INVISIBLE CITY NETFLIX SERIES

On MaNetflix announced that the series has just been renewed for a second season.

The series reached the list of most watched content on Netflix in more than 40 countries, including Brazil, for at least one day. The series follows an environmental police officer who uncovers a hidden world of mythological entities from Brazilian folklore when he finds a connection between the mysterious appearance of a dead river dolphin on a Rio de Janeiro beach and the death of his beloved wife. The fist season was released on February 5, 2021. The series is Carlos Saldanha first live-action series. On his way out, he accidentally leaves his prosthetic leg behind, but Eric doesn’t notice since Luna wants him to read to her from a book of Brazilian folklore, particularly about Saci, a one-legged trickster with a red bandanna.Invisible City (Portuguese: Cidade Invisível) is a Brazilian fantasy crime-drama series created by Oscar nominee director Carlos Saldanha.

While he’s inside, Isac breaks into his home and distracts Luna with some sleight-of-hand magic. The only real voice of dissent comes from João, who obviously stands to personally benefit from the construction and thinks all the talk of folklore is a bit ridiculous.īy the time Eric gets the dolphin to the veterinary forensics lab, the expert isn’t there, forcing him to drive home with the thing still in the back of the truck. Ciço, an older traditionalist, certainly seems to think so, and considers the fish a particularly worrying omen, and his opinion seems to be the consensus. When they get there, the news that a construction company is trying to buy up all the land implies that both the fire and the fish might have been deliberate acts of sabotage to displace the locals. The trouble for Isac is that Eric has the critter on ice in the back of his truck since he insisted on going to Tore Village with his partner, Marcia, since that’s where Gabi died and the latest news that all the fish there are dead implies a larger conspiracy that might well relate to her death. In response to the disruption, a young homeless man named Isac is tasked by another of their conspirators, a hulk by the name of Tutu, to recover the dolphin’s corpse. Camila quickly reports to Inês, her superior of some kind, that she was unable to return the dolphin’s body back to the water. Standard flashbacks and visions, including one in which Eric imagines Gabi running alongside the beach with him, prove that he’s far from over her death, and far from stable enough to be conducting an investigation into it.īut the discovery of a river dolphin washed up on the beach means Eric has no choice but to do so, especially since the people milling around the discovery, including a woman whose name we later learn is Camila, disappear as soon as he arrives. In a small scene between Eric and Luna, as they comb through a box of old belongings, including photographs and newspaper clippings which reveal Gabi’s profession and desire to turn the forest into a reserve, it’s obvious that finding out what happened to his wife is more than a whodunit for Eric. Eric’s not having that, obviously, but it’s surprising how far he’s willing to go - and how quickly! - to keep the matter relevant.

When we catch up with Eric a month later as he’s finally returning to work at the Environmental Police, it’s unsurprising to see him raging that his boss, Ivo, has closed the investigation into Gabi’s death, ruling it an accident. By the time Eric arrives, Gabi is dead, her eyes white, and their daughter, Luna, is traumatized.Ī grieving, obsessive protagonist is nothing new. That’s literally what Gabriela, an anthropologist and conservationist, says to her husband, Eric, in a video message she sends him lamenting his absence from a party that is quickly ruined when a raging fire starts in the woods. See also the episode’s title, “Wish You Were Here”.

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