Caray, Caray!

I'm a little disappointed by Don Matias's sendoff. No one but Frida, Moni, and Pepe even talked about him. Did they even tell Tomas? He used to work for Don Mat also.
 

Great job Julia. I'm always amazed at what you come up with.

Favorites:
"twirls her waxed off mustache"

"This boinks for you, Candy"

"better farts than an infarto"

"No matter how much they sing about him [Pancho}, I still don't like him"

"Ugh, more Pancho"

The recaps have been outstanding and heroic, but this telenovela has been a disappointment and the main character about as charming as fingernails on a blackboard. Sure hope the next one is better.

And I apologize for my crankiness to those of you who enjoyed this one and found it comic and charming. Just goes to show that taste is very individual and there's no one "right" script or actor.
 

Oh, Julia you are the queen of short sweet to the point, and sooo funny! Loved the peeled grapes and palm fronds and the crime is love in the first degree, so funny!

I liked how Dona Rebe was flirting with the hardest working lawyer at Avon, Lic Mendoza. He took a shine to her too, and we found out his first name is Gabriel. I did like the celebration dinner, even though it was loud, cause the last one was so sad.

Poor Don Mattias. That was too sad and so unexpected, but Frida now has a new chance at something good. And she fired Pepe, that was good too. Now she stands on her own two feet.

Violenta needs to go already. I was hoping she wasn't going to jab anyone with that ring. Thank goodness Temo got in the way. I was worried too that she would pat Pepe in the back. Glad Moni kicked her to the curb. She has only ever caused Moni grief.

So now Vice is reaping everything he has sown. Good, finally. He has gotten away with too much already.I liked how Pancho was sniffing the air when he came in the board room. Must have been reeking of sulphur lol.

Candy a nun? Hmmm interesting, but I don't think she will last long there if she goes in, but then again she has surprised us before. I can see why she wants to be a nun, disappointed in love twice with the crimnal element. She did ask for a sign from God, maybe that's what she thought when the flowers fell and then she saw the nun.

Adrian just needs to go away, so agree with you Julia. At least he isn't using his daughters anymore. I think Lupe just wanted to see what was up with him. I liked how Lupe also talked to Frauddie. He just needs to get over himself, admit what he did and get back with Ana already. She is dead to him for spying, but he should be dead to her for lying.

Loved the intimate dinner of Lupe and Tomas. It was very sweet and the extra cellphone for only them. Too cute.

Poor Enzzo. He was too funny salivating all over the food and begging Concepcion for meat, any kind of meat lol. Chela is really making sure he is going to be ok. She rides rough shod on him, but loves him so much.

I wonder why Sebas is being so mysterious? He should just ask her to marry him already! I think he is planning something big, because she had such a crappy marriage with Vice, he wants to do something special.
 

Funny recap Julia, thanks a ton. I'd been gone for three weeks and missed all those episodes so have spent this week trying to catch up and make sense of it all - ha. Not possible, eh? Hard to believe it will be over next week. I am ready.
 

Julia, ITA that you are the queen of short and sweet. My favorites have already been mentioned, but I did love "For once that wretched kid has made himself useful." Amen to that sister!

Was Violenta wearing a dream-catcher for her earring? My aunt used to make those. We were supposed to hang them in the window to, uh, catch dreams I guess. The way she kept playing with her ring I'm surprised she hasn't poisoned herself yet. I was kinda hoping she would accidentally jab Temo; is that mean to say?

I'm enjoying the actress playing Violenta. She's doing a great job being a diabolical villain. I noticed in the avances that she and Candy do a chest bump. Wow, that's going to be something.

Hooray, more food scenes!! I love it when La Familia Lopez has a fiesta. The mole looked delish. Poor Enzo.

Thanks again Julia, I always look forward to your recaps.
 

A chest bump? That's like the Titanic hitting an iceberg. I wonder who's going down.

I wasn't sure if the earrings were dreamcatchers or spiderwebs. Maybe dreamcatchers with spiderwebs on them. Dreamcatchers were a common camp craft when I was a kid. We had about a dozen in our house. Violenta has the ugliest earrings. I guess money can't buy taste.

Surely Enzo can eat SOMETHING besides vegetables. Shouldn't he be eating fish and beans, at least? And Chela can surely come up with some low-fat sauce that tastes good. If he has some blockage that is bad enough he is having woozy spells, shouldn't he be getting some intervention beyond a change of diet?
 

Violeta's earrings do look sort of like dream-catchers but seem more elaborate and complicated. (Alien signaling devices?) I would describe them as nightmare-catchers.

Candy as a nun... interesting. I would think that'd be a choice for someone who's actually religious above and beyond merely going to church to pray only when they need help, but maybe she'll surprise us.
 

Low-fat? At the very beginning of this TN, they had a rent party at the Casa Popular and Chela was bragging that her tacos were very lean and low in fat.

But who knows what he was eating that whole time in Monterrey. (Buttered Twinkies?)
 

Julie loved the buttered Twinkies lol. Ya know I think its in Scotland they actually cover them in batter and deep fry them. Blech.

Julia I agree with you too about Enzzo. You would think he could eat fish and beans, the blockage he could get a stent for. Maybe it wasn't bad enough for him to get one.
 

Over at The Boardwalk they sell deep fried Twinkies. One time my friend got one but she couldn't bring herself to eat it. I allow myself to eat a Cajun Corndog once a year but that's it for the boardwalk junk food.

I can't believe starving Enzo is going to do him any good either. It's only setting him up to obsess about food.
 

Julia, thanks for a hilarious recap. Most of my favorite lines have been cited, but I loved these too:

"dressed for a sockhop and hopping mad"

"Slick Licky: Flirt flirt flirt."

"This boink's for you, Candy."

Poor Sebas. He's so afraid Pina's going to say "no." Out with it, man.
 

Sebas is kind of being a fool. I know he wants to give Pina the romance she didn't have in her marriage with Vicente, but what she didn't have and wants is openness and trust and honesty. I really don't think she cares much about big theatrical gestures. She creates enough drama on her own. She fell in love with Sebastian's cool, no-drama straightforwardness. Play to your strengths, Sebas. Just tell her you want to get married.
 

So is Mendoza interested in Mama Rebe? I'm on board with that plan.

(Exactly what went on between her and Doc Oc on Wednesday night? I was almost as confused by that scene as Doc Oc.)

Batter-fried Twinkies? I've heard of them. Someone told me they had them at the Minnesota State Fair or somesuch. I'd try one. And then I'd take care never to go back to that place again so I wouldn't be tempted to have another! (I don't like Twinkies generally, but I think they'd be good fried... as would pretty much anything else.)
 

Mama Rebe is going to be getting nearly as much action as Vicente, what with Doc Oc the other night and now Mendoza.

Yep, I believe she and Doc did it the other night when he thought she was Fernanda. It was a kind of weird yet kind of cute scene.
 

I've seen deep-fried Twinkies at the fair but I've never had the guts to try one (literally. I have a weak stomach). I've also seen battered, deep-fried candy bars. OMG. I hope no one eats the whole thing. I have also heard of some fairs offering battered, deep-fried BUTTER, which I would think would cause the universe to collapse in on itself.

I actually think that green smoothie looks good. It looks like Naked Superfood, which is tasty. Enzo is a big, active guy, and he needs more calories than a few bare vegetables will provide him, though. Time for our PSA on balanced nutrition and moderation.

Julie, that scene with Doc Oc and Rebe Sr. was weird, but I think it was just that he got confused and thought she was Fernanda, and she played along so he could have a happy moment. Nothing more. He's getting worse fast. It's nice that they drop by with meals but I don't think he should be living alone much longer.
 

WAIT, MamaRebe and Doc OC DID IT?! I missed that! I thought they just hugged! Okay, if that is true it is much weirder than I thought.
 

I assumed they were gonna do it. Maybe that's just me and my dirty mind. She had such a devilish grin is why I thought that.

Deep fried butter? QUE QUE QUE? I think at The Boardwalk they also have deep fried pizza and deep fried cheesecake.
 

Either they actually did it, or she just agreed to do it knowing that he'd probably forget and fall asleep if she stepped out of the room for a few minutes first.

I kinda think they did it, but I'm not sure I approve given that he thought she was someone else. That would have gotten really weird if he'd snapped out of his confusion for a moment.

Naked Superfood - I love it. But at least one of Enzo's green drinks looked even greener that that, more like a spinach puree. I like spinach, but not THAT much... I'd have to wash it down with a pat of butter or something. (Not batter-fried butter. I figure I have to draw the line somewhere.)
 

Have you all seen the schedule for the finale on Wednesday? It is from basically 7:00pm to 10:00pm.
Refugio starts the next night from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. I don't know if Refugio is also going to be 2 hours long like Familia.
 

Really? TV Guide says Abismo is on at 9 as usual Wednesday night. (But it agrees that Refugio is going to be two hours the following night.)

Wednesday is my worst night of the week. I'm always exhausted. I wouldn't mind so much having a three-hour final after a run of one-hour episodes, but now we're talking 7 hours in three days. YEESH.
 

Julie I got that on my cable grid. Maybe the first hour 7:00 to 8:00 is a review or flashback type of thing. I couldn't beleive what I was seeing either. That is a huge long finale.
 

TV Guide is often wrong. Actually, it's more like Uni isn't always good about notifying others in advance. With the LFMB finale they kept us guessing until the final night. Literally. (Like, we finally knew how many hours but didn't know if the first hour would be a rerun or not until the moment it aired. It was a rerun.)
 

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It turns out that the green Superfood drink I like is not Naked, but Odwalla. Though Naked is pretty good too.

Recap tomorrow morning. (Loose interpretation of "morning"... as in, I'm sure it'll be morning somewhere.)