Unsuspicious Season 1 review: A yawn-inducing womanizer and his tired jilted lovers; no fun

1.5/5

STORY: Three women are determined to bust a womaniser's, um, 'bottoms', but that sweet smell of revenge had evaporated long before they could even park themselves at the heart stealer's mansion—he's dead and the ladies are now part of a police investigation. If you haven't comprehended already, this one's a template comedy with template characters. Watch at your own risk. 

REVIEW: To call it a low-budget, hybrid production of American-Pie-meets-Fifty-Shades would be an insult to the writers representing either of the two camps (or both?), and that's a pretty bold statement to make considering their combined reputation. Unlike the aforementioned franchises' cheap yet well-timed sleaziness, Unsuspicious, for one, does not even try to explore beyond grad-school-level writing and inculcates the kind of comedy that walks a fine line between torture and embarassment... frame after frame. 

Jorginho Peixoto (Paulo Tiefenthaler) couldn't keep it in his pants and so, he married three different women and conned them in ways only a charming sociopath would. As the long and stretched-out story progresses, new clues and possible hints, as to who has killed this widely detested creature, are thrown in along the way. The catch, though, is that the viewers are checked out and the makers cannot pull them back in with whatever form of storytelling they were trying to showcase in this haphazard show. What is all the more shocking is, in fact, Netflix Brazil's decision to greenlight the project in the first place. 

The actors, mainly because they are caught up in a dated comedy, seem like kids deliberately pretending to be lost at a fair for some good-old attention. The narrative has abolsutely no—ZERO!—hooks, and if it wasn't for my job, I would have personally begged directors César Rodrigues and Eduardo Vaisman to show mercy on humanity and stop!

Unsuspicious is epically slothful and no, we did not suspect that. 

VERDICT: Do yourself a favour—invest your time in something more prodcutive this weekend and NOT watching this train wreck of a show.