Caray, Caray!

Thank you, TJ!

I love how the episode starts AND ends with Pluto looking really unhappy. At long last!

A taste of things to come?
Or a prelude to mayhem?
 

Woo hoo! I was cheering with you, TJ. Pluti looked completely stunned when Helena said they needed to end the relationship. Thanks for the recap.

Helena seemed to get a hard dose of reality when she was wearing the wedding dress, seeing that she didn't want to be at the alter with Pluti.

Rebeca is doing a great job in her skanky beotch role, always looking for ways to make trouble for all and sundry.

La Paloma
 

You couldn't type 'cause you were screaming and dancing at the same time! I was too TJ. Great summary!! I also like the praying mantis imagery for Rebecca's and Pluty's love making. Someone's getting eaten alive there!

Earlier on I had to laugh about the Mistral family heirloom winding up in Helena's cleavage. Better there than at the bottom of the ocean. (If it were me, it would have slipped right thru to the restaurant floor in a millisecond.)

I was also laughing at the thought of what, 6 ft 3 inch Eva, getting into her boobs etc in a VW bug! And then she looked absolutely stunning in that black dress at dinner. I wonder if Jaime Camil would have a free moment to give me some makeup pointers? Gertie
 

TJ-Thanks for this great recap. With all of you! I was wooo hooing along with Helena dumping Pluti, about time! Glad Silvia is on her side too, and that Lalo told her more about Pluti's nefarious advice.

Darn I thought for sure that Renato had caught a payoff with Rebe and Felix. Too bad. She needs an anvil too.

Loved the praying mantis line you had TJ for Rebe and Pluti, lol. They so belong together and I love the way Rebe calls him Pinocchio. That nickname so fits him lol.

Loved Mimi's talk with JC and how much of a good friend and advisor she is to him. And she'right. It would take him forever to really learn about women, lol. Hope Mimi and Adri eventually end up together, they would make a fab pair.

Loved the look on Pluti's face when Helena told him it was over. It was such a stoopid look, like say what??? Lol.
 

Thank you for the recap, TJ.

My read on it, at the bridal shop, was that Eva/Juan was enthralled when Helena came out in the wedding dress, because Juan could see how miserable Helena was, which reinforced to him that she doesn't want to marry Pluto.

Yesterday we talked about Pluto's downfall. I predict that when he finds out that Juan is alive, he tries to murder him ("If I kill Juan, Helena will love me forever"). And that is the act that brings an avalanche of anvils down on his head.

 

Paula, I agree about Juan/Eva's reaction to Helena at the bridal shop.
I can't wait for Pluti's anvil to drop.
 

Yay!!! I was cheering with you TJ. No way Helena can turn back now. It's O-VAH Pluti! Now it's time for them to start finding real evidence against him. I will really enjoy seeing his world continue to crumble.

As for our other characters: I'm so sad about what's happening to Eugenia. Silvia looks better each day. Last night she and Helena looked almost like twins-- equally guapa. I really hope she stays strong and doesn't fall for Bastardo's sweet (if you can call it that) talk. I still can't feel any warmth for Fernando, and can't help feeling that the fabulous Marcela is wasting her love and affection on a loser when I see her with him. But, alas, she does love him, so I guess I have to hope for the best for him.

Looking forward to Luci and Santi living together. Let the sexual tension begin!
 

Thank you for the great recap! Of course I absolutely love the fact that Helena is finally following her gut and logic. I also loved it when she was talking to Lalo and dumped Plutarco and her dad in the same category as people who cause problems. The "seance" scene was too funny.

Jarifa
 

Thanks, Tablet Jefa! That was fun!

I couldn't sing and dance at the last scene because I was slack-jawed with amazement. I totally did NOT see that coming. Let's hope she sticks to her guns.

Anybody worried that Eva might have an acute attack of gastritis and end up in -- OMG -- the hospital? I am.
 

Looking ahead, I agree with Paula that Pluti's next move would be to have his thugs try to kill JC if he ever found out Juan was alive. Didn't he ask Onesimo to kill Juan early on when Juan was alive? not sure. I also worry that if Helena sticks to her guns, he may try something devious like having Lalo kidnapped. Then in cheesy Pluti style, "rescue him" to come off as the hero and win Helena back. I'm not sure though that even *that* would be enough to win her back. Just having fun thinking ahead! Gertie
 

You got a winner this time TJ. What a great episode.

The only downer is Eugenia. I hope that they don't drag that out too long.

Too bad Fer lured Marsela away from her review of that thesis. I so have my fingers crossed that she will find something incriminating.

I had the same reaction about Helena tossing the ring into her cleavage.

Stick to your guns, Helena. As all this old stuff with Lalo surfaces I have hopes for the return of his real father who will let Helena know that it was Juan not Pluti who convinced him to do the right thing for Lalo's sake.

And as for sticking to one's guns -- you too, Silvia. Don't fall for Eduardo's line -- until the end when he will have learned to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.

Güera
 

Thanks for the recap, TJ. It was very enthusiastic. It's so much more fun to watch this with you guys than to watch alone and have no one to celebrate with. This was an exciting show, right from Helena's discomfort at the dinner table with Pluti and Adri, to that excellent telling look on her face while wearing the wedding gown, to her talk with Lalo where she balanced comforting him while hiding her anger at the Putz, and then the brush-off! She did first accuse him of being dishonest. Then when he feigned ignorance she just went right to confessing her own dishonesty instead of getting caught up in a yes you did, no I didn't back and forth BS. Very classy and smart.
 

I too loved Lucero's acting, Bill. Her expressions were not overdone Telenovela-style, but subtle, true and believable. Especially the way she comforted Lalo and showed anger towards Pluto all in the same shot. Nice.

Yeah Blue Lass that gastritis can get him in trouble whether he is admitted to the hospital as Eva or JC. It will be discovered that Eva is a man And that man is a fugitive. Remember in the movie 'the Fugitive' when Harrison Ford had to break into a hospital and stitch himself up? Thankfully this is a 'dramady'.... If it happens, I am expecting a humorous spin. Gertie
 

Good point, Bill. When Helena accuses Pluto of dishonesty, he can argue, "You misunderstood; I didn't say that; that's not what I meant; I'd never do anything to hurt you."

But when she asserts, "I just don't love you," what can he say? "YES YOU DO!"? He has no out.

 

Yes - I am dying to see what Pluto comes up with to try to talk Helena out of dumping him. He's got nothin'.

Blue Lass - YES - I thought the timing of Juan's tummyache was interesting. A reminder that no matter how careful he is, he's still vulnerable.

Gerti, I don't think Pluti actually asked Onesimo to kill Juan way back when, but I know he was delighted when Juan had his accident. (Onesimo didn't seem too upset either, I don't think.) Heck, Pluto didn't even technically kill his own wife. And I vaguely recall Onesimo eagerly asking Pluto if he wanted him to mess someone up (I forget who).

So, they're not averse to increasing the odds of someone's untimely death; but so far, they've always stopped short of murder. We'll see who's willing to cross the line and when. My guess is that Pluto will give the order, but Onesimo will balk.

(Come to think of it, when Pluto and his goons threatened Lalito's father with a gun, was Onesimo there at all?)
 

I agree, Julie's, if PLuty gives the order, I 'll bet Onesimo balks, because there is a bumbling.lovableness to him. I want to say that Onesimo was among the goons holding the gun to Mario's head....but it was another goon holding the gun. Not him. I could be wrong that Onesimo was there at all...does anyone remember? Gertie
 

Sitting in the car at the accident site, Onesimo's reaction to Juan's death was like, "poor b@5tard." And Onesimo was pretty disturbed by Pluto's celebration over it. He may be Pluto's henchman, but under it all he has at least some level of basic human decency, and you just don't celebrate a horrible death, no matter whose.
 

Rebeca was disturbed by Pluto's celebration too, and at first I thought she'd turn out to be a decent person. But not long afterward, she and Pluti were both looking forward to Antonia's early death and doing their best to hasten it.

Nice people don't poison your wine, either, so Rebeca is actually worse than Onesimo. It remains to be seen if she's worse than Pluto. I doubt it, but in order to top the rat poison incident, Pluto is going to have to do something even worse.

Cheery conversation for a lighthearted comedy, eh? ;-)
 

Rebeca encouraged Pluti to finish off Toni when she was in the hospital, but he couldn't do it. Added to the poisoning incident, she's shown more murderous tendencies than Pluti. But she also saw Toni and Helena as rivals. Pluti would probably feel equally murderous about JC.
 

OMG they gave her rat poison? That's revolting.

I wasn't watching then, but I used to cruise by occasionally, and I liked her.
 

Just to clarify: no one gave Antonia any poison.

Rebeca put rat poison in the wine that Pluti and Helena were going to share during a romantic dinner. (And Onesimo knows about it, right?) Helena was nervous at that dinner and drank a lot of the wine and ended up in the hospital.

The poisoning had two great side effects: 1) it got Helena out of having to have sex with Pluto, and 2) at the hospital, the doctors (coincidentally) discovered a great big tumor or something and removed it.
 

Julie, yes Onesimo knows that Rebe put the rat poison in the wine, cause Pluti had the stuff they had for dinner analyzed and that's how he found out. Onesimo knows Rebe is the one that put the poison in the wine, but Pluti doesn't.