Caray, Caray!

One of our readers suggested we take a look at Acorralada (trapped) so I thought I'd give a head start to whomever might like to take a whack at it. By the way, I haven't seen this show even once, so I'm doing this second-hand; if you've been watching and have something to add - or correct - let me know! We have two folks going to try this one out, they'll be introducing themselves shortly.

UPDATE: A kind reader has added some comments, which I've inserted in green...

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[UPDATE: Another kind reader suggested that this picture, which I thought was Camila, was actually Octavia. Once again all the babes, whichever generation, are trying to look exactly the same age...] Twenty years ago the evil Octavia Irazabal took two young daughters and a perfume factory away from Fedora. She then framed Fedora for a crime; Fedora has finally gotten out of jail and wants to find her children and get vengeance. Meanwhile, by sheer coincidence, both her daughters are hanging around Octavia's mansion.

OCTAVIA IRAZABAL is the evil matriarch of the show; hence, I surmise that this picture is a bit out of date. Octavia married Alberto, son of Doña Santa. Doña Santa never wanted her son Alberto to marry the evil Octavia. Alberto's dead now. Poisoned? Trampled by a bull?

Yolanda Alarcon is Octavia's sister and lives with her.

I think this is Doña Santa, but since I haven't seen the show I'm not sure. She is now sort of senile and plays with dolls.

Anyway, dead Alberto and evil Octavia had three children:

1. Maximiliano is going to be our major hero I guess. I hope he's not as stupid as Emillioooo but this picture is not promising.
Maxi Maxi as Camila calls him does not seem to be much of a prize. He's strung Camila along for a couple of year leading her to believe that Marfil was actually dead. Meantime, he's fallen for the virgin nurse only days after meeting her. Hmmm. Just why would anyone want to marry him?

Marfil was Max's wife. She didn't want to have kids cause they might have ruined her figure. She was supposedly killed two years previously, accidentally, by Gerardo (a spurned suitor), but is actually in a coma locked in the back room. She has an evil twin, a thief, named Deborah, who is about to show up and try to take her place - the plan is, she'll "wake up" and then be able to wreak havoc.
Marfil (the real still-in-a-coma Marfil) has been carted off to live elsewhere while her evil twin Debora plays the risen-from-the-dead Marfil and usurps her place. Doubtless, at some point Marfil herself with appear.

Camila is Max's current girlfriend. [I picked this picture for you, Ferro - note the enormous fake knockers.] She is desperate to marry him and get out of financial difficulties; he is less eager, knowing as he does that he has a still-living wife in the back room. Camila, too, has a secret: 5 years previously, she had a baby by the evil Dr. Ignacio Montiel; she abandoned the kid in a hospital in Los Angeles. Emilio is her brother, and is Max's best friend. Camila lives with her cousin Sylvia, who is determined to land in the lap of luxury when Camila marries Max.

Max, however, has been pierced by Cupid's Dart - he loves Diana (see below).

2. Larry is Octavia's second spawn. He is a body builder or male beauty queen or something, he wins competitions at the beach, this is his life's ambition. He has a girlfriend, Pilar, whom he wants to marry. She, though, is lukewarm cause she prefers fooling around with Kike, one of the other muscle guys. Gabriela (see below) loves Larry and drops stuff when he's around.

3. Paola is too footloose for Octavia - she should be getting married. However, she would rather do drugs with her buddy Rene.

[Others in the mansion include Nancy and Lala, workers. Nancy unrequitedly loves Lala's son Diego, a piano teacher (therefore probably good); his brother is Pancho, who does illegal things (therefore probably bad) and hangs out with Carmelo (see below). Diego unrequitedly loves Diana.

Bruna would be your Modesta type servant henchperson, I suppose. She works her quiet evil and tends Max's comatose wife in the back room. Since she is planning to get rich in cahoots with Deborah, she looks with extreme disfavor on Diana because she has attracted Max.
The evil Bruna has dropped enough hints that she is undoubtedly the mother of the twins Marfil and Deborah - unbeknownst to them, of course. She been posing for years as servant.

FEDORA GARCES (LA GAVIOTA) was in jail for 20 years, having been framed for some crime by Octavia. Octavia got "two men" to spirit Fedora's daughters away - and also stole her perfume factory! Fedora got a law degree while in jail, however now that she's out of jail she's singing in a bar rather than (there's some joke here about the bar and the bar but I'm too tired to make it). Anyway, now that she's free she wants (a) vengeance and (b) to get her daughters back. Her daughters are:

1. Diana, who graduated at the top of her nursing class but lost her job at a hospital when the evil doctor Ignacio Montiel (the same one who impregnated Camila, see above) put the moves on her and she accidentally rolled him down the stairs and set his house on fire. Or something. He frames her for theft, she goes to jail and meets her own mother and they become friendly. Then she loses her job at the hospital and ends up as the nurse for the senile granny, to Octavia's grave displeasure.

2. Gaby is, coincidentally, a maid at Octavia's mansion. She is in love with Octavia's son Larry, the body-builder. She is very near-sighted.

Both think they are orphans. They were raised by Doña Miguelina Soriano, who prays they never discover she's not really their granny.

Caramelo is the daughter of Paco. (Paco runs the bar where Fedora/Gaviota sings and manages her career and is in fact in love with her but she is through with love.) Carmelo hangs out with Pancho (see above) and gets in a lot of trouble.

Andres is an all-purpose villain. He was "once married to a woman who abandoned him." He is henchman to the evil Dr. Montiel. Also, he comes into Paco's bar and threatens Carmela; to defend the girl, Fedora hits him with a bottle and gets arrested.
Debora is actually the woman who abandoned Andres. She's already had one close encounter with him...we should be able to look forward to more.

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