Caray, Caray!

Wow; that was quick!

Cruz, por favor, continue to shave. You have a prince's face.

If Victoria es capace de todo por sus hijos, why can't she manage to accept that Max loves Maria?

I'm trying to figure out why Guillermo fessed up to being Ximeana's inseminator. After Osvaldo confronted the beyotch you know he's going to tell Max and suggest a DNA test.

Dona Dementa will never leave bad enough alone. What JP witnessed in the chapel should add up in his head to a padded room and giggle jacket. It is more obvious to me all the time that Dona Dementa means for Victoria to destroy Maria and to gloat over the ruins.

Both she and Ximeana will have spectacular final exits.

Maybe all this craziness happens because the moon is always full.
 

Thank you so much Sara for such a quick recap. This episode left me really nervous. I really think Alonso is obsessed and not quite sane and looks like he might do something really nasty...like kidnapp María and hide her... and it looked like she was screaming in the previews...maybe in labor???) (another borrowed plot line...sort of like Leo with Eva.)

But what I, too, did not get was why Guillermo admitted to Oscar that he was the father and not Max. Something aboout witnesses. Why would Guillermo say that...to defend himself so he won't go to jail and so he makes Oscar feel responsible for denying the child his father if Guillermo goes to jail? But I am SOOO glad that FINALLY someone else knows and I hope Oscar tells Max ASAP!

So if that could be clarified, that would be great! THANK YOU!
Sharon
 

How did you get this out so quick, wow!!!
Great one Sara.

I was absolutely impactada when Guillermo fessed up & then damn, so did Jimena. I thought those things happened the next to last episode, are we there yet?

Buenas noches todos.
 

Sara, that was a fabulous recap and you covered all the bases for us. JJ and Napo as domestic servants? I dunno. There was a part in Corazon Salvaje where a couple of the fishermen dressed as women and went to town. That was a little funny, but I don't buy this pair.
Alonso needs more to do besides suffering over Maria and taking photos of her. Ick.
La Paloma
PS my work verification was whiches, a good description for Vicki, Burnie, Roxi, and Ximena.
 

I need for Barbara Greco to bust out of jail and take X-box back to the manicomio.

Dr. Obregon, come get your patient!
 

I read in the advance that says X-box lies. I wonder what lie she will come up with? And will O's buy said lie?

That baby is to darn cute!!! I sense now that Max has bonded with the baby,if Guillermo tries to take him Max will fight for him. Lord knows I hope he does. Poor child has a psychostalker for a mom and the devil for a dad.

Photo boy can't take a hint can he? It is so apparant that Maria only sees him as a friend.I thought it was rather creepy that he watched her sleep then tried to kiss her. He is acting as crazy as X-box.

ITA about Dona Dementa and Ximena having spectacular end. I thought both Leo and Marci on Eva Luna got what was coming to them. I know that Dona Dementa will have a great firey end.
 

Thanks everyone!

Confession: I watch the episode on Daily Motion and recap throughout the week. As I watch the episode on Wednesday, I do some tweaking.

I have no clue why Gui confessed. Is it part of the "plan" Burnie and he are cooking up?

None of the avances made it look like Os was telling Max (but they do fly by rather quickly.)

Also the avances made it look like Maria was in labor...but that was one of those super fast subliminal flashes that may or may not pertain to tonight's episode.

So, when Max found out Maria was preggers, he said he was going to divorce Xi...do you think he will still do that? And will Os tell Max this week? Or will it take 15-20 episodes?

I'm so excited about the new business!

At first, I kind of liked Lonso. But he really is becoming a creepy guy.

I'm ready for them to get back to Fer, Nati and Toni's story lines.
 

Ximeana will most probably pull an emotional blackmail stunt. As Max isn't the biological father of the baby he will have no legal grounds on which to get custody. For Max to get custody would be in the baby's best interests, as neither Ximeana nor Guillermo would be fit parents. Perhaps she will threaten to fight him over custody if he divorces her.

Max could, por supuesto, expose the whole thing in court. This would create a scandal which could lead to him getting custody unless Guillermo decides to fight him.

It's no surprise that the first thing Ximeana thought of was her scars vis a vis her modeling career. In view of her addiction to pills and booze, I expect the straight-talking doc to advise that she enter rehab.

Under the heading of parallel plotlines, I see Dona Dementa attempting to get custody of Maria's baby. The germ of this idea has already been cultured with her constant rants about Maria being as tainted as Victoria.
 

Thank you, Sara. So fast, smart and complete!

Alonso is indeed creepy. It's a shame -- the character could have been a breath of fresh air. Started out that way, but now the characterization is going overboard.

Once again, despite myself, I find Osvaldo to be the wise one in the family.

Sara -- I, too, can't wait to get back to the vecinidad, Fer and Cruz.

Don Napo and Juanjo. Does anyone find the fast, high-pitched voices funny (a Mejia attempt at humor)? Every serious novela needs a comic thread, but this one is failing us.
 

Thank you Sara, this was really great!

"...Cruz is somewhat shaved and coiffed!..." but less so than when we saw him in the scene with Fer. Too bad he doesn't shave more often.

"Xylophone music plays indicating a baby is nearby." you really have a good ear for the nuances of the soundtrack. But I did catch that one. It cracked me up.

"Oz's facial expressions look more like gas than worry"—I thought so too, or maybe emergent appendicitis, then we could all stay another week in the hospital. What kind of a private room is Ximena in anyway?; it looks like a luxury hotel suite.
 

The chipmunking is getting on my last nerve. There are better styles of comic relief and there is also gallows humor, which Mexican writers used to do so well.
 

Sara you sure had a "fun" episode to get through. And maybe a little painful.Way too much Xi, and for your fortitude getting thri all her rantings, we are greateful. (Me personally...fast forward button.)

My curiousity is also piqued on Gui's motive. He certainly wouldn't want the baby...or would he? Another chance to simply stick it to Os?

Are we really supposed to "like" Vic because I'm having a tough time feeling anything positive for this woman.

Man, hate that Alonso is going to the stalker, possible bad-guy side. Hopefully it won't get that bad...I kind of like him. Not as much as JP, WHO WE ARE GETTING ENTIRELY TOO LITTLE OF LATELY. That needs to be corrected.
 

Sara - Wow, thanks for the excellent recap, bark & snark. You have outdone yourself with the snark-factor, and the sub-headings are fantastic.

"Dona Dementa will never leave bad enough alone. "
UA - LOL! The moon is always full in Meh-jía telenovelas. It was confirmed if you watched FELS.

I think the *chipmunk* scenes are a trademark of Mejía's. I haven't seen anyone else's telenovelas that do that. (!gracias a Dios!)
 

Thanks, Sara. I saw on a tv entertainment show yesterday that William Levy will appear in Jennifer Lopez's new music video. They were saying ''Who is this guy?'' and answered that he is a telenovela actor. They were also saying that often the telenovelas are beating the American TV shows in ratings. Also, it seems that there is a new telenovela on Telemundo [I think] in which the young actors will speak in Spanish sometimes and English at other times. Like my young students who speak English with their friends and Spanish at home with their families. Interesting, no ?
 

susanlynn - When I'm talking with my friend from Mexico City, there are many conversations where I speak in English and she speaks in Spanish. Anyone listening would be going "huh???" ;-)
 

Sara- You had me chuckling through your recap, which was a perfect way to dull the pain still lingering in my brain from the moaning and whining of Xi and the piercing cries of those babies. Yikes!

If you want to check out the BIGGEST premie ever, check out the one in En Nombre del Amor. That one was so huge it was laughable. I'm not talking just a regular full term baby, like the cute bebito last night. This was a BIG baby, period. That baby, like this one, was born to a blonde mother and a blonde father, but had the tell tale black hair of its real father. Two recessive genes, lead to recessive traits. That baby should be rubio (well, at least bald, as rubio babies tend to be).

I am very sad to see Al go into creepy stalker mode. Please pull back from the edge Alonso! You had so much promise.
 

Appearing with JLo should give WL's career a boost in the US.
But what is he going to do, I don't think he sings or dances, I guess just look guapísimo, good enough!

What show was that susanlynn?
 

Telenovela ratings exceed English language ratings during finales and premieres. FELS had the highest-rated premiere in Univision history as of 2008 and Alborada was the first whose finale episode was the #1 rated program -- regardless of language -- in the US. La Madrastra was #1 in NY and a few other markets on its finale night.

The obvious reason for this is that -- on a national basis -- there are only 4 Spanish-language networks. I get a whole bunch of smaller ones in my cable package but since Telemundo is usually a distant second to Univision anything else isn't even on the radar.

BTW my cable company dropped Azteca sometime in the last 18 months.

Televisa is visible to folks in US border towns, so Univision usually takes second or third place to it there (although Televisa isn't measured by US Nielsen).
 

¡maldito!
Now, we have to put up with
mi hijo/a's
from Roxana & phony ones from Jimena, in addition to the 10 per day from Victoria.
 

I don't get Azteca on cable, but I do get it on a small digital TV I have in the kitchen. I just can't find anyplace for TV listings for digital.
 

Variopinta~~~The show was Extra with Mario Lopez, I think. [I was channel surfing when I saw the spot about William L. ] The clip that they showed of the music video showed Will looking lovely on the beach as JLo hugged him tightly. [I wonder if hubby Mark was right there watching.] I guess William also appeared on Housewives of Miami. I've never seen thst show.
 

Sara,

I had to take a moment from embroidering a pillow with my favorite line (among many!)--

"Recappers: we're watching the crap so you won't have to"

-- to thank you for the wonderful job you did! Sooooooooo funny -- ¡Me meo de risa!

And then there was this one:

"[Lack of genetic tie notwithstanding] If Max is a stupid apple, then Vic is the stupid tree"

A few general remarks --
Telenovelas do love crossdressers so we were bound to see at least one. But you are so right -- Napo is absolutely 'el feo más feo'. Really, so 'feo' that he did make me laugh! BTW, 'mucama' was a new word for me. There sure are a lot of ways to say 'domestic servant' in Spanish. Must be the heritage of the Conquistadores, huh?

I agree with Anon 1:26 that Max has bonded with the baby. If Os tells him the truth now, it will be very painful (maybe that's all Gui is aiming at?). But here's some pure speculation: What if we're being set up for the reveal that Os isn't Max's father? In this novela which takes such pains to match parent and child, Max and Osvaldo don't appear biologically related. And we know that Max's mother had a wandering eye...
 

NovelaMaven

"¡Me meo de risa!"
I looked up meo & found mear, then I put it in the translator, ja, ja, ja
¡¡¡Yo también!!!!
 

¡jajaja!
 

MiniMaxiMaria "should" have dark hair as well (through Maria, Victoria & JP and also Os).


"MiniMaximena" "should" have light hair and light(er) colored eyes and probably light skin, since both of his "parents" have light hair, light skin and light(er) colored eyes. But if Os* is really Max's bio-dad**, the dark gene could have skipped.

I excuse the dark eyes of Maria as part of Bernarda's dark eye genes, because neither Victoria nor Juan Pablo have dark eyes.


*The child of Os + Max's mom "should" have dark hair and dark eyes like Os, even if the mother were blond & blue eyed UNLESS one of Os's ancestors was also blond/blue eyed and that trait just came through in Max. However, it would not surprise me if Max is NOT Os's bio-child, Os knew it all along but decided to raise Max as his own anyway.

**Os's coloring is the same reason why I don't think Max is Gui's child*** either (should Os end up not being Max's bio-dad) because Gui & Oz have the same coloring: Max should have dark hair/dark eyes as the product of either of them. Max's Mom's lover is probably Max's bio-dad, should Os prove not to be Max's bio-dad.

***If Max IS Gui's child, Max would then be the father to his own brother.
 

Sara, UNBELIEVABLE recap as always! Thank you for the Spanish translations!

Why do I think that Oz won't tell Max that he isn't the father?!!! Please, please tell him!!! I think that either Xi will come up with some lame blackmailing scheme that or he will see Max's joy at being a father and not want to rain on his parade...AAAAAhhhhh!

I want him to tell Vic YESTERDAY that Xi, whom she backed 100% is a liar and an adulterer. Remember when Vic told Xi, early on in her office, that anyone who deceived her would have a mortal enemy for life? I want some of that!!

And what are they doing for doctors out there in the jungle? Please tell me she's not going to do a home birth!
 

Two people with dominant genes can have children with recessive traits (light hair, light eyes, light skin coloring). They can have kids all over the spectrum because they can carry and pass on dominant and passive genes.

1 person with passive genes + 1 person with recessive genes can also have kids all over the spectrum. Max could have had one blonde parent (him mom) or no blonde parent, and still come out blonde.

But 1 recessive gene person + another recessive gene person have no dominant genes to pass on. Unless either Max or Xi is a bottle blonde, then something is up with that black haired baby.
 

Fun recap! And I was amazed to see it so early - I was able to read your's before Uni televised it. That was a great help. Thanks!

The only good thing about chipmunking is that we have less time to deal with JJ - what was with the dancing on the chair? What was THAT about?

I looked up the translated lyrics to Y Abrazame - I think the song gives a clue to Alonso's character. The song sounds like the character is dying and is desperate to be with the person s/he loves.

I don't think they adequately gave a reason for Cruz showing up at the hospital. But it was a nice way to find out sooner that Maria is gone.

I also think that Gui told Osvaldo he is the father because what else does he have to lose? He has already betrayed his friendship & shown his hand. Why not throw it in Os' face that this child is not even his nieto?

On speaking Spanish/English. DH went to a salvadoran restaurant last night. After he ordered, the man behind the counter asked him if he speaks Spanish, in Spanish. DH actually recognized what he was asking him, even though the only spanish exposure is watching TdA once or twice a week with me! The power of the telenovela! lol
 

Story on the William Levy shoot with Jennifer Lopez

http://www.latingossip.com/jennifer-lopez/jennifer-lopez-shoots-vid-with-william-levy.html/comment-page-1

http://www.latina.com/entertainment/music/jlo-makes-william-levy-offer-he-cant-refuse

http://entretenimiento.aollatino.com/2011/04/06/william-levy-jennifer-lopez-video-shoot/
 

Buen hecho, Sara. Wish you hadn't told us your secret. Here we thought TDA was being recapped by a supercapper.

Loved the comments on the snarky phrasing, especially you, Anon207. I've been watching MEPS in the afternoons (catch as catch can) and thought there was something familiar about Xi-Li.

All this fessin' up can only lead to a DNA test for Mini-MaxiGui--we hope.

Didn't Fer tell Cruz to go find Max? Then he went out the window. Now I can't remember why.

Let's not get too far into the weeds with this dominant or recessive gene thing. Let's just readjust our beanies because all that matters is that William was picked to be THE galan--and anything is ok with us if he's in the lead.

Many babies do not lose their fetal hair until a few weeks after birth. Both my son and daughter were born with clouds of dark curly hair, though me and the papa were blue-eyed rubios in our youth, and they turned blond as their black hair fell out.
Newbie-O-K
 

"I am so tired of this song. Please. Do it and get it over with. For all our sakes." Aaaackkkackkackkakk! Ditto! ISTA! LOL!

Ok. So what is Oz going to do about telling his family that Mini-Max#1 is really Mini-Gui? I want to see how Victoria handles that one!
 

Fer told Cruz to go to the hospital because Max would need him as in support of a friend in his difficult time.
 

Yes, and when Fer told him to go to the hospital, he was so beautifully groomed, but what happened along the way, because that beard grew in all rough and nasty again.

And Sara, I'm glad you revealed your secret, because now I can applaud your resourcefulness.

@NewB: I was thinking the same thing about the newborn hair. A lot of times it looks black and then falls out.

@Jardi: "So what is Oz going to do about telling his family that Mini-Max#1 is really Mini-Gui? I want to see how Victoria handles that one!" He's probably going to keep his mouth shut like the rest of these long-suffering idiots and keep the plot rolling along. I want to see how Maria handles it!.

What I didn't understand was why they blabbed the truth to Jimena about never having children again. In the real world, that's precisely the sort of thing you would never say in a crisis; you would let time heal the wound and reveal the truth gently at the right moment. These people are savages.
 

Vivi in DC said..."Two people with dominant genes can have children with recessive traits "
True. It's the old XX-YY stuff we learned in school. DH and I are both brunettes, but our son's hair was light blondish-red from the day he was born (titian is what my MIL called it) until middle school, at which point it became his current adult auburn hair color. There were red-heads on both sides of our family, a couple of generations back.

Cruz sent to hospital, in order for Max to coincidentally learn María has left town, would be what someone here at CarayCaray called a "plot propeller". Their purpose is to move the plot forward… a perfect term IMO.
 

You would have thought that JP and Nati would have at least considered the possibility that Maria left with Al, as she had been considering. Of course they would have expected her to at least leave a note first!

I want to see how Al explains kissing Maria, on the mouth, while she was sleeping!
 

I agree Vivi in DC! That is so creepy re: Alonso! And isn't this her first night at his house?? For all his talk about taking care of her and the baby, he sure didn't waste any time putting the moves on her. I so do not trust him.....
 

Hi, doesn't Vic have to find out someday that Maria is her daughter? Will Vic go to tell Maria to come back, Maria goes into labor, and somehow miraculously only Vic or our local handsome prieset have blood to give her?

Does Guillermo want Os and family to be distracted over the lawsuit so he told him about the baby, which will lead to a divorce between Max and Xi. Of course Gui will tell Xi to go for the money, which he needs now, if the case goes to court. Now Gui, Xi and nutty mama can now have the boutique and their money? Just guessing. I watch this show only on Fridays, but now with Eva Luna finished am trying to get into it.
 

Nellie- I am sure it is Bernarda who will tell either Maria or Vic about their link, in the most hateful/painful way possible at a moment when one of them is already down. Like when she revealed to Vic and Maria Magdalena that they were not mother and daughter just when they were at their happiest with each other. She will likely wait to reveal this "happy" news just when Maria D and Vic hate each other most.
 

Well, I'm sure Mejia never thought to ck chromosomes, even the smallest fact escapes him & his characters are dumb.
 

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Speaking of María Magdalena, ¿dónde esta? I want to see her again, I like the actress.
 

Sara, thank you so much for the recap, I really appreciate it.

I was really surprised that BSCX told Os the truth, she must have been drugged.

Lon is getting creepy with his obsession. They need to get back to town, I don't think Maria is safe with him.

How did JP turn out be such a good man with Burnie as his mother?

Rosemary
 

Yes, red heads can pop up from brunette parents. My maternal grandfather had red hair as did my mother and sister. I am a brunette like my dad and both my grandmothers. My mother's sister and her hubby were brunettes, but one of their brunette sons and his brunette wife had 2 brunettes, a blonde, and 2 red heads. My redheaded sister married a blonde and had 4 blonde children. Out of 11 grandchildren , she has only one redhead.
 

Rosemary, it was because he had Octavio for a father.

Vivi, you called it.

Now if Guillermo brings up the idea that he might be Max's father, that will not affect Osvaldo's relationship with Max. However, when Leonela finally shows up there will be lots of nasty words exchanged, not to mention that Max and Vic are going to be peeved at having been lied to.

A DNA test can show that two people have the same mother or father. Unless Gui can pull the same trick as Carloca in ENDA it will show -- either way -- that Max is not the baby's father.
 

Sara wonderful recap as always thank you.

Loved Burnie going at it with Victoria clueless. Sorry Victoria deserves the way everything is Maria E.'s fault but what about what she did to help create this mess of Max's life?

Os was on a roll last night loved him putting Victoria in her place and his telling Roxana to get out of the room.

So i was surprised Gui told him about the paternity so quickly and like that too.Wonder what Gui has up his sleeve? I think it has to do with the theater and the lawsuit Os has going against him.

Victoria has always emotionally blackmailed Max over his responsibility and sacrifi9cing for the baby. One now Os knows that the baby isn't Max so when will he tell her? Two no matter what she needs to own up to her part over forcing him to marry that nasty skank and now the baby may not survive because of booze and pills she took. Not once did Victoria ever say to her knock it off with the booze and pills.

Didn't i say XXX-factor would never stop with emotional blackmail now she thinks Max has to stay with her. She deliberately set herself up with the accident by wrapping her hand around the seatbelt.

William Levy was talked about on Gordo y Flaca last week about being in Jennifer Lopez's video they showed the pictures of them together on the beach and a boat they said they are good friends.
 

Mariquita, tks for the links, hop our boy goes far.
 

Who says TNs are brain candy? Look at the super smart discussion this episode inspired!
 

Sara really was Domineka trying for the impactada look? Perhaps she was trying are you talking to me look? Or perhaps what come again i didn't here you look? Her range is kind of limited though.
 

Well, I *am* bad at interpreting facial expressions. Usually that sort of line garners an "impactada" lol
 

No criticism i just thought what you wrote was so funny because i was wondering myself isn't she supposed to look muy impactada? I don't know what she was trying do in that scene other than looking like she was coming off being drugged up heavily from surgery, more than her usual look.

So i guess they must be Ultimas Semanas down in Mexico now right?
 

Var: Your welcome! I usually don't watch videos, but I'll keep my eyes out for this one.

Blu: TdA is episode 124 right now. Still about 25 episodes to go, we're not really that far behind them at episode 95.

Thanks All for clarifying why Cruz went to the hosp. I missed that exchange entirely.
 

Thanks for the recap so I can ffwd through all the boring parts!

I'll bet WL wishes he got to use his own new baby girl as the baby on the show, although I must say this baby is WAY cuter than the poor thing they used on CCEA. But you can tell that little baby on the show really likes WL, doncha think?

I'm excited to see him in JLo's music video but have mixed feelings about sharing him with the rest of America, haha. Oh, by the way in case you're interested, here's a link to a clip from when WL appeared on Real Housewives of Miami for a photo shoot. (His English seems to be much better here than it was during his "Boston University" stint on CCEA, anyone else notice/agree?)

http://www.imdb.com/video/hulu/vi529440025/

Seriously, why is Alonso such a creeper? And why are we repeating the plot of CCEA with Maria going off to a hacienda/lakehouse to have her baby?