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Los Simuladores
Format Dramatic television series
Created by Damián Szifron
Developed by Damián Szifron
Starring Federico D'Elía
Alejandro Fiore
Diego Peretti
Martín Seefeld
Opening theme "Cité Tango" by Gotan Project
Country of origin Argentina
Language(s) Spanish
Production
Camera setup Multicamera setup
Running time 60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel Telefé
Picture format PAL
External links
IMDb profile

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The series was produced and aired by the Argentine network Telefé, and ran for two 13-episode seasons in 2002 and 2003. Televisión Federal SA, best known as Telefe and recently referred to as TLF, is an Argentine Television network. The series is occasionally shown on reruns in Telefé. A remake version of the show is currently going on in Chile and another remake is also going on in Spain produced by Cuatro. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Cuatro ("Four" is a Spanish private television channel on air since November 2005. There are also plans to release a film based on the series. Currently, Sony Pictures Television International is producing a remake for Mexican television network Televisa. Sony Pictures Television International is the Worldwide Television Distribution division of Sony Pictures. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Televisa is a Mexican multimedia company and is the largest media company in the Spanish -speaking world and a major player in the international entertainment [1]

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Plot

The premise of the series was a team of four associates who ran a "simulation" business, solving the problems and needs of their clients by staging simulacros (simulations) aimed at confusing whoever is giving their clients a problem (bosses, criminals, husbands, wives, unscrupulous businessmen, etc), thus helping the client come on top of the situation. The price the team charged for its services was exactly two times the cost of the simulation, as well as the client's compromise to participate in future simulations (this led to characters who appeared in previous episodes re-appearing in later episodes as secondary actors and helpers for the team, giving the show a sense of continuity). The underlying philosophy used by the team was that sometimes what's legal is not fair, and sometimes what's fair is not legal.

In the second season of the show, a second Simuladores team was introduced. This group, known as the "B-Team" and composed of former clients of the original team (who had appeared on Season 1), had been created to take over "smaller" cases and free the original team for larger and more demanding assignments.

This show had connections with american 80s series like Stingray, The A-Team, Vengeance Unlimited & the Equalizer. Stingray is an NBC television series produced by Stephen J Cannell that ran from 1985 to 1987. The A-Team is an American action Adventure Television series about a fictional group of ex- United States Army Special Forces Vengeance Unlimited is a TV series broadcast during 1998-1999 on ABC which lasted for just one season of sixteen episodes The Equalizer is an American action-adventure television series initially broadcast on the CBS Network between 1985 and 1989

Cast and description of characters

Episode guide

Season 1 (2002)

  1. Tarjeta de navidad ("Christmas Card"): The team helps a couple to get back together.
  2. Diagnóstico rectoscópico ("Rectoscopic Diagnosis"): The team helps a man to get rid of a loan shark and his thugs.
  3. Seguro de desempleo ("Unemployment Insurance"): The team helps an old man to get his job back after being unceremoniously fired by his boss for being too old.
  4. El testigo español ("The Spanish Witness"): The team helps a woman to get rid of a Spanish nosy lover who intends to settle in Argentina.
  5. El joven simulador ("The Young Simulator"): The team works to help a young high school student to pass six hard exams in a single week.
  6. El pequeño problema del gran hombre: ("The Big Man's Small Problem"): The team must help the President of Argentina to get his self-esteem (and his sexual performance) back up.
  7. Fuera de cálculo ("Out of Calculations"): The team helps a pair of inexperienced thieves survive a bank robbery.
  8. El Pacto Copérnico ("The Copernicus Pact"): A lawyer hires the team to make his wife want to leave and divorce him, clearing his conscience for cheating her.
  9. El último héroe ("The Last Hero"): The team works to take all the money from a swindler who poses as an artistic agent, convincing him to enter a fake Survivor-like reality show which will keep him in the Chaco jungle for a full year. Survivor is a popular Reality television Game show format produced in many countries throughout the world
  10. Los impresentables ("The Unpresentables"): The team helps a girl's humble family look good for a dinner with her boyfriend's "perfect" family.
  11. El colaborador foráneo ("The Foreign Collaborator"): The team helps a neighborhood get rid of a corrupt police officer who terrorizes the vicinity.
  12. Marcela & Paul ("Marcela and Paul"): The team helps a recently-divorced woman get the love of her life back by arranging a romantic night with whom she believes to be Paul McCartney. Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942 is an English rock Singer, Bass guitarist songwriter Composer,
  13. Un trabajo involuntario ("An Involuntary Job"): The team must work for free to free Santos from a mobster.

Season 2 (2003)

  1. Los cuatro notables ("The Remarkable Four"): To help the family of an ailing man, the team tries to convince an HMO doctor-turned-businessman that he has been nominated to the Nobel Prize for an old idealistic paper he wrote in his youth. "HMO" redirects here For other uses see HMO (disambiguation. The Nobel Prize (Nobelpriset (Nobelprisen is a Swedish prize established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Peace, Literature
  2. Z 9000 ("Z 9000"): The team convinces an abusive husband that he has a murderous clone stalking him.
  3. La gargantilla de las cuatro estaciones ("The Necklace of the Four Seasons"): The team is contacted by a man that can't stop cheating on the woman he loves; however, they pretend to refuse the case and he becomes part of the simulation.
  4. El Clan Motul ("The Motul Clan"): Simulating a vampires story, the team saves a retirement house from being sold.
  5. El vengador infantil ("The Child Avenger"): The team helps a young comic-book lover to gain self-esteem and resist a bully.
  6. El matrimonio mixto ("The Mixed Marriage"): A Jewish boy and a catholic girl hire the team to convince their respective parents that a mixed marriage is not a bad idea.
  7. El Gran Desafío ("The B Brigade"): U. S. agents capture the members of the B-Team after taking them for terrorists -which they were pretending to be for the purposes of a simulation-, leading the original team to try to infiltrate the FBI itself to free them.
  8. Fin de semana de descanso ("Holiday Weekend"): Taking a small vacation, the team unmasks a crime being committed by a couple, the Sherlock Holmes way. Sherlock Holmes is a famous fictional detective of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in Publication in 1887
  9. El debilitador social ("The Social Debilitator"): The team simulates a trial against a model manager that encourages the girls into unhealthy eating habits, charging him for "pre-crimes against Humanity".
  10. El anillo de Salomón ("The Ring of Solomon"): A famous orchestra conductor hires the team to get rid of an obnoxious classical music fan. Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures
  11. Episodio final ("Final Episode"): A two-part episode. The victim from the ninth chapter of the first season comes back from the jungle seeking to kill the team for having tricked him and stolen from him almost one million pesos (at that time, almost USD300. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 000). The team then makes a simulation to make him believe that it was a test, and then train him to kill Osama Bin Laden. Osama bin Laden, with some spelling variations is the name used in English to refer to (أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن born 10 March The team also works to convince an ambitious corporate employee to return home and help his father and sister with the family business. This is the team's final job, as they decide to quit for some time and go their separate ways.

Trivia

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References

  1. ^ SPTI to make series for Televisa Variety. Nacho Barahona (born in 1970 in Madrid) is a Spanish Film editor with over 225 TV series episodes 14 short films, numerous
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