Friday, May 19, 2006

Barrera, May 18

Maite, high priestess of tears and sobs, is having a one-on-one with the Blessed Virgin. Ave Maria is playing in the background in order to intensify the mood. Maite in words and flashbacks, recaps the sad history of how she lost her daughter and Unibrow, the love of her life. She feels that by losing her daughter she has suffered as much as if she were on the cross, losing Valeria was like losing her soul, it was like having her heart ripped out of her chest. Then she begs pardon because she has had many wonderful people in her life, Veronica (three for the price of one) and Victor for example. She thanks God for the few years she had with Valeria..."then all of a sudden she turns up in my room. Help me, help me, Madre, give me strength to carry this burden in silence."

There is a couple at the Feria, brother and sister of Jose (wronged by Eloise) I believe, buying a hideous, green 60's vase. It is the kind of thing that kids make by pasting scraps of paper onto something. The wife gets on the guy's case for flirting with the salesgirl who could be his granddaughter. A couple of townswomen who look like transvestites come up to gossip with them.

Veronica finds Vera's clothes in her suitcase and wonders whose they are. "I wouldn't buy anything like this," she thinks. She pulls out a note from Andrés, "el guaposta", that she is supposed to give to Valeria. Then she hears a crazy tornado-in-the-head noise and sees Me, Myself and I in the mirror. Violetta says "don't come between Valeria and Andrés", slutty blonde Vera sounds very Macbethian as she commands "Largate, largate." I don't know if she is telling Vera to clear out or telling Veronica to "release herself" to her bad side. At any rate, Vera wins over Violetta.

Maite, not wanting the world to know she has been crying, applies more, more, and more eyeliner on her already heavily-painted eyes.

Andrés is being teased by El Gordo and his brother Daniel. El Gordo is slightly obsessed with Andrés' love life and accuses him of being hit by cupid's arrow. Andrés, unlike every other man in the world, is staring at his phone waiting for Valeria to call.

At the hacienda Valeria and Juanita wonder why Veronica is wearing make-up and a different hair style all of a sudden. Vera/Veronica gives Valeria the telephone number of Andrés. Of course we know she has deliberately written down the wrong number and when Valeria calls there is no such person as Andrés there. Vera-nica tells Valeria no biggie, that's how all guys are. Valeria grabs the flowers that he gave her in the market and runs off with Juanita in pursuit. Vera-nica thought bubbles, "Poor Valeria, after he meets me she won't stand a chance!"

Nutria and Unibrow are in Aguascalientes on a walking tour. For the past 17 years he has been having flashbacks of Maite and Nutria has been asking him "are you OK?" Guess what, Unibrow has a flashback, Nutria asks him if he's OK, he claims he's fine, then to prove his guilt he immediately buys her flowers. Idiot.

Victor asks Maite if she is feeling better. She says yes, after praying she feels oddly tranquil. She doesn't know why but she knows that little by little she will find a place in her daughter's heart.

Juanita tells Valeria that there has to be a good explanation for Andrés giving her the wrong number. They decide to go back to the Feria to look for him. They are all giggly and excited until Jacinta shows up and demands to know where they are going.

Commercial Break: Super Especial starring Lucero from Alborada! See Lucero try to sing as a child, as an adolescent, during her Olivia Newton John phase, and even as an adult. Don't miss it!

Back at the hacienda we are seeing first hand what a sheltered life Valeria has led...she actually tells Jacinta that she and Juanita are going to the Feria to look for a boy! Sheesh. It's that boy they met, the one who gave her flowers in San Marcos. "Don't be stupid! Don't forget that lovely boy Rodrigo is coming to eat with us. Come along!!" Jacinta spits. Of course they dutifully follow her.

Unibrow is explaining the details of a bullfighting bronze statue to Nutria. He has a flashback to when he worked at the hacienda and he was doing some sort of favor for Jacinta and Adolfo.

Jacinta, in order to divert Valeria's attention from that damn "chavo" Andrés, has arranged an outing to "una tienta", "trial of the bulls", or bullfight. And guess what??? Charming Rodrigo will be there! She explains the lovelier aspects of bullfighting, and simply everybody will be there.

Daniel teases Andrés about moping around waiting for the phone to ring. It rings! It's not Valeria but Mario...there is a spot for Andrés to try out his skills in an upcoming bullfight.

Federico and Rodrigo are at the hacienda snickering like a couple of schoolboys as to how Rodrigo can suck up to Jacinto by conveying the image of the perfect gentleman at tomorrow's bull festivities. Poor Federico is so smitten by Rodrigo (whom he recently discovered is his son) that he cannot even see the obvious...news flash to Federico, your son is a slimeball!

That uber-creep Rafael (the guy who strangled Magdalena) shows up at Victor and Maite's restaurant. It's all hand-shakes and back slaps. The reunion continues when Elvira and Jacaranda and some blonde shows up. Jacaranda asks about Veronica and when Maite says she's in Aguascalientes on vacation Rafael gets all twitchy and bug-eyed.

Vera-nica hears that darn tornado in her head and once again Violetta and Vera argue about Veronica. Later, Veronica wakes up from a deep sleep not remembering going to bed. She looks at herself in the mirror and cries, "No, no, not red lips again" as she smears her lipstick off.

Victor the hunk is in the gym pumping iron, (and yes I did hit rewind one or five times), when some guy comes in who recognizes him. Apparently they went to secondary school together. His name is Pancho Rivera. Victor later introduces him to Maite. Later still Maite and Elvira are talking about Maite's concern about both Veronica and Valeria together at the hacienda.

The Unibrow family and el Gordo are dining together. Daniel keeps calling Andrés "flaco" (skinny) and asks him why he's not eating. El Gordo puts on a goofy french accent and says "love always gets in the way of an appetite." Andrés wanders off and hopes to impress Don Franco.

The final scene is in the bullfighting ring. Naturally Jacinta and her clan have box seats. I think she is sitting next to Don Franco. First the horses come out and do their stunts. Rodrigo is bored and slouching a lot. All of a sudden down in the ring someone makes the sign of the cross in the dust with the toe of his boot. Camera pan up, up, up...oh dear. It seems the director has decided that this actor's family jewels will not do for the closeup. Quick, somebody grab a braunschweiger!! What?? No braunschweiger? Then get him a big pair of gym socks, or maybe a hamburger, or maybe one of each! Now stuff all of it down into his pants making sure the bulge looks EXACTLY LIKE socks or a hamburger, but definitely not like male anatomy. There, that's much better, now on with the show...

Valeria recognizes Andrés and is smitten. Everybody sees it. Rodrigo becomes a bit jealous. I wonder what he's go up his sleeve? Valeria grabs a flower from her table, calls to him, and throws the flower down to him. He places it inside his jacket close to his heart.

In the preview of coming attractions Maite calls Remedios and Jacinta listens in on the coversation.

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Comments:
Great recap Sylvia! Your commercial break was just like what is on TV. Funny.

I also thought it was sick to hear Vera/Veronica call Juanita Pocahontas when she was giving Valeria the wrong tele number.

A quick clarification is that the couple at the fair were Manola's parents, Nicolas and his wife Catayena. Im beginning to think from the conversation that maybe Maites mother Eloise is the sister of Nicolas. The women at the fair say jokes about Eloise to Nicolas and he gets a little upset. I could be wrong again... These shows take so many twists and turns. Thanks again for the recap, and so quickly too!
 

One of the best yet! I chortled throughout. I'm so glad I don't have to actually watch the show. This is so much better.
 

ps, Lynn ... I thought that actually Nicolas was in love with Eloise, and his wife has never let him forget it.
 

Oh and the sock comments are great! I havent seen that part yet but when I have the time Im going to fast forward to that part just to see what you were joking about.
 

Oh I just read Melinams notes. That makes more sense that Eloise spurned Nicolas' attention. If she was his sister then that would of made things really messy. Thanks!
 

Oh Sylvia, I am so glad now that you missed Tuesday and recapped Thursday! I was hoping you would say something about the male-ness cover-up! When I saw that last night I thought...What the *beep* is that? First I thought I was seeing things, but there it was again!! The Hamburger, as you so cleverly put it.

What a great recap, I laughed the whole way!

Thanks Again,
-Marie
 

Lynn, Melinama and others, thank you so much for the clarifications!! Not only was our video feed bad, (lots of erratic popping which giving me a headache), but the closed captioning was running all over itself. Such pandemonium.

I couldn't actually believe that Vera called Juanita Pocahontas. Jacinta also made some nasty comment later on about her in front of the girls and they all just kind of ignored her.

I, too, was thinking that the couple was Manola's parents but I wasn't sure how they all fit together. Now I'm beginning to see why.

My aural comprehension is still on a learning curve (to say the least), and when the CC goes out it becomes very challenging for me, so I really appreciate it when you all help out with the missed details!

One more thing, is it me or is El Gordo looking alot better these days? Is it still the same actor? He looks younger, maybe because they let him shave off his pencil-thin moustache which did nothing for him.
 

Super recap, Sylvia. I was watching (not that carefully)but I missed the sock in the pants incident. I will have to check out the TiVo.
I also couldn't remember the relationship between Nicolas and Eloisa. Thanks for clarifying that. My acquaintences always tease me about things that happened 35 years ago!
Speaking of dis-ing Juanita, did you notice that she was sent to eat with her parents and not with Jacinta and the rest of the family. It's nice that they are treating the subject of prejudice against "indigenas" but it would have been better to have some actors who actually looked like they had indian blood.
 

You pegged it right! It was a hamburger in his pants! Or was it a sausage & egg McMuffin? What is going on in this show?!?!? I had to rewind several times and then was pleased to see it again on Friday! Why Why would they let that handsome young man look like that?
 

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