The First of Us comes to an end: what will happen to the characters?

This week will see the end of The First of Us, the Telefe strip that was installed on open television with an unusual theme, such as that of the terminal illness of one of its protagonists and it worked. In the last chapters, which will close the cycle on Thursday 30th, the outcome of the whole story will be known.

The fiction has already had its closure Supreme + (where it was broadcast in parallel with two chapters in advance), but three episodes are still missing with the TV open, which will be broadcast on Monday 27, Tuesday 28 and Thursday 30 since Wednesday 29 will not be broadcast in order not to compete with football.

The telenovela, recorded last year, stars Benjamín Vicuña, Paola Krum, Jorgelina Aruzzi, Luciano Castro, Damián De Santo and Mercedes Funes. Despite having debuted in the early evening, he then changed his schedule at 11:15 pm, but the evaluation continued to accompany the fiction. In last Thursday’s broadcast, measured 11 points.

a different topic

Presented as a dramatic comedy, the strip written by Ernesto Korovsky, Romina Moretto, Micaela Libson and Juan Ciuffofocuses on the life of a group of friends in their forties whose life was affected by the illness of one of them.

In Santiago (Vicuña) a brain tumor is diagnosed and, from there, the proximity to death deeply mobilizes the bonds between everyone and their attitude towards life in general. Love, children, sexual identity, postponed dreams are some of the topics which contained this story that began last March.

On the one hand, Santiago has already experienced several episodes in which the severity of his illness has been revealed, with loss of sight, memory lapses and paralysis of part of his body. Although he showed improvement and was able to meet the child he had with Jimena (Paola Krum), his situation seems irreversible.

The problem is how this result, announced from the beginning of the story, will be shown to the public, how it will affect and What consequences will it have on the rest of the characters?

happiness and sadness

Jimena experiences the contradiction of feeling happy for the birth of Julián, her first child and the fruit of her love finally realized with Santiago, and, on the other hand, the anguish and sadness due to the imminent loss of her partner.

Valeria (Jorgelina Aruzzi) and Nicolás (Luciano Castro) face the biggest challenge of their life: cbecome a mother and father of three siblings. The couple is about to receive them for permanent adoption and this generates a great mobilization in both, accustomed to another lifestyle.

The arrival of the children will define whether or not they will marry, how they will organize their new life as a large family, and how the bond between them will continue from the novelty.

Soledad (Mercedes Funes), for her part, will have to decide whether to continue her marriage, in crisis, with Gustavo (Sebastián Presta). The question is whether they will be able to change the bond, or whether she decides to empower herself and continue without him in her new phase.

Sexuality resolved and how to continue

Nacho (Damián De Santo), who in the course of the plot decided to be faithful to what he felt and reveal his homosexuality after decades of heterosexual marriageNow you have to face another crossroads. The architect will have to decide whether or not to continue his relationship with Cristian (Nico Riera) and how his relationship with his ex-wife, children and friend Javier continues.

“The end will have the tone that the novel had, where there is pain there is also life, there is love, there is friendship, there is beauty, there is sensuality”, said Paola Krum in a radio interview. “It will be sad, but it will also be vital. Optimism is the hallmark “.

Vicuña also advanced something in another interview, along the same path: “The people who are willing to experience this journey in the last week, I assure you that not only will they cry, but they will learn lessons. There are some super interesting twists and nice surprises.

The hallmark of this story had as its axis focus attention on a subject that is usually taboo for television drama: that of a terminal illness. Talking about the possibility of death in a young man is not frequent, but in this plot the subject has been treated without euphemisms, but avoiding low blows and even with some moments of humor.

From that situation the drama was present but without making it melodramatic, thanks to a book, together with the representations, which knew how to make it credible. On the other hand, the other stories have not lost importance for this and each leaves a reflection.

The main cast was joined, also with good interpretations, by Rafael Ferro, Adriana Salonia, Nicolás Riera, Sebastián Presta, Rocío Gómez Wlosko, Noralíh Gago, Carola Reyna, Daniel Fanego and Karina Hernández, among many others who have completed the plots of each of their characters.

With the positive impact of the first of usThe door is open for a second season. The options are a prequel, to take advantage of the friendship of years that unites the main characters, or a second part that takes up some of the secondary characters and continues with new stories.

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