Sob Pressão
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| Genre | Medical drama |
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| Country of origin | Brazil |
| Original language(s) | Portuguese |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 10 (list of episodes) |
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| Production location(s) | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
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| Original network | Rede Globo |
| Original release | 25 July 2017 – present |
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Sob Pressão (English: Under Pressure) is a Brazilian medical drama television series created by Luiz Noronha, Claudio Torres, Renato Fagundes and Jorge Furtado based on the 2016 film of the same name (which was inspired by the Marcio Maranhão book Sob Pressão – A rotina de guerra de um médico brasileiro). The series is a co-production of Conspiração Filmes and Rede Globo, and premiered on 25 July 2017, on Rede Globo.[1]
The series follows the emergency department doctors and nurses of a precarious public hospital in Rio de Janeiro.[2] Júlio Andrade (Dr. Evandro), Marjorie Estiano (Dr. Carolina) and Stepan Nercessian (Samuel) all reprised their movie roles for the television series.
Production for the first season started at the beginning of March 2017. Filming began 10 April 2017.[3] Rede Globo renewed the show for a second season in May 2017, before the first one even started airing.[4] The second season premiered on 9 October 2018.
In May 2018, the series was renewed for a third season.[5]
Plot
Inside a chaotic emergency room in Rio de Janeiro, a team of doctors are torn between their internal personal conflicts, the difficulties of the profession and the surprising dramas behind each patient‘s history, in a heroic attempt to save lives. A talented surgeon and a faith-driven doctor will find strength in each other to face this extremely harsh routine.
Cast
- Júlio Andrade as Dr. Evandro Moreira, a skeptical chief surgeon of the medical staff of a public hospital seeking healing for his sick soul.
- Marjorie Estiano as Dr. Carolina Almeida, a religious vascular surgeon who seeks in faith the antidote against all the misery she faces in her daily life.
- Stepan Nercessian as Dr. Samuel Fagundes, the hospital's director.
- Tatsu Carvalho as Dr. Rafael Albertini, a neurosurgeon.
- Orã Figueiredo as Dr. Amir Salgado, an anesthetist.
- Pablo Sanábio as Dr. Charles Garcia, a resident.
- Heloisa Jorge as Jaqueline Vaz, a nurse.
- Josie Antello as Rosa, the hospital's recepcionist.
- Alexandre David as Cabo A Adalberto Santos
- Talita Castro as Kelly Cristina Ribeiro, a nursing technique. (season 1)
- Bruno Garcia as Dr. Décio Guedes, a general practitioner.
- Humberto Carrão as Dr. Henrique Figueira (season 2–)
- Fernanda Torres as Dr. Renata Veiga (season 2–)
Episodes
| Series | Episodes | Originally aired | |||
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| 1 | 9 | 25 July 2017 | 19 September 2017 | ||
| 2 | TBA | 9 October 2018 | TBA | ||
Season 1 (2017)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Brazil viewers (points) |
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| 1 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Jorge Furtado, Lucas Paraizo, Antonio Prata & Márcio Alemão | 25 July 2017 | 28.2[6] |
| One year prior to the main events of the series, Dr. Evandro is seen about to perform surgery on his own severely wounded wife, Madalena, against the advice of his medical team. The surgery proves ineffective and she dies. Back to the present, Evandro performs surgery on a pregnant woman hit by a car and attempts to treat both her and her baby improvising medical instruments to compensate the lack of adequate tools. Later, electricity goes down and her recovery is compromised, but the doctors manage to hold their own manually and with blood donations. Meanwhile, Carolina makes a boy swallow the gum that was supposedly asphyxiating him. Later, she learns the boy's older brother, who brought him to the hospital, sells drugs, and suspects the boy was actually chocking on cocaine. She also looks after an old samba singer struggling with throat cancer and disappointed with the possibility of having to live his remaining years without cachaça. He succumbs to his disease during surgery. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Antonio Prata | 1 August 2017 | 25.7[7] |
| Evandro's team operate a tumor inside a radio presenter's brain that may affect her voice. The first surgery proves a partial success and a second one is required, but she is reluctant since her voice is her work instrument and despite the doctors warning her of the risks. A man named Valter arrives with his passed out teenage daughter, Michele and claims she took lots of tranquilizers. Carolina saves her but notices bruises on her arm. Later, Valter demands to see his daughter and storms in the intensive care unit. Michele is horrified by her father’s approaching and defenestrates, worsening her condition. Carolina talks to her and finally learns Valter abuses her. A corpus delicti examination is performed and the father is taken away by the police. Samuel asks Evandro to sign a document giving thumbs up to the acquisition of a tomograph that is worth half its informed price. He notices it's an over-invoicing scheme and refuses to sign the papers. Samuel convinces a reluctant Evandro to sign them. Evandro and Carolina have sex and discuss Evandro's wife's death and Carolina's past – she reveals she has been cutting herself after constant abuses from her father. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Lucas Paraizo | 8 August 2017 | 26.7[8] |
| A young man arrives following a serious road accident and the team manages to reactivate his heart, but he ends up brain dead. Evandro urges his mother Bete to allow his organs to be donated before they stop working, but she refuses to recognize his death. Carolina checks his wallet and finds a document in which he declares himself as an organ donator. Upon seeing the document, Bete finally agrees to authorize the transplants. An unnamed, foreign passed out woman, Keisha, hailing from Benin. Charles finds a picture of her with a man and a pamphlet of a pizzeria in her pocket. He heads there and finds out a whorehouse operates nextdoor. He arranges a private room with another girl and learns they are victims of sex trafficking. Charles manages to have a diplomat from the Benin consulate come to the hospital to assist Keisha and have her testify to the police so the gang can be arrested. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Jorge Furtado | 15 August 2017 | 28.5[9] |
| Evandro treats some wounds on a woman called Talita and believes she has been physically assaulted by her partner, though she states she simply fell down some stairs. Carolina pressures Evandro to denounce the husband to the authorities, but the doctor does not wish to go against the vicitm's will. On the next day, Francisco arrives with a knife wound on his chest claiming it was Talita. Carolina tells him she regrets the knife missed his heart and says she will have him arrested. Later, Francisco tells a police officer he was assaulted by two thieves, but Talita arrives and finally reveals that she attacked him on self-defense from his aggressions. A blind man called Romero arrives with his guide dog Astro after both were hit by a car. The team takes the man inside, but the dog is left outside and alone. Later, Evandro and Amir perform a surgery on the animal, which recovers and leaves with his owner. Later, Astro comes running back to the hospital and Evandro has it take him to a passed out Romero, who is rushed back to the hospital and saved again. However, Samuel reprehends Evandro for treating an animal in front of the hospital. Madalena's mother informs Samuel she intends to sue Evandro following his failed (and anti-ethical) attempt to save her. Amir, who is revealed to be dating two women who don't know about each other, barely escapes a situation in which both his girlfriends came to the hospital simultaneously. Carolina and Evandro have sex in his apartment, but she finds out about the pictures he's been secretly taking of her and angrily leaves. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Episode 5" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Márcio Alemão | 22 August 2017 | 28.4[10] |
| A woman called Apolônia (Zezé Motta) arrives complaining of a possible mosquito bite. The doctors investigate and are surprised to find out she is actually carrying a stray bullet in her heart. Following a delicate surgery, they manage to safely remove it from her. Later, she intends to take the 382 steps of the stairway leading up to the Our Lady of Peñafrancia Church and place the bullet at the foot of the saint's image, despite the doctors recommending her not to make such an effort so soon. Evandro approaches her as she walks up the stairs and tells her of a dream he had in which she asked him to place the bullet there. She ends up letting him do it. A man called Maicon (Rafael Losso) brings his wife to the hospital as she undergoes labor. He tells Evandro he suspects he got the HIV virus from a previous relationship and that he may have passed it to his wife (who is unaware of his condition) and, consequently, to his son. Evandro examines him and the suspicion comes true. Maicon reveals his condition to his wife and she angrily tells him to leave. The doctors run some examinations on both the woman and the child and find out they are HIV free. The woman ultimately forgives Maicon. Carolina avoids contact with Evandro following their argument in the end of the previous episode. She treats Teo (Pedro Lamin), a victim of a car accident who wasn't wearing his seatbelt, and spots some bruises on him similar to the ones she caused herself. After he recovers, they have dinner together. Later, Carolina starts talking to Evandro again. Amir narrowly escapes another situation in which both his girlfriends are on the hospital at the same time. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Episode 6" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Márcio Alemão | 29 August 2017 | 28.8[11] |
| A van crashes and all injured passengers are brought to the hospital, prompting Evandro to summon his entire team to handle all the victims. Carolina, however, is with Teo and ignores all phone calls. As they have sex, he tries to strangle her and she stabs him in self-defense. Then, she brings him to the hospital and secretly treats him in the dressing room. As she leaves the room, Teo sends her footage of them having sex and demands to see her again on the next day or he'll leak it. Among the victims of the van accident is a mature married man who keeps a secret relationship with a younger man and decides to reveal his affair to his wife, who doesn't understand it and angrily leaves. Another victim is an elderly man who swallowed some jewelry. When questioned about this, he reveals he stole them after being fired from a jewelry store in which he worked for decades just before his retirement in order to pay for his wife's medical care. Evandro and Rafael examine the van's driver, who apparently collapsed at the wheel. Meanwhile, a man angrily insults him in the corridor and not even the driver's wife presence stops him from suggesting he was driving under influence. Evandro and Rafael discover the driver had a heart problem that caused his brain to receive no blood, leading him to the collapse. They also discover the man died after being lynched and reveal it to everyone in the hospital. Eventually, the angry man apologizes for his behavior. A man tries to leave his father-in-law in the hospital for treatment, but Evandro believes he is just trying to get rid of the old man to enjoy the weekend and rejects the patient. The man obtains a warrant demanding Evandro to operate on his father-in-law, but the doctor refuses in order to give full attention to the more urgent victims. Later, he is arrested for disobeying the warrant and offers no resistance out of clean consciousness of his choice. Due to his arrest, he misses the first audience of the case regarding the death of his wife. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "Episode 7" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Antonio Prata | 5 September 2017 | 26[12] |
| A carpenter arrives after sawing his thumb off, but asks the team not to reimplant it because he is actually attempting to earn insurance money in order to pay his debts to some loan sharks. Evandro promises him he will be safe in the hospital and indeed foils an attempt on the carpenter's life with the help of the hospital guard. Teo breaks in Carolina's apartment and blackmails her into getting there to see him. Once there, she leaks the footage herself in order to end his control over her. After the images go viral, Samuel suggests she takes some time off until the fuss is over. As she goes home, her father (Luís Melo), who has always been an atheist, reappears after a long time and invites her to the Pentecostal church he founded. Ivaldo, the old man who piratically lives at the hospital, is sent to surgery after a dangerous tumor is found in his axilla. His estranged wife comes to see him and the two reconnect after he survives the surgery, finally allowing him to leave the hospital. Evandro attends the rescheduled hearing session of his case and is confronted with a medical prescription with an abortifacient he supposedly prescribed for Madalena not long before her death, which he doesn't recognize in spite of his signature. Later, Rafael reacts strangely to Samuel's accounts of Evandro's audience and ends up admitting he and Madalena had an affair and that she was pregnant of him, revealing the reason she was seeking an abortion. Amir makes a reservation in a restaurant to have lunch with one of his girlfriends but accidentally invites the other girlfriend to the same place and time. The two meet and find out about Amir's lies before he arrives, but both decide to pretend everything is normal in order to take advantage of him. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "Episode 8" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Lucas Paraizo | 13 September 2017 | 27.5[13] |
| The team is unable to save a girl wounded by a stray bullet and the father charges towards a pillar out of insanity after hearing the news, hitting it head first and fainting. When he wakes up, he has no memory of his daughter's death and his wife is reluctant about telling him the truth. When he recovers and is about to leave the hospital, Evandro decides to tell him the truth and he cries. A bride arrives with an open fracture following a car crash on the way to the church. She asks her fiancée to marry her right there in the hospital before anything worse happens and a reluctant Décio arranges for a justice of the peace to go there and officially marry the couple. In another audience regarding Madalena's death, examinations on her remains and video footage of a drugstore reveal she indeed took abortifacients and was pregnant, unbeknownst to both Evandro and his ex-mother-in-law. After the audience, Rafael reveals the truth to Evandro, who responds by punching him in the face. Still suspended from the hospital, Carolina holds a voluntary medical check-up event at her father's church, assisted by Kelly. She notices a bruise in one of the church's employees, Roberta. Later, she witness her father abusing the woman and decides to expose him to everyone in the church during a cult. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "Episode 9" | Andrucha Waddington & Mini Kerti | Jorge Furtado, Lucas Paraizo, Antonio Prata & Márcio Alemão | 19 September 2017 | 27.3[14] |
| The hospital is operating at its limit and Evandro tells everyone to return another day for his team will only be able to treat life-threatening cases. They barely save one patient as they run out of oxygen, but after several requests, it is finally delivered to the hospital. Carolina notices the hospital paid five times more for every m³ of oxygen and suspects of over-invoicing, but Samuel reminds her it's either that or they'll start losing patients. Later, at the court room, Evandro is close to having his medical license suspended, but Rafael finally speaks and reveals Madalena suspected the child was his and therefore took the abortifacients which most likely caused her death. Following the audience, Evandro and Madalena's mother share a tearful hug. Amir's girlfriends give him date rape drugs and then film him as he wakes up trapped in a attic without a roof in which he stays for hours and develops burns as a consequence. They also leak the video on the internet. Kelly treats him and they make out. Carolina's father tells her her mother always knew about his abuses but neither her nor her family did a thing about it because they depended on his money. He also asks her to drop the charges on him, but she refuses and leaves. Back home, she slits her wrists while Evandro buys food at a supermarket and helps a costumer with epilepsy. Later, Evandro rescues Carolina and takes her to the hospital, where he performs surgery on her and almost loses her just like he lost Madalena. The father of the man Evandro helped in the supermarket pays him a visit at the hospital and offers him a position at his luxurious hospital, which Evandro accepts. In his new job, Evandro is uncomfortable with the advanced machines facilitating his work. One day, a train accident leaves lots of injured people and prompts Carolina to call Evandro for additional support. He cancels his appointments for the rest of the day and heads to the hospital. | ||||||
Season 2 (2018)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Brazil viewers (points) |
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| 10 | 1 | "Episode 1" | Andrucha Waddington | Lucas Paraizo | 9 October 2018 | 22.5[15] |
Ratings and reception
Aired in Brazil since 25 July, in Globo’s late prime time, the series attracts a high audience, reaching an average of more than 38 million viewers per episode.[16]
| Season | Timeslot (BRT/AMT) | Episodes | First aired | Last aired | TV season | Rank | Avg. viewers (points) | ||
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| Date | Viewers (points) |
Date | Viewers (points) | ||||||
| 1 | Tuesday 10:30pm | 9 | 25 July 2017 | 28.2[6] | 19 September 2017 | 27.3[14] | 2017 | TBA | 27.45[17] |
| 2 | 11 | 9 October 2018 | 22.5[15] | TBA | 2018 | TBA | |||
References
- ↑ "'Sob Pressão': elenco, autores e diretores apresentam nova série | Bastidores | Gshow". gshow.globo.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
- ↑ "'Sob Pressão': entenda a trama da série médica genuinamente brasileira | tv | Gshow". gshow.globo.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
- ↑ "'Sob pressão', série da Globo, estreará no segundo semestre - Patrícia Kogut, O Globo". kogut.oglobo.globo.com. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
- ↑ "Globo assegura segunda temporada de "Sob Pressão" antes mesmo de estrear a primeira". rd1.com.br. Retrieved 2017-07-11.
- ↑ Kogut, Patrícia (18 May 2018). "'Sob Pressão' terá terceira temporada na Globo" (in Portuguese). O Globo. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
- 1 2 Peccoli, Vitor (26 July 2017). ""Sob Pressão" tem maior audiência da linha de shows desde 2012 e "A Força do Querer" repete recorde". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ↑ Peccoli, Vitor (2 August 2017). "Bial perde para reprise do SBT e fica em segundo na audiência; confira os consolidados desta terça-feira (01/08/17)". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ↑ Peccoli, Vitor (9 August 2017). ""MasterChef" vence a Record e chega a bater a Globo na audiência; confira os consolidados desta terça-feira (08/08/17)". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 15 August 2017.
- ↑ Peccoli, Vitor (16 August 2017). ""A Força do Querer" passa dos 40 e "Pega Pega" iguala recorde de audiência; confira os consolidados desta terça-feira (15/08/17)". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 22 August 2017.
- ↑ Peccoli, Vitor (23 August 2017). "Final do "MasterChef" vence Globo, dá o dobro da Record e bate recorde de ibope; confira os consolidados desta terça-feira (22/08/17)". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ↑ Peccoli, Vitor (30 August 2017). ""A Força do Querer" iguala recorde de audiência com revelação de Ivana; confira os consolidados desta terça-feira (29/08/17)". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 6 September 2017.
- ↑ Peccoli, Vitor (6 September 2017). "Globo bate recorde de audiência com "Pega Pega", "A Força do Querer" e jornais; confira os consolidados desta terça-feira (05/09/17)". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- ↑ Peccoli, Vitor (13 September 2017). ""A Fazenda 9" levanta Record, mas tem pior audiência de estreia; confira os consolidados desta terça-feira (12/09/17)". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 20 September 2017.
- 1 2 Peccoli, Vitor (20 September 2017). ""MasterChef Profissionais" tem pior audiência desde a estreia; confira os consolidados desta terça-feira (19/09/17)". TV Foco (in Portuguese). Retrieved 22 September 2017.
- 1 2 "Amor & Sexo reestreia com pior ibope da história e perde para a Record". Notícias da TV (in Portuguese). 10 October 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
- ↑ Globo’s series ‘Under Pressure’ to air at Toronto International Film Festival
- ↑ "SOB PRESSÃO – 1ª TEMPORADA".
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