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Created by Fábio Porchat Country of origin Brazil No. of seasons 1 Network YouTube Production location Rio de Janeiro Program creator Fábio Porchat | 7.8/10 IMDb Written by Fábio Porchat Original language(s) Portuguese First episode date 5 April 2014 Number of seasons 1 Number of episodes 4 Language Portuguese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Gregório Duvivier
Fábio Porchat
Antonio Pedro Tabet
Thati Lopes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Viral is a Brazilian comedy web series by comedy group Porta dos Fundos, in which Gregório Duvivier stars as Beto, a man who after discovering that is carrying the HIV virus, decides to seek the latest eight women with whom he had sexual intercourse to give the news and try to find out who is the possible transmitter.
The series consists of four websodes, the first webisode premiered on April 5, 2014 at the Porta dos Fundos' YouTube channel.
Conception
Porchat came up with the idea for Viral during a trip to Africa, a continent with high number of infected by the HIV. The inspiration came after he watched the film 50/50, in which the young Adam (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) discovers having cancer and learn to deal with the problem with the support of a friend. Another inspiration was the episode "Sex Ed" of the American television comedy series The Office, in which the character Michael Scott (Steve Carell) contacts all his ex-girlfriends after being told that his cold sore it's a form of herpes.