''Spectros'' is a Brazilian
supernatural
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streaming television series that premiered on
Netflix
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on February 20, 2020. The seven-episode series is run by writer-director
Douglas Petrie
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and produced by Moonshot Pictures.
According to Doug Petrie, the series is a mix of Brazilian folklore and history, with elements of Japanese ghost tales, represented by the colorful streets of
Liberdade district, home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan in the world.
Plot
The show is in the
Liberdade district in
São Paulo
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. Spectros tells the story of a group of five teenagers who are accidentally attracted to a supernatural reality that they can not comprehend and that connects to the same location of the city in 1908. When confronted by increasingly bizarre and gloomy events, the group comes to an inevitable conclusion: someone is bringing the dead back, and the spirits want revenge for the mistakes committed in the past.
Cast
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Danilo Mesquita
Danilo Mesquita Santos de Oliveira (born 26 February 1992), is a Brazilian actor and singer.
Career
Before becoming an actor, he dedicated himself for seven years to football. At the age of 18, he tried modeling, but he became an actor at the ...
*Enzo Barone
*Cláudia Okuno
*Pedro Carvalho
*Mariana Sena
Episodes
References
External links
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{{Netflix original current series
2020 Brazilian television series debuts
Brazilian drama television series
Brazilian supernatural television series
Netflix original programming
Portuguese-language television shows
Television series about teenagers
Television shows filmed in São Paulo (state)
Television shows set in São Paulo