Andando Nas Nuvens

Translated as Walking on the Clouds, Andando nas Nuvens was the debut soap opera from writer Euclydes Marinho, and it’s notable for the way he’s turned a seldom comedic genre on its head. Set in Rio De Janeiro, this story follows Otávio Montana (Marco Nanini), a man who has spent eighteen years in a coma. When he wakes to find his three daughters (Déborah Bloch, Viviane Pasmanter, and Mariana Ximenes) have grown up, he doesn’t quite know how to handle the journalist, model, and aspiring nun that they have become. With the requisite hunt for the killer of someone’s father thrown in, the way Otávio has to relearn the ways of the world makes this far more entertaining than the usual telenovela, and his attractive daughters don’t hurt the potential male audience numbers. And of course Julia Lemmertz is in this series, like she is in every series, having shown her nice hairy arbusto in 1999’s Um Copo De Cólera