The First of Us

The story focuses on the life of a group of friends, who are in their 40s and undergo a great change when they find out that one of them, Santiago (Benjamín Vicuña), suffers from a terminal illness, after having experienced the first symptom at a dinner and be cared for in hospital. From there, the news leave everyone shocked, putting them in close proximity to death, which moves them deeply and keeps them restless. ==Cast==

Main • Benjamín Vicuña as Santiago Luna • Paola Krum as Jimena Rauch • Luciano Castro as Nicolás Torres • Jorgelina Aruzzi as Valeria Perell • Damián de Santo as Ignacio "Nacho" Reinoso • Mercedes Funes as Soledad González Recurring • Daniel Fanego as Ernesto "Ernie" Luna • Rafael Ferro as Martín Hermida • Carola Reyna as Karina Pereyra • Adriana Salonia as Mariana Herrera • Nicolás Riera as Cristian García • Sebastián Presta as Gustavo Sanguinetti • Noralíh Gago as Margarita Litardo • Karina Hernández as Raquel Russo • Rocío Gómez Wlosko as Uma Luna • José Giménez Zapiola as Pedro Reinoso • Federico Pezet as Nahuel Reinoso • Valentino Casado as Matías Sanguinetti • Fernanda Metilli as Sofía • Agustín García Moreno as Agustín Guest ==Episodes==

Critical response The debut season of The First of Us received positive responses from critics. According to Emanuel Respighi of Página 12, the telenovela "has a deep story, which escapes the comedy of manners, mature in its genesis, trigger and development, a fiction that invites viewers to enter a dimension of human existence with the strange paradox of celebrating life". In a review for Clarín, Graciela Guiñazú wrote: "is one of those dramas that make us lump in throat" with a solid cast and described the plot as "a story in which it is sensed that love, fears, humor, doubts and hope will sustain the inevitable outcome". ==References==