Okupas

I'm from Argentina myself and I can say this series is one of the best ones this country has ever shot. It depicts a 2000/2001 crisis we were living through and how ordinary people had to struggle with life evey single day.

Every character is unique and you have no choice but to end up loving or hating them. Not only the four MC are cool, but also the antagonists and even their pet, a lovely and really intelligent dog, are amazing!

You know, due to Copyright issues, there was no official DVD released ever. However, it's still popular nowadays and views keep going up!!!

You can only watch it on Youtube or download it illegally around, and I think no subtitles exist. (If I happen to see people asking for it, I'll sub every episode on my own)

Okupas is one of those shows which show up every 50 years. So it's a must to watch it!

If you want the subtitiles, just mark my review as helpful and once I see enough clicks on YES, I'll start working into it!

In such a crude and realistic way, it portrays the experience of young people without financial support who live on questionable acts to gain resources. In short, a shocking drama with some overtones of social horror and suspense on a fairly well calibrated level. The best Argentine series.

Set in Argentina in the year 2000, under a deep crisis resulting from the convertibility model initiated by Carlos Ménem and continued under the government of Fernando De la Rúa, the only thing left for the Argentine middle class to ignore the impoverishment, unemployment and social conflict in the country was television as an escape route. Chiquititas in the afternoon, Tinelli and Gasoleros at night, and Mirtha Legrand on Sundays. But every day, marginality grew, the pockets of the popular classes were shrinking, and capital flight was beating like the heart of the rats of those who took the benefits of One to One. Okupas appeared, precisely, to squat that only space of comfort that was available to the ostentatious and aspirational class in a devastated country. Okupas is the reflection of an excluded majority that was deprived of a decent home, a job or any future in a system that not only left them to their fate, but did not guarantee them anything, and took everything away from them. An excellent story that narrates the misadventures of a middle class young man, frustrated with the moment he is living in his life, decides to become corrupt and get to know the depths of social marginality: gangs, guns, drugs, alcohol, violence of all kinds. Friendship unites four young people who have fallen by the wayside of the system, and they will seek not only to survive the marginality, but also to survive themselves as a group.

In the year 2000 this gang of 4 friends, taking drugs, making some robery.

This is about friendship and be an underdog in Buenos Aires Argentina being poor.

This a well made product. And in USA says "..you talk the talk..speak slang..." It's a cult serie. Don't missed.

The series is really short so give it a try, you would be on the last episode without realizing. Great acting, characters development, directing. Everything was on point.

I must say I´m a little conflicted by the ending, it finished a little bit open in my opinion, I mean it´s really probable some people would say "oh that was good, where´s the second season?". It hasn´t got another one so and it doesn´t need it. But at least they should have added 10 minutes more for a definitve closure.