The First of Us

The First of Us (El primero de nosotros, stylized as: EL PR1MERO DE NOSOTROS, THE F1RST OF US) is an Argentine telenovela produced by Viacom International Studios that premiered on 21 March 2022 on Telefe. It is written by Ernesto Korovsky and Romina Moretto, and directed by Pablo Vásquez and Pablo Ambrosino. It stars Benjamín Vicuña, Paola Krum, Luciano Castro, Jorgelina Aruzzi, Damián de Santo and Mercedes Funes.

Plot
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.

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

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".