10 Brazilian soap operas that are not from Globo, but were very successful

Brazil is a world reference in television drama. Over the years, broadcasters have accumulated experience in the format that, today, is produced with great quality. TV Globo is certainly the main responsible for establishing the genre in our country and accumulates dozens of unforgettable plots in its curriculum. However, other channels have also already felt the taste of success, airing serials that fell in popular taste.

With that in mind, we awesome.club, let’s remember now some Brazilian soap operas that were not shown by Globo, but reached high ratings and generated a lot of repercussions. Check out!

The history of we were six, a book by Maria José Dupré, has already been adapted for television on five occasions. One of the versions most remembered by the public is the 1994 version, shown on SBT, an audience success that also ensured a good critical reception. The plot, considered one of the best soap operas produced by Silvio Santos’ broadcaster, followed the life of the Lemos family over the years, under the gaze of the matriarch, Dona Lola (Irene Ravache).

In 1990, a rural plot was the great bet of the extinct TV Manchete to compete with Globo soap operas. With the authorship of Benedito Ruy Barbosa, renowned novelist, and a sharp cast that squandered talent, the station seemed to have found the formula for success. Pantanal achieved the feat of defeating Globo in ratings and immortalized the character of Cristiana Oliveira, Juma Marruá, in the Brazilian popular imagination.

In 2015, Record decided to bet on a niche and aired its first soap opera inspired by the scriptures of the Bible. The journey of Moses (Guilherme Winter) in The ten Commandments consolidated itself as one of the greatest successes of the broadcaster’s teledramaturgy, even surpassing Globo in the IBOPE measurement. In addition to the story, the production invested in special effects, artifices that marked the sequences of the plagues of Egypt and the parting of the Red Sea.

Anyone who was a child in the 1990s probably danced the “move, move, move your hands” watching Chiquititas🇧🇷 Based on an original Argentine work, the SBT soap opera, which followed the adventures of the little residents of Orfanato Raio de Luz, marked the childhood of many people. In total, five seasons of the plot were produced, shown between 1997 and 2001. A success on TV and in music, the albums with the songs that accompanied the story sold millions of copies.

In 2005, Globo was facing an audience crisis at seven o’clock with the failure of bang bang, the western soap opera. In the same period, Record promoted a contemporary serial, with classic plots that captivated the viewer. success on the small screen, Proof of love featured a cast of actors already known to the general public, who helped tell the story of the parents looking for their kidnapped daughter.

Production of Rede Manchete launched in 1996, xica da Silva bet on the then newbie Taís Araújo, at the time aged 18, to embody the main character. The daring novel, written by Walcyr Carrasco, told the story of a former slave with a thirst for justice who wanted to take revenge on everyone who humiliated her in the past. The plot caused controversy at the time of its broadcast, as a result of the shocking scenes of violence and eroticism that were frequent in the chapters.

Aired from 2006 to 2007 by Record TV, Opposite Lives gained fame by representing Rio’s communities in a way not yet seen in Brazilian television drama. The love story between a rich young man from the South Zone and a resident of the favela was addressed in a text full of social criticism. The villain Jacson (Heitor Martinez), head of the hill, was a hit with the public. Praised for its realism, the plot won the Press Trophy for Best Novel in 2008, being the first produced outside Globo to win the award since we were sixfrom SBT, in 1995.

the franchise Paths of the Heart it was on the air for two years. Three seasons were produced, between 2007 and 2009, in a total of 587 chapters. The “soap opera of the mutants” was a success with the audience, but it did not escape critics who despised the text and the special effects. A kind of Brazilian X-Men, the plot is still remembered on social networks thanks to the picturesque scenes that became memes.

In 2012, more than ten years after the end of Chiquititas, SBT returned to invest in children’s productions in its prime time. The story chosen to launch the new range of telenovelas was Carouselin a Brazilian version adapted from the original Mexican work, which had already been successful here in the 1990s. The adventures of the Escola Mundial students became a phenomenon among children and immortalized characters such as Cirilo (Jean Paulo Campos) and Maria Joaquina (Larissa Manoela).

The novel by Bernardo Guimarães had already been adapted by Globo in the form of a soap opera in 1976, written by Gilberto Braga and starring Lucélia Santos. The plot was a great success and marked an era. The classic story of the young white woman raised as a slave gained a second television version, produced on Record almost 30 years later. The Slave Isaurawith Bianca Rinaldi in the role of the protagonist, premiered in 2004 and conquered the public once again.

Did you follow any of these soap operas? Do you remember other plots produced outside Globo that were great successes? Tell us in the comments!