Caray, Caray!

Sara, the bare bones version works for me. Keeps the pain at a bearable level, speeds up the action.

"Burnie as religious tableau vivant" was my fave moment, for some reason. Maybe it was a perfect depiction of Burnie's attitude throughout and a foreshadow of how pride goeth before a fall. We're waiting for that.
La Paloma
 

Excellent job Sara! I watched 95% of it on FF>> mode, thinking I'd watch again if I missed anything important. Apparently, I didn't.

So what happened with Alonso? Did he really just disappear? Or did he do a Harry Potter and apparate to another TN? QTH -- did anyone mention him?

I had a great belly laugh during the 2nd or 3rd segment when Victoria went to the office. It looks like the hairstylist had a rough time recreating her Barbarella bouffant for this taping. Hilarious, nearly lost my cookies. Oh goodness.

It's time to put this TN out of our misery.
 

Excellent job Sara! I watched 95% of it on FF>> mode, thinking I'd watch again if I missed anything important. Apparently, I didn't.

So what happened with Alonso? Did he really just disappear? Or did he do a Harry Potter and apparate to another TN? QTH -- did anyone mention him?

I had a great belly laugh during the 2nd or 3rd segment when Victoria went to the office. It looks like the hairstylist had a rough time recreating her Barbarella bouffant for this taping. Hilarious, nearly lost my cookies. Oh goodness.

It's time to put this TN out of our misery.
 

How many more episodes follow this one? Burnie, XI, and Gui continue to create misery! I enjoy the bare bones version and you highlighted the key points! Where is Alonso as he faded out of the boda?
 

OK, here goes:

If Maria has any brain cells at all shouldn't she be asking herself how the hell Grannie Dearest knows the story of her birth? Victoria certainly wouldn't have told her and Maria knows the hatred between the two of them very well. Since she flashed back to Victoria's telling of the story I would have written it as Maria going to see her to ask whether she had ever told Bernarda. Both would then have the lightbulb moment that the only way Bernarda could know is to have been there. Which would have been why they were blindfolded.

Possession of the DVD of the kidnapping will be a piece of evidence to hang Bernarda on if she gets arrested before Divine Justice can deal with her.

Bernarda playing with the rope suggests that she will make one more attempt on Victoria's or Maria's life. If Victoria is the intended victim Osvaldo will put on the Superman outfit and fly to the rescue with JP right behind him. If Maria is the victim it will be Max.

It makes no sense whatsoever for Guillermo to encourage Leonela to drink if he intends for his production of Otello to be successful.

Finally, what kind of a professor is Joel for disembowelling a volume of Shakespeare? I'm not a teacher and I consider that to be sacrilege.
 

Sara - Just the facts, ma'am, and just perfect for me. Thank you for the recap. You hit all the highlights, and this works for me today. I didn't even have time to read Monday's recap until late last night.

The jarocha(?) at Millie's, wearing the B&W sun dress, is a good PSA about women of a certain age making questionable fashion choices. She needs a good push-up bra or a higher neckline. My eyes kept getting drawn to the flat .....

The Max/Maria luv scene seemed chopped up because the music sounded like it had been run thru the vegematic; it was chopped, diced & spliced. We must have gotten the U.S.A. PG-13 version.

I have a very bad feeling that Leonela will never achieve sobriety. She doesn't seem to be taking it seriously.
 

The final episode has been posted on darkiller. It is episode number 176. So that tells you about two more weeks.

Cindy
 

Thanks Sara you hit all the right points of what happened.

Uni always chops up the love scenes it's not even worth watching it on TV anymore you have to find the episode on online to get to see the unedited scene. But we get to see LindaHo's butt cheeks and crack for almost twenty minutes though that's not offensive or sexual in any way right?

If it's 176 episode this won't end in two weeks say in about over three weeks. Because this Friday will get us to episode 163 and next Friday 168 that's 8 more episodes left after that so it's more than three weeks. Maybe they might go back to showing two episodes to end it already.
 

So smart and funny, as always! You manage to get it all with just a few lines and you even throw in a few priceless details like -

Pips eyeglasses consist of bug eyes and each ear thingy is a fish-net clad leg. It looks weird.
LOL.

And thanks for picking up another of our 'martes desamparados' so no one is left without a TdA fix.

UrbanA:
If Maria has any brain cells at all shouldn't she be asking herself how the hell Grannie Dearest knows the story of her birth? Victoria certainly wouldn't have told her and Maria knows the hatred between the two of them very well. Since she flashed back to Victoria's telling of the story I would have written it as Maria going to see her to ask whether she had ever told Bernarda. Both would then have the lightbulb moment that the only way Bernarda could know is to have been there. Which would have been why they were blindfolded.

Excellent point. I hope it DOES play out that way. I couldn't take another "Bernie Bamboozles María with Her Creepy Lying Ways" plot meander.
 

Seriously though, Alonso just disappeared in white light and that's it? Did anyone here ever watch 'Lost?' That was taken right from the finale of that show. WOW.
 

Thank you, Sara, for explaining exactly what Os said. I guess that's that for the poor lug if he gave the dreaded "I love her too much to be with her" speech to Dr. Voice.

"...and tilt her head." Hah!

As for Bernarda...as much as I adore Daniela Romo...gah. Are we at least going to get lucky and see the Iturbide Browlifter 5000 get impaled by a church spire in the final episode, or crushed by a large religious icon, or melted and then blown up when Padre Jer shows up with the Ark of the Covenant?
 

We have finally reached the stage of a novela where I decide I hate everybody and hope they all suffer for the rest of their lives. They should be punished as severely as Burnie would wish for tormenting all of us.

The last two episodes have been flat and boring. It's like everyone is just sleep walking. i can't believe this close to the end they aren't giving us cliff hanger moments to keep us involved. I certainly hope Thursday's episode is a good one since we will have four days to dissect it.

Burnie is clever but too clever for her own good by telling Maria something she could not have known. Then again Maria is such an air head she won't think about it for more than a nano second. I didn't get her running away after eavesdropping on Max and Vic. It is as if she can't stand hearing nice things anymore than she can the nasty.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that PJP or someone with an ounce of sense finds that damning CD and busts Burnie.

All I can say is please God no more Cruz bursting into song. I find myself actually cringing when he hits those clinkers which he can reliably be counted on to do.

Gui impressed me. Who else could mount a full scale production of Otelo in a matter of days. I was actually hoping we would get a few minutes of him and Leo murdering the Bard.
 

Are we at least going to get lucky and see the Iturbide Browlifter 5000 get impaled by a church spire in the final episode, or crushed by a large religious icon, or melted and then blown up when Padre Jer shows up with the Ark of the Covenant?

All excellent ideas, considering that she was burned by handling the crucifix Victoria gave to JP. I wonder whether all the talk of fire is counter-foreshadowing.

Villains are usually punished differently in remakes. For the benefit of those who didn't see EPDA I won't say how this happened except that there is room for improvement on Bernarda although I would be hard-pressed to think of better ones for Gui and Xi.

As to someone finding the DVD and busting Dona Dementa, I'm wondering whether Xi and Rox will find it and attempt to blackmail her.
 

Holy mierda, I'm watching FELS waiting for Alborada, if you think Pablo Montero signs off key, you should have heard Jorge Salinas y Eduardo Yáñez, they make PM sound like Placido Domingo.

Gracias Sara, bare bones is more than this basura deserves.
 

That's sings off, but he probably signs off key also.
 

Variopinta

I remember that horrible duet between Yanez and Salinas and just thinking about is making my ears hurt again.
 

Today each one of Reyes brothers was singing to his novia, not together. Yáñez was the worst.

¡Que horrible!!!!!
 

I don't think Eduardo Yanez ever performed in a musical although Jorge Salinas has several on his theatrical resume. I have concluded that Mejia -- for reasons best known to himself -- deliberately uses the worst take of each song.

This sounds fine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvQ3bjG6PwY
 

Dani said... "We have finally reached the stage of a novela where I decide I hate everybody and hope they all suffer for the rest of their lives. They should be punished as severely as Burnie would wish for tormenting all of us."

Meh-jía, Abud & Co. should be punished as severely as Burnie would wish, for tormenting Viewerville.

I sncerely hope the actors in this tontería are wearing their telenovela beanie hats, for their own sakes.
 

Poor William Levy he's has another to do with Meh-jia the CDL remake.
 

I feel sorry for the actors in this shit. Some come out well, no matter the crap they have to deal with, Rios, Romo, Olivera. But what a shame for the newer ones like WL to be saddled with this basura. They must wonder "did I get in the right profession?"

That said, Mejia didn't hurt FC, but he wasn't very good back then. I guess exposure is the thing.

Guillermo Gárcia Cantú who was so good in that other piece of Mejia crap FELS, is not very good in this.
 

dani,
I agree, even the good ones should all fall into a volcano, with sth worse for the bad ones & even sth even worse than that for Mejia.
 

variopinta.......lol on your "holy mierda" thought that was the funniest thing said.....just struck me as too funny......Pablo Montero sings very good on his CD maybe he just needs a full orchestra......the last two nights have been really flat..........no good stuff and by now we should be getting the good stuff......maybe next week.......thanks for the recapp the bare bones are all we get from the novela.........good recapp....BNinCA