Los únicos
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Los únicos is a 2011 Argentine superhero live-action television series
aired by El Trece
in the prime time
. The "uniques" are a superhero team working as a covert operation
unit. Main actors are Arnaldo André
, Mariano Martínez
and Griselda Siciliani
, the two main supervillains are played by Favio Posca and Carlos Belloso.
al elements. As such, it avoids the usual constrains of the plots of the aforementioned genres. The plot is influenced by the X-Men film series
, Heroes
and Sky High
.
Nicolás Cabré makes a spin-off
of the Sin Código telenovela, playing again his former character of "Axel Etcheverry". In the new plot, the "Nielsen Security" group has gone bankrupt, and Axel blames his former teammate Gabriel Nielsen for it. Nielsen (which was played by Adrián Suar
, creator of both series) has appeared a number of times, as well as other characters and references to the former telenovela.
Arnaldo André
composed his character, an experimented leader managing a team, based over his own protective relations with relatives, and the ways TV producers try to motivate him to accept a work. He made a deliberate effort to avoid giving an authoritarian style to the character, to avoid comparisons with his former character at Valientes
.
and Anabela Ascar. Gonzalo Heredia, from the previous successful telenovela Malparida
, played himself in a casual scene, with a brief cameo of Juana Viale, also from that telenovela. Osvaldo Laport
will play again his former character of "Amador Heredia" from Soy Gitano
. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
and Martín Bossi will play crime bosses, and Ana María Orozco
will join the team. A fashion show
will include the presence of Pía Slapka, acting as herself, and fashion designer Roberto Giordano.
The series had a successful rating, with nearly 20 points.
units of skilled or superpowered people working at different countries. Alfredo Monterrey organized many of those units, and the series is about the creation and organization of the Argentine branch. His recruits are Diego Rouvier, Axel Etcheverry, María Soledad Marini, Rubén Hagi, Rosario Ahumada, Violeta Morano and Hugo Albarracín. María has superhuman strength
, Axel has an unbreakable skeleton
, Rubén Hagi has indestructible skin, and Violeta Morano is precognitive
. Diego and Rosario have no superhuman powers: Diego is a skilled secret agent, and Rosario a former burglar with a taste for high-stake thefts. The team is opposed by the villains Livio Muzak and Ronco Milevich. Ronco is capable of electric manipulation.
Superhero live-action television series
Superhero live-action television series are television programs which feature the adventures of superhero characters, typically adapted from their original comic book roots, applied in a live action format. This often requires considerable modification in contrast to the animated television series...
aired by El Trece
Canal 13 (Argentina)
El Trece is an Argentine television network and the flagship station of the same network, located in the capital of Argentina, Buenos Aires.- Foundation :...
in the prime time
Prime time
Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast programming during the middle of the evening for television programing.The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period—for example, from 19:00 to 22:00 or 20:00 to 23:00 Prime time or primetime is the block of broadcast...
. The "uniques" are a superhero team working as a covert operation
Covert operation
A covert operation is a military, intelligence or law enforcement operation that is carried clandestinely and, often, outside of official channels. Covert operations aim to fulfill their mission objectives without any parties knowing who sponsored or carried out the operation...
unit. Main actors are Arnaldo André
Arnaldo André
Arnaldo André is a soap-opera Paraguayan actor. He spent most of his career in Argentina, where he has been active since 1964. He earned a Martín Fierro award in 2010, and currently works at Los únicos.-Biography:...
, Mariano Martínez
Mariano Martínez (actor)
Mariano Martínez is an Argentine actor.He was born on December 5, 1978 in La Boca, Buenos Aires...
and Griselda Siciliani
Griselda Siciliani
-Biography:Griselda Siciliani began her career in musical comedy, and took part in the theater play "Revista Nacional". She met the actor and producer Adrián Suar, who took her to play a secretary in Sin Código, a satirical police sitcom where Suar was the main actor. Her character was named...
, the two main supervillains are played by Favio Posca and Carlos Belloso.
Premise
Unlike most productions by Pol-ka, Los únicos is not a telenovela featuring common people or a vengueance plot. Instead of it, it is a crime fiction comedy with metafictionMetafiction
Metafiction, also known as Romantic irony in the context of Romantic works of literature, is a type of fiction that self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction, exposing the fictional illusion...
al elements. As such, it avoids the usual constrains of the plots of the aforementioned genres. The plot is influenced by the X-Men film series
X-Men (film series)
The X-Men film series consists of superhero films based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The films star an ensemble cast, focusing on Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, who is drawn into the conflict between Professor Xavier and Magneto , who have opposing views on humanity's...
, Heroes
Heroes (TV series)
Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
and Sky High
Sky High (2005 film)
Sky High is a 2005 American comedic superhero family film about an airborne school for teenage superheroes. It was directed by Mike Mitchell and written by Paul Hernandez, Robert Schooley, and Mark McCorkle...
.
Nicolás Cabré makes a spin-off
Spin-off (media)
In media, a spin-off is a radio program, television program, video game, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work...
of the Sin Código telenovela, playing again his former character of "Axel Etcheverry". In the new plot, the "Nielsen Security" group has gone bankrupt, and Axel blames his former teammate Gabriel Nielsen for it. Nielsen (which was played by Adrián Suar
Adrián Suar
Adrián Kirzner Schwartz, better known as Adrián Suar is an Argentine Jewish former actor, and a current media producer and businessman, better known as the programme director of Canal 13....
, creator of both series) has appeared a number of times, as well as other characters and references to the former telenovela.
Arnaldo André
Arnaldo André
Arnaldo André is a soap-opera Paraguayan actor. He spent most of his career in Argentina, where he has been active since 1964. He earned a Martín Fierro award in 2010, and currently works at Los únicos.-Biography:...
composed his character, an experimented leader managing a team, based over his own protective relations with relatives, and the ways TV producers try to motivate him to accept a work. He made a deliberate effort to avoid giving an authoritarian style to the character, to avoid comparisons with his former character at Valientes
Valientes
Valientes is a telenovela from Argentina, aired by Canal 13 at the prime time and produced by Pol-Ka. Main actors are Luciano Castro, Julieta Díaz and Arnaldo André, and it's one of the most successful TV programs from Argentina of 2009. With a daily rating of nearly 27,4 points, it is the most...
.
Production
The series have included cameos of notable Argentine actors, such as Esteban Prol, Eugenia Suárez, Carlos BauteCarlos Baute
Carlos Roberto Baute Jiménez , best known as Carlos Baute, is a Venezuelan singer and television host...
and Anabela Ascar. Gonzalo Heredia, from the previous successful telenovela Malparida
Malparida
Malparida is a 2010 Argentine telenovela aired by Channel 13 in the prime time. It run from april of 2010 to february of 2011. The main character, Renata is an antihero, a cold and scheming woman seeking revenge against a man that had caused the death of her mother...
, played himself in a casual scene, with a brief cameo of Juana Viale, also from that telenovela. Osvaldo Laport
Osvaldo Laport
Rubens Osvaldo Jesús Udaquiola Laport is an Argentine actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador born in Uruguay. In 2000, he earned Martín Fierro Award for his portrayal in television comedy Campeones de la Vida....
will play again his former character of "Amador Heredia" from Soy Gitano
Soy gitano
-Cast:*Osvaldo Laport as Amador Heredia - Brother of Lázaro, Josemi and Maite, in love with Mora, then with Isabel*Arnaldo André as Lázaro Jesús Heredia - Eldest brother of Amador, Josemi and Maite, father of Isabel...
. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Echeverría is a Costa Rican economist, lawyer, businessman, and politician. He served as President of Costa Rica from 1998 to 2002 and was briefly Secretary General of the Organization of American States in 2004, before stepping down and returning to his country to face...
and Martín Bossi will play crime bosses, and Ana María Orozco
Ana María Orozco
Ana María Orozco Aristizábal is a Colombian television actress.-Private life:Orozco is the daughter of actor Luis Fernando Orozco. She is also the older sister of actress Verónica Orozco ....
will join the team. A fashion show
Fashion show
A fashion show is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase his or her upcoming line of clothing during Fashion Week. Fashion shows debut every season, particularly the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter seasons. This is where the latest fashion trends are made...
will include the presence of Pía Slapka, acting as herself, and fashion designer Roberto Giordano.
The series had a successful rating, with nearly 20 points.
Plot
The "Uniques" are actually one of several covert operationCovert operation
A covert operation is a military, intelligence or law enforcement operation that is carried clandestinely and, often, outside of official channels. Covert operations aim to fulfill their mission objectives without any parties knowing who sponsored or carried out the operation...
units of skilled or superpowered people working at different countries. Alfredo Monterrey organized many of those units, and the series is about the creation and organization of the Argentine branch. His recruits are Diego Rouvier, Axel Etcheverry, María Soledad Marini, Rubén Hagi, Rosario Ahumada, Violeta Morano and Hugo Albarracín. María has superhuman strength
Superhuman strength
Superhuman strength, also called superstrength, super-strength, or super strength, is an ability commonly employed in fiction. It is the ability for a character to be stronger than humanly possible...
, Axel has an unbreakable skeleton
Human skeleton
The human skeleton consists of both fused and individual bones supported and supplemented by ligaments, tendons, muscles and cartilage. It serves as a scaffold which supports organs, anchors muscles, and protects organs such as the brain, lungs and heart....
, Rubén Hagi has indestructible skin, and Violeta Morano is precognitive
Precognition
In parapsychology, precognition , also called future sight, and second sight, is a type of extrasensory perception that would involve the acquisition or effect of future information that cannot be deduced from presently available and normally acquired sense-based information or laws of physics...
. Diego and Rosario have no superhuman powers: Diego is a skilled secret agent, and Rosario a former burglar with a taste for high-stake thefts. The team is opposed by the villains Livio Muzak and Ronco Milevich. Ronco is capable of electric manipulation.
Cast
- Arnaldo AndréArnaldo AndréArnaldo André is a soap-opera Paraguayan actor. He spent most of his career in Argentina, where he has been active since 1964. He earned a Martín Fierro award in 2010, and currently works at Los únicos.-Biography:...
as Alfredo Monterrey - Fabián Arenillas as Manuel Soria
- Jimena BarónJimena BarónJimena Barón is an Argentine actress. The sister of actor Federico Barón, she debuted in 1998 in television series Gasoleros, for which she won Martín Fierro Award for Best Child Actor. She also won the Argentine Film Critics Association Award for Best New Actress for her role in 1998 film El Faro...
as María Paula Said - Carlos Belloso as Livio Muzak
- Nicolás CabréNicolás CabréNicolás Gabriel Cabré is an Argentine actor and television host. Known for his film, stage and television work, he has won ACE Award and earned four Martín Fierro Award nominations. Cabré is also a regular feature in Argentine press, and his off–screen life is widely reported.- Filmography :-...
as Axel Etcheverry - Emilio DisiEmilio DisiEmilio Disi is an Argentine actor.Active since 1968, in 2002 he appeared in Daniel Burman's film Todas las azafatas van al cielo.He has also appeared in a number of TV series. His last was in 2004 in Los de la esquina.-Filmography:...
as Américo - Claudia Fontán as Soraya Bismarck
- Adolfo Fortuna as Gretel
- Pilar Gamboa as Violeta Morano
- Mariano MartínezMariano Martínez (actor)Mariano Martínez is an Argentine actor.He was born on December 5, 1978 in La Boca, Buenos Aires...
as Diego Rouvier - José María Monje as Hugo Albarracín
- Favio Posca as Ronco Milevich
- Griselda SicilianiGriselda Siciliani-Biography:Griselda Siciliani began her career in musical comedy, and took part in the theater play "Revista Nacional". She met the actor and producer Adrián Suar, who took her to play a secretary in Sin Código, a satirical police sitcom where Suar was the main actor. Her character was named...
as María Soledad Marini - Eugenia Tobal as Rosario Ahumada
- Nicolás VázquezNicolás VázquezNicolás Vázquez is a Martín Fierro Award—nominated Argentine actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in the television series Verano del '98, Alma Pirata and Casi Ángeles.- Personal life :...
as Ruben Hagi - Julieta Zylberberg as Helena Epstein