Prime Video’s Tremembé Draws Big Audience, Faces Accuracy Pushback

Overview

• The five-episode series premiered on Oct. 31 and quickly climbed to the top of Prime Video’s most-watched rankings in Brazil.
• Cristian Cravinhos denounced his depiction on social media as “muita mentira,” specifically rejecting a prison romance shown in the series.
• Journalist Ullisses Campbell, a series writer, saw his book Tremembé: O presídio dos famosos reach Amazon’s top-10 bestsellers after the show’s debut.
• The creative team confirms invented dialogue and compressed timelines for narrative effect, and says the production was subjected to legal review before release.
• The series references Acir Filló’s Diário de Tremembé, a book barred from sale by a São Paulo court in 2019, as the author reemerges in interviews discussing his portrayal and the ban.