Based on the theoretical field of Visual Culture and Public History, the article analyzes the didactic potential of the superseries Dark days, produced by Rede Globo in 2017. The use of archive images, in line with other narrative elements, such as characters, texts, soundtrack and stagings, allows us to think about the way in which the series appropriated historiographical debates about the civil-military dictatorship, proposing a reading in which individualism dictates political relations. The TV channel’s connections with the dictatorial regime and the polarized political context during the series’ creation period are also addressed in its social circuit, aspects that unfold as possibilities for its use in history teaching practices.
