TV series

Grande Sertão: Veredas

1985 · 1 season

A slow, brooding journey through a harsh backland, heavy with memory, violence, and tangled loyalties.

Overview: A cowboy narrates his 'jagunço' life of disputes, revenges, loves and deaths, through the years that he traveled central-east Brazil, in the first decades of the 20th century, while federal troops were in conflict with provincial forces.
How it feels: Melancholic, tense, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Revenge, loyalty, violence, love
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: revenge
loyalty
violence
love
identity
Places: countryside
wilderness
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild