Caray, Caray!

I watched Barerra last night so I give a brief summary of what went on and where we are with it.

Jacinta has been successful so far in her scheme. She has gotten Valeria back to the hacienda by pretending that she is not opposed to her marriage to Andres, the bullfighter. Valeria bought this and has just returned to the hacienda accompanied by Veronica and Jacaranda. Now Jacinta will implement phase two of her plan to separate Valeria and Andres. Jacinta and Manola also have some plan to get Maite out of the picture if she comes to Aguascalientes. Valeria and Andres had sex under a tree in a rainstorm.

Juanita and Daniel have finally gotten together.

Andres has an engagement to do a bullfight in Mexico City. For an appearance in the capitol, apparently he can’t borrow a matador costume. He has to have one of his own. Unfortunately, they are very expensive. Andres and Valeria tell Maite about this problem. Later she takes out the famous necklace and is obviously going to pawn or sell it to get Andres his matador outfit complete, doubtless, with the ham sandwich. Maite goes to visit the Maldonados and one of their servants (not the stupid old one) is going to give her a ride home but she says she needs to make a stop. Anyway, I’m guessing this is how Jose Maldonado is finally going to find out that Maite is his daughter.

Poor old Gustavo is still vegetating in the abandoned house. He is getting better though. Manola comes and mocks him – telling him that once he is dead, she is going to marry Unibrow, etc. and Gustavo moves his thumb. Manola freaks out and leaves. Then Omar, his former associate at the dairy, comes in. He has found out where Gustavo is being kept. For Omar, Gustavo shows that he can move his hands and arms a little and he is beginning to be able to talk. Omar tells him that Rodrigo has come into his own running the cow business although he is making some risky business decisions.

Victor is the first 3-dimensional gay character I have seen on a novela. He is attracted to Guillermo and the attraction seemed mutual but apparently Guillermo thinks that if he gets together with Victor, that will break up Victor’s family, i.e., Maite and Veronica. So he is avoiding Victor and Victor is sad. Obviously, there’s some miscommunication here.

Jacaranda takes the opportunity of being in the hacienda to hook up with Nicolas but Sergio surprises them while they are kissing.

The other day on Barerra, I saw Manola pretend to twist her ankle so that Unibrow would have to pick her up and carry her. It was pathetic.

Some time ago, Maite and Unibrow met. I don’t think they have cleared up the misunderstandings between them (Maite being raped by Adolfo and blackmailed into marrying him) yet. So Maite now knows that Andres is Unibrow’s son. I don’t think that Unibrow knows that Valeria is a Valladolid or is Maite’s daughter and he still doesn’t know that Andres is a bullfighter.

If anyone cares, Remedios is getting a lot of fulfillment from teaching children at the convent but she still regrets that Federico turned out to be such a jerk.
Jacaranda can pretty much control when the Vera personality appears and she is being paid by Manola to manipulate Veronica’s multiple personalities.

Labels: barrera