# Sintonia
**Sintonia** is a Brazilian drama series produced for Netflix that follows three friends from a São Paulo favela whose lives diverge through funk music, drug trafficking, and evangelical religion. It premiered on 9 August 2019 with a first season of six 40-minute episodes and ran for five seasons, ending on 5 February 2025.[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) • [2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/get-to-it-fam-the-fifth-and-final-season-of-sintonia-drops-february-5)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Premiere | 9 August 2019, exclusively on Netflix; first season of six 40-minute episodes[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) |
| Creators | KondZilla, Guilherme Quintella, and Felipe Braga[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) |
| Main cast | Christian Malheiros (Nando), Jottapê (Doni), Bruna Mascarenhas (Rita)[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) |
| Setting | The fictional Vila Áurea community, Zona Leste of São Paulo[3](https://revistas.ufpr.br/revistax/article/view/74850) |
| Run | Five seasons, 2019 to 2025; the fourth season had eight episodes, the others six[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/get-to-it-fam-the-fifth-and-final-season-of-sintonia-drops-february-5) • [4](https://br.justwatch.com/br/serie/sintonia) |
| Audience standing | In 2023 it reached first place in the Global Top 10 for non-English-language shows; Netflix calls it its biggest Brazilian series[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/get-to-it-fam-the-fifth-and-final-season-of-sintonia-drops-february-5) |
| Production companies | Losbragas (season 1); Gullane Entretenimento (season 4)[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) • [5](https://pgo.academiabrasileiradecinema.com.br/obra/sintonia/) |
## Spoilers
### Premise and characters
The series is narrated from the point of view of three characters and explores the worlds of music, crime, and religion in the city of São Paulo.[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) Doni (Jottapê) wants to become a famous funk singer while dealing with his family's pressure to build a professional career; Rita (Bruna Mascarenhas), a street vendor, dreams of better days within the financial and spiritual world of an evangelical church in the community; and Nando (Christian Malheiros), a drug dealer, wants to rise in crime to secure a more comfortable life for his newborn son.[6](https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/cultura-e-lazer/tv/noticia/2019/08/kondzilla-conta-sua-historia-em-nova-serie-da-netflix-sintonia-cjz4an998010d01pa39at8to8.html)
The three grow up together on the streets of the fictional Vila Áurea in the city's east zone, but their different childhood experiences lead them down different paths.[3](https://revistas.ufpr.br/revistax/article/view/74850) • [7](https://editora.pucrs.br/edipucrs/acessolivre/anais/simposio-juventudes-contemporaneas/assets/edicoes/2021/arquivos/6.pdf) The friendship of the trio remains the emotional core of the series across its run, even as each character's story rises and falls within its own world.[8](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia-5-ultima-temporada)
### Seasons
The first season, released in August 2019, follows the trio's early steps: Doni hoping to become a funk star, Nando trying to build a career in trafficking, and Rita worrying about a friend.[12](https://www.netflix.com/br/title/80217315?source=35) Critics received it as a courageous attempt to show life in the periphery from within, while noting a lack of focus in the storytelling.[10](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia)
The second season, arriving after a two-year gap, was judged to have matured the narrative, working the convergence of the three storylines with more dynamism and depth; its release year coincided with the Atlas da Violência 2021 finding that [Black people](https://www.edgepedia.org/black-people) were 77% of homicide victims in Brazil, a context the season's treatment of police-and-trafficker violence engaged with directly.[13](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia-2-temporada) The third season brought each character to the top of his or her world, with Nando becoming head of the criminal organization, Doni at the peak of musical fame, and Rita moving into politics before rejecting the mixing of religion and the political platform.[14](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia-3a-temporada)
The fourth season followed the consequences of the friends' decisions: Nando facing the fallout of his choices in crime for himself, his friends, and his family; Doni, after an accident, seeking a new direction for his career and returning to his origins in Vila Áurea; and Rita, beginning law studies, questioning her belief in Brazilian justice.[5](https://pgo.academiabrasileiradecinema.com.br/obra/sintonia/) The fifth and final season, titled "O Último Corre," premiered on 5 February 2025 with six episodes and is set four years after the previous season: Rita achieves her dream of becoming an attorney but faces a professional dilemma, Doni makes a crucial decision affecting the VA Records label, and Nando hatches a risky plan.[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/get-to-it-fam-the-fifth-and-final-season-of-sintonia-drops-february-5) • [15](https://www.tecmundo.com.br/minha-serie/600625-temporada-5-de-sintonia-tem-quantos-episodios-veja-tempo-para-maratonar.htm)
## Creation and production
The series came from an original idea by [KondZilla](https://www.edgepedia.org/kondzilla) ([Konrad Dantas](https://www.edgepedia.org/konrad-dantas)), a prominent Brazilian funk music producer, developed with Felipe Braga and Guilherme Quintella.[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) • [8](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia-5-ultima-temporada) KondZilla described the project as a long process that began in his adolescence, when he lived in a favela in Guarujá and absorbed the stories of the people around him; the first season was produced by Losbragas, with Rita Moraes, Felipe Braga, and [Alice Braga](https://www.edgepedia.org/alice-braga) as producers, and was written by Quintella, Duda Almeida, and Thays Berbe with Pedro Furtado as head writer.[9](https://popseries.com.br/entrevista-kondzilla-sintonia-1-temporada-netflix/) • [1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) It was filmed in São Paulo in the second half of 2018.[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) • [7](https://editora.pucrs.br/edipucrs/acessolivre/anais/simposio-juventudes-contemporaneas/assets/edicoes/2021/arquivos/6.pdf)
Directing was shared between KondZilla and Johnny Araújo in the first season, with KondZilla directing half of the six episodes.[1](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho) • [10](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia) From the fourth season the production company was Gullane Entretenimento, with Caio Gullane and Fabiano Gullane as executive producers and episodes directed by Johnny Araújo, Daniela Carvalho, and Denis Cisma.[5](https://pgo.academiabrasileiradecinema.com.br/obra/sintonia/) • [2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/get-to-it-fam-the-fifth-and-final-season-of-sintonia-drops-february-5)
The director Johnny Araújo summarized the intended perspective as "an inside-out look, never a voyeuristic view of the periphery," noting that religion and crime are both present in the periphery and that the production took care to avoid judgment.[11](https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/ilustrada/2025/02/sintonia-une-a-fe-a-musica-e-o-crime-na-periferia-em-quinta-e-ultima-temporada.shtml)
## Reception and cultural context
Netflix describes Sintonia as its biggest Brazilian series and the Brazilian show with the most seasons; in 2023 it reached first place in the Global Top 10 for non-English-language shows.[2](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/get-to-it-fam-the-fifth-and-final-season-of-sintonia-drops-february-5) On the review aggregator AdoroCinema, user ratings average 4.0 out of 5 across 477 ratings.[16](https://www.adorocinema.com/series/serie-23399/criticas/) [JustWatch](https://www.edgepedia.org/justwatch) lists an IMDb rating of 6.8 from about 2,100 users and an age rating of 16.[4](https://br.justwatch.com/br/serie/sintonia)
Academic commentary has focused on the series' representation of peripheral youth culture. A 2021 study characterized it as an analysis of the reach of its representativeness in contemporary youth culture, following three friends in a São Paulo periphery whose paths diverge through drug trafficking, religion, and music.[7](https://editora.pucrs.br/edipucrs/acessolivre/anais/simposio-juventudes-contemporaneas/assets/edicoes/2021/arquivos/6.pdf) A 2020 article argued that the series aims to break with stereotypes and show the reality of the favela "from the inside," with funk as a central element.[3](https://revistas.ufpr.br/revistax/article/view/74850)
The series' language drew attention in its own right: the São Paulo periphery slang spoken by the characters, terms such as "fluxo" for a street funk party with cars fitted with loud sound systems, forms a dialect unfamiliar to outsiders, and Brazilian media published glossaries of the show's vocabulary.[17](https://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/series/o-que-e-mulher-perrequeira-e-nave-no-fluxo-entenda-o-dialeto-de-sintonia-28763) The street funk gatherings the series depicts, known as fluxos or bailes, are documented in ethnographic research as consolidated festive centers of funk culture in São Paulo's peripheries.[18](https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/proa/article/view/16801)
## References
1. [Defina seu caminho, About Netflix (27 June 2019)](https://about.netflix.com/pt_br/news/defina-seu-caminho)
2. [Get To It, Fam: The Fifth and Final Season of 'Sintonia' Drops February 5 on Netflix, About Netflix (17 December 2024)](https://about.netflix.com/en/news/get-to-it-fam-the-fifth-and-final-season-of-sintonia-drops-february-5)
3. [Sobre rompimentos de estereótipos: Sintonia, Revista X (2020)](https://revistas.ufpr.br/revistax/article/view/74850)
4. [Sintonia (2019), JustWatch](https://br.justwatch.com/br/serie/sintonia)
5. [Sintonia, Prêmio Grande Otelo do Cinema Brasileiro](https://pgo.academiabrasileiradecinema.com.br/obra/sintonia/)
6. [KondZilla conta sua história em nova série da Netflix, "Sintonia", GZH (2019)](https://gauchazh.clicrbs.com.br/cultura-e-lazer/tv/noticia/2019/08/kondzilla-conta-sua-historia-em-nova-serie-da-netflix-sintonia-cjz4an998010d01pa39at8to8.html)
7. ["Sintonia" e a sua representação na cultura juvenil periférica, Dias & Santana (2021)](https://editora.pucrs.br/edipucrs/acessolivre/anais/simposio-juventudes-contemporaneas/assets/edicoes/2021/arquivos/6.pdf)
8. [Sintonia: crítica do final da série da Netflix, Omelete (11 February 2025)](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia-5-ultima-temporada)
9. [Produzida por KondZilla, 'Sintonia' promete trazer nova visão sobre o cotidiano do jovem na periferia, Pop Séries](https://popseries.com.br/entrevista-kondzilla-sintonia-1-temporada-netflix/)
10. [Sintonia – 1ª temporada, Omelete](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia)
11. [Sintonia encerra com trama que une periferia, fé e música, Folha de S.Paulo (6 February 2025)](https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/amp/ilustrada/2025/02/sintonia-une-a-fe-a-musica-e-o-crime-na-periferia-em-quinta-e-ultima-temporada.shtml)
12. [Confira Sintonia, Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/br/title/80217315?source=35)
13. [Sintonia: crítica da 2ª temporada, Omelete](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia-2-temporada)
14. [Sintonia: crítica da 3ª temporada, Omelete](https://www.omelete.com.br/series-tv/criticas/sintonia-3a-temporada)
15. [Temporada 5 de Sintonia tem quantos episódios?, TecMundo (5 February 2025)](https://www.tecmundo.com.br/minha-serie/600625-temporada-5-de-sintonia-tem-quantos-episodios-veja-tempo-para-maratonar.htm)
16. [Críticas para Sintonia, AdoroCinema](https://www.adorocinema.com/series/serie-23399/criticas/)
17. [O que é mulher perrequeira e nave no fluxo? Entenda o dialeto de Sintonia, Notícias da TV (14 August 2019)](https://noticiasdatv.uol.com.br/noticia/series/o-que-e-mulher-perrequeira-e-nave-no-fluxo-entenda-o-dialeto-de-sintonia-28763)
18. [É o fluxo: "baile de favela" e funk em São Paulo, Proa: Revista de Antropologia e Arte (2017)](https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/proa/article/view/16801)
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