Wrath Review 2026 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
Antonio Trindade (Fábio Lago), a former MMA fighter who owns a gym that trains fighters on the circuit in Rio, is rummaging through the trash heap, along with other people like his young student Paulina (Valentina Couto), looking for valuables. Paulina finds the man who was shot; he seems dead at first, then suddenly opens his eyes. A few days later, the man, who has amnesia, comes to the gym looking for Toni. Toni is at the bout between his best fighter, Júnior Malamute (MC Cabelinho) and an opponent from the Alpha Rio gym owned by Yana Novaes (Bianca Comparato), the daughter of Toni’s fiercest rival. Malamute wins the bout, and as he’s getting kudos from his girlfriend, Toni’s daughter Gabriela (Alice Carvalho), Yana openly recruits him to come to her gym.
The man that was found at the dump tells Toni that he has no memory of who he is or how he got there. Toni told the hospital his name was Marcello Lazarus, because “Marcello” was the name he kept repeating when he regained consciousness, and “Lazarus” because, well, he rose from the dead. Marcello seems to be helpful, especially when a loan shark named Didi (Cláudia Raia) comes to take equipment as collateral for Toni being late on his payments. He also ends up having a knack for fighting, as Gabriela finds out when Marcello spars with Catolé (Jonas Ponciano), the gym’s second best fighter.
Toni is counting on Malamute’s next bout to help pay the loan, but Malamute defects to Alpha Rio, which Toni only finds out via Gabriela. He’s about to go in the ring himself, when Gabi suggests Marcello takes Malamute’s place.
Wrath tells a relatively straightforward story that has a lot of narrative opportunities. There’s Marcello, who certainly had some bad people after him before he lost his memory, and has fighting instincts that don’t seem to come out of nowhere. It seems like Toni is going to ride Marcello’s natural skills to a matchup with Malamute, but he and Marcello are going to have to get him past the rage issues that stem from a past he can’t remember.
That seems to be the gist, but those rage issues will be interesting to explore, as will the slow reveal of just how Marcello wound up being near death on top of that dump site. There’s also Toni’s story; he was a top MMA fighter a couple of decades ago, and his gym is as much about giving Rio’s youth a purpose and a sense of community to keep them off the streets than it is about winning matches. His rivalry with Yara and her late father stems from more than just his grassroots, barely-making-ends-meet gym versus her slick, corporate training center, and we are looking forward to seeing that explored, as well.
Then there are the fighters, male and female, that have stayed loyal to Toni, including Gabi. She was a fighter at one point; she recognized a scar around Marcello’s eye that indicates that it was from a gloved fist, because she has a similar scar. But she’s not in the game at the start of the series, and it’ll be interesting to see why, as well as what her relationship with Malamute looks like after he defects to Yara’s gym.
The fight scenes are well-done, which helps the narrative. We see just how dedicated these fighters are through these scenes, including Marcello’s first fight under Toni’s tutelage. And it’s a good venue to show how Marcello’s rage gets triggered.
