Season 1 • Episode 108
LatestSucupira is a seaside town in Chile. Federico Valdivieso, the mayor, a scoundrel, rascal and womanizer is determined to be re-elected. One of his main goals for that is to inaugurate the Sucupira cemetery, something he cannot achieve because nobody is dying, in his endeavor to make that happen he will star in hilarious situations.
Acting
Héctor Noguera's magnificently sleazy mayor—human grease stain with charisma
Writing
Gallows comedy stretched across impossible premise, episode after episode
Production
Seaside Chilean town becomes character—sunny hellscape of civic failure
Creator
Víctor Carrasco
Francisco Reyes
Esteban Onetto
Ángela Contreras
Bárbara Valdivieso
Álvaro Rudolphy
Rafael Aliaga
Héctor Noguera
Federico Valdivieso
Delfina Guzmán
Mariana Montero
Luis Alarcón
Ambrosio Campos
Coca Guazzini
Luisa Lineros
José Soza
Segundo Fábrega
Claudia Burr
Soledad Campos
Álvaro Morales
Raimundo Prado
Mauricio Pesutic
Renato Montenegro
Viviana Rodríguez
Sofia Montero
Consuelo Holzapfel
Elena Domínguez
Anita Reeves
Carmen Gutiérrez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sucupira adapted a Brazilian telenovela, transplanting its morbid premise to post-dictatorship Chile where black comedy became national coping mechanism.
The 108-episode structure was deliberately excessive—Carrasco wanted viewers to experience Federico's desperation in real-time, waiting for death that never arrives.
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