Mais Você

Dedicated to Tom Veiga (1973-2020)

Mais Você (stylized as +♥c) is a Brazilian television program, produced by TV Globo and aired since October 18, 1999, under the command of Ana Maria Braga. Initially focused only on cooking, the program started to address other topics as well, such as beauty and health, service provision and entertainment matters.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Naive and wonderful hosting by Ana Maria Braga herself, since she is one of the best hosts of TV Globo in the history of the network, as well as of Brazilian TV.
 * 2) The program's recipes are well done on how to prepare and cook them, as well as delicious to eat, when Ana Maria eats them and makes a nice hmmm reaction.
 * 3) The breakfasts with the guests are also another masterful thing of the program.
 * 4) Louro José, who was played by the late Tom Veiga, was the best part of the program, mainly because of the funny things that Louro did and for also Louro himself was very funny. Because of the bursting success that Louro José did, he had a lot of merchandise, like a doll made by IFA Brinquedos and a CD called Pet Hits, where Louro's theme song Qualé Que É became a big hit.
 * 5) Good scenarios, such as the iconic Casa de Cristal in Rio de Janeiro.
 * 6) Great and memorable openings, almost all of them having a heart shape on the program's logo.
 * 7) The program's materials are well made.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The program was involved in some controversies, such as:
 * 2) * On April 27, 2021 episode, Ana Maria Braga was very criticized for mocking an African food, which was prepared by ChefSam on the program. The negative reception on social media that was so bad, that she had to apologize for the debauchery.
 * 3) ** A few days later, the program was involved in another controversy, only this time where Ana Maria Braga ended up calling ex-BBB Camilla de Lucas a simpleton, which ended up causing her to be criticized harshly again on social media, due to her not knowing the meaning of the word simpleton, because it's not a compliment, and it's a criticism, which means silly and foolish.
 * 4) *** If that wasn't enough, on September 22, 2021, the program became involved in one more controversy, this time when Ana Maria Braga used a racist speech, white envy, during Fabrício Battaglini's report on the program, when he was visiting a city in the interior of São Paulo. She later apologized for the speech on the following program in September 23.
 * 5) Louro Mané (Louro José's son) is not a good replacement of his father, since not only he doesn't make the jokes that his father used to do, but his voice (made by Fabio Caniatto, who previously worked to TV Cultura) is very squeaky in a bad way and is not the same as Louro José's voice and his appearance is the same as his father's, but Louro Mané's puppet is smaller than the old Louro José puppet. Originally the program's staff wanted to redesign Louro Mané or use other character in his place, but Ana Maria Braga refused. If she hadn't refused, he wouldn't have looked the same as Louro José's old puppet.
 * 6) * To make matters worse, he and Ana Maria are not getting along very well, mainly because of the lack of synchrony that Ana leaves Louro Mané talking to himself on the program. Because of this, she had to be warned by the show's staff to take care that alleged conflicts are not noticied by the public.