form. Here, as we see the origin of the Curupira’s flaming head, loss of control, and the demise of the hunter, we get a real sense of the story’s stakes, and how the same themes of vengeance and unchecked emotion have continued to percolate through it. Most importantly, there is a satisfying conclusion to the first season the central mystery is solved and the ending is just open enough to look forward to season two.What has also persisted throughout is the cold opens, many of which have given context without necessarily clarity. You know that scene where one character tells another character about a legend whilst they are looking at an etching in an old book? There is none of that, this story moves fast and no scene is wasted. The tight running time gave enough of a glimpse of the world to leave me wanting more and it’s never bogged down by clumsy exposition. As someone who knows nothing about Brazilian folklore, this was a fresh spin on urban fantasy. The streets are vibrant and the lush forest, like its native creatures, is both seductive and dangerous. Shot on location in Rio, the series is gorgeous to look at. ![]() As he investigates, he discovers ‘entities’, creatures of Brazilian folklore living as people, unnoticed in Rio de Janeiro. Eric believes it is connected to the recent death of his wife, an environmental activist who died in a suspicious forest fire. He finds a dead river dolphin on the beach that turns into a human corpse in the back of his truck. The main protagonist is Eric, a cop in the Environmental Protection Department. The series was created by Carlos Saldanha, who only directed animated kids’ movies so far (Rio, a bunch of Ice Age movies), but this one is very much an adult show my elevator pitch is that it’s a cross between The Constant Gardener and American Gods. I stumbled on it by accident and binged it in a couple of days - with only seven episodes, each less than forty minutes, it was not hard - and I thought it deserved a shout-out. Invisible City dropped on Netflix back in February, but I don’t think it got a lot of promotion.
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