Caray, Caray!

I’m back in the saddle after a couple weeks off, I feel refreshed and today I have the energy to deal with what my wife refers to as ‘Duelo de Pendejos.’ My wife has already turned around and gone with my son to Mexico to visit her family for a month, so until I join them in a few weeks I’m on my own, I don’t have the Mrs. Ferro dictionary to consult. Confidence is high, I’ve been learning a lot. Lets get to it.

As Dra. Loca reads up on celotopia, I can’t help but notice she has cleavage up to her chin. I wonder if the amount of cleavage shown represents how much of a professional you are. Don Loco shows up and she is afraid, she thinks he’s going to attack her again. Turns out he wants to be forgiven for what he did, he claims not to remember any of it. He claims to know how the police think and work, so they won’t look for him here. Yes DL, you are SO smart. He asks Dra. Loca if it’s true, is he really crazy? Dra. Loca doesn’t answer him.

The outside shot of Coral’s house makes it look like kind of a dump. I thought this was supposed to be a grand mansion, but it looks like crap. It is in desperate need of some paint. The inside is nice though. Soledad, Alina, Coral, Adela, and Elias hear Vargas describe how DL escaped. DL is sure to come straight there. Elias says whatever, he will protect Soledad. Nobody believes him. He is completely unbelievable as a love interest for Soledad, he just hangs around and tries to win her over by just never leaving. The fact that the writers have Soledad considering him is a joke. There is zero chemistry between the two of them, in fact, I’d say there is even negative chemistry, if that’s possible.

Hottie Claudia tells Angel about her stepfather coming home with the dresses. Angel says the crime wasn’t about the clothes, it was to intimidate him. He tells her that he and Emiliooo are on Rosendo’s trail because he kidnapped Rodrigo’s daughter. Claudia just sits there and looks cute, I don’t think she quite understands it all.

Thelma is again visiting Emiliooo’s lawyer, AKA Dra. Loca’s estranged fiancée. She tells him that he should tell Emiliooo to get another lawyer, he says he needs to talk to Rodrigo first to see if she is telling the truth. Something about when Emiliooo gets a divorce he’ll go after Alina, who otherwise would be getting together with the lawyer’s friend Rodrigo. I would think she would be better off bribing this guy to botch the divorce and stay on as Emiliooo’s lawyer, if he gets some other lawyer, he’ll get the divorce anyway. If this lawyer can drag it on and make trouble, Rodrigo might have enough time to win over Alina. WE know now that it will never happen, but Thelma doesn’t know that. She’s making a mistake. And I can’t believe that I can even think in this type of logic. I must have gone past some novela- related tipping point where that part of my brain has opened up. God help me.

Back in SE Ifgenio is getting the people riled up again to try and look for Luba and Gaspar. They are at some vendor’s shack, someone who sells lots of crap, like the street vendors when you go to Mexico just over the border. Some dude walks up to buy something, it happens to be the guy who was the original accountant on La Fea (What was his name? Olarte? I’m remembering Olarte but that might be wrong) and was ALSO the general who was after Jose Gomez earlier in this very same show. With all the changing actors and now this guy playing two parts, I believe that this show got put on the super-low-budget treatment the farther it went along. Perhaps they paid too much money for Pablo Montero to be the star and then when it sucked and nobody watched they had to cut corners. Just a theory. Anyway, Iffy tells this dude that they are looking for a witch and her son to give them their punishment, does the guy know anything? He just looks impactado and doesn’t answer.

Gaspar, Luba, and Raquel rest after their first day of work and decide that it wasn’t bad for their first day. Raquel hopes some of the workers will come back. One guy walks up and Gaspar asks if he’s here to help, but the guy says he has arthritis and can’t work. Luba says she can cure it. He claims that a doctor is helping him. She questions his manhood but he doesn’t let her help him. He wants to talk business with Raquel. Luba warns her about this guy, I didn’t quite understand what about specifically, but she thinks he’s up to something. She tells Gaspar that the guy is creepy.

Claudia begs Angel to not do anything. Angel says he has to do something. She says there isn’t any proof and also she’s worried about angering her mother. Angel says he’ll find a way to do it that won’t involve Claudia.

Luba tells Gaspar that the guy made up his arthritis for some reason, he tells Raquel stories so he doesn’t have to work. I think the guy’s name is Hernan, Luba REALLY doesn’t like him.

Finally back to DL and crazy doctora. He wants an answer. I just figured out why this woman looks familiar, and why as good looking as she is I don’t find her that attractive, she looks just like Juliette Lewis, who always kind of creeped me out. She says he’s not crazy, he has an emotional disorder, he needs help. He says he won’t go back to any hospital or be locked up anywhere. The doorbell rings, he grabs her and pulls out his gun.

As I thought earlier, the ladies disregard Elias as a protector for Soledad. He whines and begs, but Vargas says Soledad should leave Puebla until they find Don Loco. Elias thinks he’s smart, so he says she should go to San Mateo, since DL wouldn’t ever imagine her to be there. Yeah I’m sure that’s a great idea. Soledad doesn’t think so either.

Angel finds Rosendo at a pool hall. He says, in front of Rosendo’s crew, that he knows it was them who robbed the boutique.

DL, with his gun out and holding Dra. Loca, moves towards the door as the doorbell continues to ring. He puts his hand over her mouth. Outside Mauricio announces himself, then says he’ll leave and come back another time. She begs DL again to get help, he says no, then they make out. Gross. DL says something about women stabbing him in the back, Dra. Loca says to him that he shouldn’t talk about Soledad that way, she never betrayed him. He looks mildly impactado. What? I thought he knew this now. He turns and leaves. Juliette Lewis cries some more.

Rosendo tells Angel that he doesn’t have any proof. Angel says Rosendo needs to leave Claudia alone, if he wants to send Angel a message do it directly. He warns him though that many people know he came here to see Rosendo, so if he doesn’t return soon they will find Rosendo and make him pay. I’m thinking that in reality Angel didn’t tell anybody at all he was coming, we’ll see if Rosendo calls his bluff. Rosendo is instead impressed with Angel’s ‘pantalones’, which I assume means he’s got balls, and lets Angel leave in peace.

Finally back to Emiliooo and Karla. I think Emiliooo is only able to resist her, because she’s hot, because she’s a bit wacky in being so forward. Before he had hot/dumb and hot/psycho as choices, now he has hot/aggressive. Honestly of all those I think the aggressive one is the way to go. It won’t happen, but at least she’s clear that she wants him and she isn’t wacko on the level of Thelma. They talk about containing the epidemic, Emiliooo says he doesn’t want to catch it himself. Karla says no, they need him now more than ever. She holds his hand as she says this, but it really didn’t seem like a come-on. He reacts very negatively though, as if it were. I guess they have to end every scene with some kind of over-acted facial expression from someone, so there you have it.

Alina has finally changed from her nurse’s uniform, she’s doing some reading and closes the book. I imagine she’s about to moon over Emiliooo. I learned this from the early days of La Fea. Any time there was Lety heaving a big sigh and closing whatever she was looking at, that damned music would start and she’d start daydreaming. Gah when I was watching the finale with my wife, after not wathing that show for six months, even then the first time that music started it made me itch. Bleah. I was wrong, Alina instead sits and thinks about her mom, who then enters the room saying that she’s leaving. Alina is worried for her, she starts her crying, then they both start. Soledad says at least DL doesn’t know that Alina is alive, she should be safe.

Hernan is trying to convince Raquel to sell her ranch for 10 Million pesos, which Raquel says is ridiculous. I agree, that’s somewhere in the neighborhood of a million dollars. For a huge ranch that’s low, I would think. She wants to know who the buyer is, Hernan says he wants to remain anonymous. She wants to know more, and anyway it’s not for sale. Hernan says quit asking questions, that’s what he is for, to protect her interests. Yeah right. She tells him that with Luba and Gaspar she has hope to work the ranch, she mentions them about five times, which of course means that Hernan will directly go off to his henchmen and tell them to run off those two, or kill them. One more thing – Hernan is wearing the ugliest shirt I have ever seen. It is yellow with an orange and blue plaid pattern on it. Hideous. I can’t even describe it to you properly. After Raquel leaves, Olarte/General comes up and Hernan calls him Fidencio. I guess you guys have seen him already, I haven’t been watching so I didn’t know his face. He tells Hernan that the people of SE are trying to find Luba and Gaspar. He says why don’t they tell the lynch mob where to find them? That will solve their problem.

Coral tells Soledad that its time to go, Elias is taking her to San Mateo. Soledad and Alina have a tearful goodbye.

Hernan asks Fidencio if he’s sure Gaspar and Luba are the same people he heard about. Uh duh, you think? How many witches with long-haired super muscular sons who act like five years olds do you think there are in this small area? Jeez. He should really not have any doubt after Luba said she was a curandera earlier in the show. What an idiot. Fidencio seems to wimp out about ratting on Luba and Gaspar, but Hernan convinces him. I get the impression that Fidencio wants to go back to work, I didn’t quite understand his entire little speech.

Gaby begs Rodrigo not to go anywhere. She has done nothing but cry since she was kidnapped. All she has to do is tell on Thelma and it will all be over. Another tearful goodbye.

Dra. Loca and her amazing cleavage are waiting for Vargas, who returns from Coral’s house. She tells him that DL was at her house. She tells him that DL is really after Elias and Hugo, the ones who have gone against him. Remember of course, Elias is currently taking Soledad to Puebla, where Dra. Loca lives. Perhaps the confrontation will even happen in tonight’s show.

Booooo – the crime continues, Alfonsina is still all covered up in her horrific disguise. I don’t think that helps her escape notice, it’s like a clown outfit. If she’s going to stand out in a crowd, it should be for the right reason, that being having her awesome body on display, like the good old days. Not for looking like Bozo. She is still tied up in the basement, or wherever Hugo left her, some kid comes in and discovers her and she begs for help. The kid says no way, Hugo will kill him. She promises not to tell that it was him and offers him money. The kid immediately takes the bait and cuts her loose. While the kid gets the ropes off, Alfonsina finds the knife he used on the floor and sticks it up the sleeve of her shirt. Just then Don Loco enters, how did he know where to look? Alfonsina insists that she was always loyal. He confronts her about the note and the true story behind it. He blames her for his insanity – “What did you do to me?”

Vargas tells Dra. Loca that Elias and Soledad are far away, hiding until DL is recaptured. Just in case we didn’t realize before that they were all bound to bump into each other in Puebla, they knock us over the head with it. Dra. Loca actually makes a good point, that DL won’t be after Emiliooo because they were always on opposite sides, DL is just looking for people who screwed him over, so it’s Hugo right now that is in the most danger. Well actually it’s Alfonsina, but they don’t know all that part of the story.

Alfonsina comes back with the fact that DL was a traitor to her too – they were in love and he tossed her aside for Soledad. Alfonsina looks young, so I’m guessing he was ALREADY with Soledad when his fling with Alfonsina started, so she really doesn’t have a leg to stand on here. She gives a tearful speech about being poor and the rich treating them poorly, meanwhile she is working free the knife she stuck up her sleeve. DL says what did you think, that we’d get married? Oh – his sleazy lawyer is there too, I didn’t see him before. He’s just standing there watching all this. DL says Alfonsina would never be the woman Soledad is. He turns around, for some reason, to take out his gun and check the bullets. Alfonsina rushes in with the knife raised. The lawyer pushes DL out of the way and ends up taking the knife in his own back, this time literally. He slowly collapses and dies in DL’s arms. Alfonsina just cries and cries.

The phone rings at Rodrigo’s house, it is Thelma on the other end, she says nothing and hangs up. Gaby wants to know who it was, nobody, go to sleep. Thelma, at her house, grumbles and gripes. Hey – don’t they have caller ID in Mexico? I know they do, my in-laws have it. Why would Thelma be dumb enough to call from her own house? Cripes.

Alina sits straight up from her deep sleep screaming “No Papa! Don’t hurt my Mom!” Coral rushes in to check on her, she was having a dream where DL killed Soledad. They agree that DL is obsessed with Soledad. Nice work Holmes and Watson.

Elias tells a cop or guard or whatever to watch the door to their place very carefully. I’m not sure where they are, perhaps a hotel. Knowing Elias, in the middle of all this tension, he’s going to start pressuring Soledad again about hooking up. They talk about DL and decide that they don’t have any idea where he’ll show up. Elias says he’ll be in the next room and she thanks him for his help. He lays it on too thick, “I’ll always be here at your side.” She says yeah yeah thank you good night. She locks all ten locks on the door but still looks nervous.

Is it my imagination, or do they have like one commercial in the first half of the show and then four or five commercial breaks in the second half? Commercial for Yo Amo a Juan – that hair is ridiculous. How can you watch that show and believe this guy gets women when he has that hair. Maybe if he just looked normal people wouldn’t be avoiding that show and making it switch time slots. I’m just saying, though maybe you women out there feel differently. I can’t get past the hair.

DL closes the lawyer’s eyes, he’s dead for sure now. DL has the nerve to tell her about all the bad things she’s done, like he’s so innocent. He hits her. She screams for help but of course nobody hears. He takes her away at gunpoint to lead him to Hugo.

Karla and Emiliooo continue to work with the sick people, he has at least put on a face mask and gloves, she still hasn’t covered up her face. Not that I mind, but it doesn’t make sense. He rubs his forehead and she asks if he feels sick, he says he’s just tired. He should have said “Because YOU came in and took my bed bitch, I slept in a CHAIR.” She tells him to go rest, but of course no, there is too much to be done, I am SuperEmiliooo, I won’t rest until everyone is safe, I will however stand around and smoke cigars while the rest of you work. She tells him to go rest, it’s under control, ha ha then she says that it’s her fault he’s tired. Ok she’s a bit creepy with her pursuit of Emiliooo but at least she doesn’t dance around the obvious. Her only fault so far is being interested in Emiliooo, who is a complete loser. Otherwise I like her.

Alina thanks Coral for calming her down. In a different kind of show, this is where the clothes would come off. Did I say that out loud? Sorry. Coral tells her to think of the positive things. Alina says she will do it. Yeah right, she has no concept of thinking positively. Just moping and crying. Which she immediately does when Coral leaves, “Ay Emiliooo….”

Hugo is laying into the kid for letting Alfonsina go. DL and Alfonsina bust into the room. DL says Hugo is going to watch him kill Alfonsina, then he’s going to kill Hugo. Less talking, more killing. Unless Alfonsina is going to start dressing slutty again, we don’t need her any more. Or one of you get the gun and shoot DL. Something. We are near the end, something drastic like that can happen now.

Frank (I think) is standing guard in the middle of the night talking on his radio. He sees someone, it’s obviously Karla since all you can see is a white shirt with obvious boobs, walking over to Emiliooo’s tent. He marvels at Emiliooo’s skill with women. Whatever. Inside the tent, Emiliooo is sleeping. Karla looks at him and thought bubbles “Oh Emiliooo I love you so much, I never met a man like you, so valiant, so..” ok I can’t continue, or I’m going to throw up. What a bunch of crap. Did she not see him on that first day, standing around smoking, when all the people who had already worked themselves to death kept working? So valiant indeed. When I was younger and had fewer good qualities than I do now, why weren’t hotties like this deciding I was so interesting and deep and whatever? I spent a lot of time with a blank look on my face too, just like this guy. What a load of crap. Anyway she goes to kiss him and he says Alina’s name. Didn’t this happen already? Oh yeah, Karla says again with that name, who is it? She wants to get that name out of his head.

Hugo tries to talk his way out of getting shot. DL says he has nothing to lose. Alfonsina begs on her knees, he tells her to shut up. Hugo manages to knock the gun out of DL’s hand, they get into a rousing fistfight. DL finally knocks Hugo to the floor. He stops to put his hat back on before picking up his gun. Alfonsina is worthless, she could have taken that opening to kick him or something. Or to have grabbed the gun while the men were fighting. Instead she just hid behind a wall and whimpered. The kid then, of all people, comes up behind DL and bashes a bottle on his head, knocking him out. The kid then tells Alfonsina to give him the money she promised so he can run away. “What money?” says Hugo. Alfonsina is trying to burn holes in the kid’s head with her eyes for spilling the beans. Oops!

Rodrigo and some more men have arrived at the camp, as predicted he decides to go see Emiliooo right away. Emiliooo, who currently has some hottie in his tent that is not named Alina. Somebody called this like two weeks ago, right? Who was it? You should get a special prize. Well, sort of – the soldier who greeted Rodrigo stops him from going to see Emiliooo and finally has to tell him that he’s in there with a woman. Rodrigo seethes. Shouldn’t he be happy? Now Alina can pretend to not like Emiliooo for a couple more days, give Rodrigo a little more sugar, before running back to Emiliooo later in the week. He gets something out of it.

Alfonsina wants to kill DL, Hugo says no, he should rot in jail or a loony bin or whatever for the rest of his life. She says fine, then, let’s get out of here. Hugo says first, the money. The kid says he wants his lana too. Alfonsina says the money was to help her escape and he didn’t do it, so nothing for him. Hugo says the money is for him and Alfonsina. Oh, they’re a team again now, huh? How convenient. They run the kid out of the house. Alfonsina opens the cabinet right next to the front door, which appears to be empty except for a large pink and white striped bag full of money. He couldn’t have found that when she was tied up? Unbelievable. They take the money and leave.

My recording ended here, I feel like I must have missed something important, somebody fill us in! I don’t have any lead in for Monday, nothing.

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