The Pretenders (TV Series)

Los Simuladores (The Pretenders) was a very popular TV series about a team of con artists solving common people's problems in Argentina. The show ran for two seasons, from 2002 to 2003. The series was produced and aired by the Argentine network Telefé, and ran for two 13-episode seasons in 2002 and 2003. The series is occasionally shown on reruns in Telefé. A remake version of the show is currently going on in Chile and another remake is also going on in Spain produced by Cuatro. The premise of the series was a team of four associates who ran a "simulation" business, solving the problems and needs of their clients by staging simulacros (simulations) aimed at confusing whoever is giving their clients a problem (bosses, criminals, husbands, wives, unscrupulous businessmen, etc), thus helping the client come on top of the situation. The price the team charged for its services was exactly two times the cost of the simulation, as well as the client's compromise to participate in future simulations (this led to characters who appeared in previous episodes re-appearing in later episodes as secondary actors and helpers for the team, giving the show a sense of continuity). The underlying philosophy used by the team was that sometimes what's legal is not fair, and sometimes what's fair is not legal. In the second season of the show, a second Simuladores team was introduced. This group, known as the "B-Team" and composed of former clients of the original team (who had appeared on Season 1), had been created to take over "smaller" cases and free the original team for larger and more demanding assignments. This show was heavily inspired (if not directly a rip-off) by american 80s series The A-Team. (information from wikipedia).