The City declared Los Simuladores of “Cultural Interest”

The act, organized by the legislator matias lopez in the Golden Hall of the Buenos Aires Parliament, also had the presence of friends and relatives of the honorees, as well as the participation Claudio Villaruel and Bernarda Llorente, in charge of the artistic direction and programming of Telefé in 2002 and 2003, years in which the two seasons were broadcast.

Distinction of the Buenos Aires Legislature

The series is considered one of the most outstanding “cult” fictions in the history of the country’s audiovisual industry and narrates the adventures of four intelligence, investigation and technology experts who unlock problematic situations through creative simulation operatives.

“With high doses of suspense, wit and humor, Los Simuladores delved into issues such as corruption, unemployment, gender violence, eating disorders, economic inequality and corporate abuse, among others” and highlights the distinction text that was accompanied by legislators and legislators.

The ceremony began with the projection of a video with images of the actors who embodied the characters known in the series as Mario Santos, Pablo Lamponne, Emilio Ravenna and Gabriel Medina with a final photo of the four accompanied by the word “They return” in reference to the film that will bring them together again and they plan to release it in 2024.

In statements to Télam, Villarruel remarked “the very high narrative and direction quality” of the series about which he also highlighted “the talent, creativity, scripts and a channel leveraging behind that achieved that success”.

Llorente, currently in charge of the Presidency of the Télam news agency, maintained that “in the midst of the 2001 crisis, we bet on a product that was different and that could be a success or a failure, but that finally put us on the top of the world with a quality product from the television industry”.

Legislator López, for his part, assessed that “It is not easy to address certain issues in our society and I think that one of the great challenges that we must highlight was the ability to address taboo or sensitive topics with a combination of humor, seriousness and respect, which managed to make many social issues visible 20 years ago. that today do not lose relevance”.

The Simulators, a cult series

The series debuted on March 21, 2002 with humble numbers, with ratings around 17 points. However, in the 11 months that elapsed between the end of the first season and the beginning of the second, in May 2003, the channel reprogrammed it on the “prime time” grid and its figures went through the roof, above 30 points.

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“The classics are made over time, but the program except when it began to be broadcast, which measured normal, already in the repetition the rating began to explode. The second season was explosive and the successive repetitions too. And then came the social networks that helped to this non-oblivion”, D? Elía reviewed with Télam in March of last year when the cycle celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Having been broadcast up to nine times in its entirety on television since it was included in the Netflix catalog and then moved to Paramount+ (a platform owned by the same conglomerate that owns Telefe), the series also remained present thanks to memes, stickers, the viralization of eternal phrases such as “Lamponne, you bend over and they put it on you”, “Isn’t there a little bit for me?” or “Excuse me, do you have a fire?” that Santos said at the end of each episode to whom he had just deceived.