When Paulo Betti announced that he would play a gay blogger, the hint that it was a character focused on humor was already given. However, a few weeks after the premiere of Império, Téo began to divide opinions.
While some say that the blogger is too caricatured, others claim that he is not funny and there are even those, on the other hand, who defend the presence of different types of gays and that the desire to not want caricatured gays on the screen is the result of internalized homophobia .
The TV columnist Flavio Ricco he stated in his column on UOL that Betti is so busy that "even for Zorra Total he would pass as someone who doesn't exist", and not as someone possible.
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"The composition is caricatured and exaggerated. Not even in the revue theater of the past would this have been achieved", explained the journalist, also highlighting director Rogério Gomes' "carelessness" with the scenes.
For Jeff Benicio, TV journalist from Terra, the implication of Téo's mannerisms comes from the patrol that "gay people don't need to look so hot". "If a villain can be exaggeratedly evil, a heroine can be exaggeratedly romantic, why can't a gay character be exaggeratedly gay?"
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The journalist highlights that Félix, a character in Matthew Solano in Amor à Vida, he was also caricatured and even wore a flower in his hair, but the villain had much more charisma and offered popular humor. "Téo is pure poison. The humor presented so far has not been well digested by the public. And the justification for his toxic behavior has not yet proven convincing."
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