Caray, Caray!

Awesome recap! You condensed it down without losing anything! Excelente!

I can't believe they actually let Altagracia die! I am so bummed. I really liked her. I was hoping she'd snap out of it at the last minute, telenovela style.

Some heavy-duty beanie-tightening moments, but whatever, I'm going with it! LOL.
 

Great work, Paquita. You also covered the stuff I wasn't clear about.

I wasn't expecting it this soon, but Fabian turned on Ruben. Serves him right. I hope he has relatives to take the children (whom I'm starting to doubt we'll ever see).

Of course Santos will be arrested and that is why he can't go back to Mexico. We have to worry about how long it's going to take for the El Lay Keystone Kops to realize he did nothing wrong.
 

Hated Gracia's death. Justo and Santos are going to b devastated while Wendy will go into full blown whiny mode about how SHE misses her mama.

Hate Fab Not but am glad to see him turn on the Rat Bastard. I want to see Ruben's attentions turned away from Maria while JAntos is away. He certainly got his divorce muy pronto and I can't believe that Lorena let him go that easy. I suspect yet another lie on his part and I did smirk when Maria dropped her I'm engaged bombshell.

That apartment of Ana's puzzles me. I thought she said it was Sonador's and she was staying there until her own got fixed up. What confuses me is that Fernando shows up like it is Ana's, yet Sonador waltzes in with a key.

Please writers spare me another scene of the Mendoza girls sprawled all over their comatose mother sobbing and weeping.

Clever of Justo to drive to TJ to pick up Santos. Lucky for him and Santos that Salvador has some street smarts and had a plan. I wondered what was going on when the BP stopped him and ordered the trunk be opened but then remembered that on the Death Train Santos had told Sal he'd have a job for him. Since Santos was about cars I figured that Sal must have figured away to hide them in the trunk to the point they wouldn't be seen and voila! Safe.

The Concho Lourdes scene was ridiculous. All she had to do was tell him and nosy Mirna that Sonador was the man in question and he is the son of her dear friend but no he gets to be used by yet another woman to make some guy jealous. Tedious.

Hate what those previews show, Maria throwing another fit, JAntos not telling or not being given time to tell her the truth.

How much more time tdo we have. I'm reaching the I'm sick of most of the stupid characters and just want it to end stage.
 

Ay ay ay, Paquita, no Jalisco but No Te Rajes, si? Well done.

Loved: Dr. Mike, DDS taking love advice from a big burly convict.

ITA, yawn...zzzz over Rodrigo and Paloma *anything.* I'd rather have another song from Roddy, but I'd gladly take another yawn...zzz of R&P than another Gloria-thanking-the-Virgencita and Daniela scene (although I have to admit, I like her bandana'd do over her loose locks).

The moment we've all been waiting for--how Santos and Sal were going to get across the border and we get an empty trunk? Then he shows up in his dying mama's bedroom? C'mon, it would have been much more fun to watch that unfold than Paloma & Rodrigo running around.

Even though it was supposed to be impactante, to me it was a little creepy for Santos to be all over her while Justo just looked on. Where was Wendy? It should have been Justo embracing her in her last moments on earth. I know I know, there something "special" between a mother and her son, but this was a bit over the top. Sorry, rant over.

So we were faked out by much more than the empty trunk:

--Santos & Sal's too easy getaway from the Tijuana Police Station--as if they'd been there before, they knew just where the exits were and how to hide from patrol cars by tying your shoe.

--Ruben is going to double-cross Braulio. (Wonder how that will turn out for our no. 1 landlord.)

--Fab Not rats out Ruben and he knows how to speak Eye-talian (Who'd a thunk Fab Not is higher up in the Mafia ladder than we thought).

--Ruben telling Maria the truth about the debt. (We so knew he was going to make her indebted to him forevva).

--Fernando not getting away from the goons.

--Mirna taking tele-inteligente photos of Lourdes from what, outside, through a glass window and it comes out as a close up?

--OJ is ice cold to look Arnold in the eye and shoot him with what looks like something you would assault a fortress with. And he knew where Arnold was going to be?

Maria started school again, had to quit school to watch comatose mama 24/7. Coloso says she needs to go to school again and she agrees. She leaves mama to go to delegacion to file an action on Braulio. Mama had better wake up soon. This coming and going is all very hard on Maria.

 

Decie Girl--Like sister, like sister--if we are to believe tonight's phone call. They don't believe in listening.
 

Excuse me for bringing this up, but it has been bothering me for a couple of nights. As a comatose patient, Amalia has been bundled up with just her face in view. Isn't it kinda hot in that apartment? Maria wears off the shoulder tops whenever she is off duty.

Ok, here goes. Do comatose patients continue to void and defecate? I don't really know. How are they getting fluids into her without an IV?

Am I overthinking again? I guess this tn is so unbelievable I look for all the discrepencies. They didn't hesitate to take Amalia to the hospital the first time, why now?

Altagracia's expiration. We need Dr. Carlos' insight into whether this is a normal end for a brain aneurysm? I know we discussed it over on Amor Bravio no end, but Miriam's was an imposed fake diagnosis.
 

Anita

I won't get into the aspects of Coma Mama's care. There are all kinds of issue like keeping her hydrated but heck it is TN and the Mendozas apparently need to lay all over mama and weep. SMH

My understanding of aneurisms is that they are a bulge in a vein or artery and they can burst at any moment. My FIL died of a stomach aneurism and yet we had a friend who had one in his head for years so go figure. I don't know about the pain aspect, however.

So agree that Justo should have been right with Gracia not Santos. I really felt for him. I hate her death having been used as cheap plot device. She should live to see her children happy not die when one is under suspicion of a serious crime and the other is going to be an unwed mother.

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Thanks for the recap! Was everybody in like stealth mode in this episode?

Glad Santos got to be with Gracia in her final moments. Too bad she had to get sick and die.

Well Arnold's death was pretty quick. Does that mean Giu is going to be responsible for the most deaths in this TN?

If Amalia shares the same fate as Gracis then thart would be sad.
--TF
 

Ruben may have realized he had no choice; Fernando was present when Santos paid him.

It's only been a day since Amalia's collapse. If they don't have Maria talking about incontinence pads or adult diapers soon I be screaming at the TV.

I hope that guy carrying the buckets remembers when he saw Braulio running down the stairs. That's the only thing they can use to hold him responsible for Almira's condition.


 

Hey everybody--If Amalia makes it, do we see a Justo-Amalia pairing in the end? [JUST KIDDING]
 

Never happen.

I'm more worried at the moment about the avances for tonight's episode.
We are now at the midpoint of the series.

How many episodes before Maria faints?
 

Anita

I had the same thought but it will never happen. He is a one woman manand Amelia would really be lost in his world.

The moment Maria faints i may be bailing. I'm disgusted at the thought they might give us another version of Gloria's story or worse have Maria marry someone she doesn't love.


 

Thank you, Paquita, for getting it all for us in this sad, weird episode. It was action packed, but seemed to be missing pieces. They must still be editing scenes, but if it gets us through this thing faster, that’s okay with me.

Anita, I think a Justo-Amalia pairing would be very cute. :)

So convenient of Arnold to go for a walk in the perfect place to be murdered. I know that I just love to stretch my legs under a freeway bridge whenever I know some maniac wants to kill me. And how DID OJ know where he was?

I didn’t know there were neurologists who made house calls in LA. Silly me.

I was also creeped out by Santos hugging his mama with dad watching from around the corner. And where the heck was Wendy? Chatting about the family news with her BFF, OJ? This TN would be so much improved if they just managed to have scenes include the logical people and positioned them in logical places. Is that too much to ask?

DCG, I think that apartment was Sonador’s. Fernando knew where it was because he had stopped in there before to try to talk to Ana. But that would be logical, so maybe not.

Ruben telling the truth. Who wudda thunk? And the sharks eating their own already. WTG. I have kinda liked smart-but-bad boy FabNot since the beginning, but I think Rub will outlive him and I just hope he does Rub some damage before his anvil makes him go splat.

Coma Mama, LOL! That whole thing is just plain ridiculous. She bumped her head on the coffee table and the doc somehow knows she suffered a psychological trauma. Right. Then, through some sort of magical brain scanning ability, he says if she doesn’t wake up, she’ll be brain dead. Then he leaves her at home to be hugged and wept on instead of giving her medical care in a hospital. Yes, people in comas need things like IVs and respirators, and they also need a proper diagnosis. I am thinking we are just being set up for another ‘Big Scene’ meant to make us clutch our hankies, but will instead make us throw things at the TV. Or maybe they really do intend to kill off all the moms in this show. So far, we’ve lost Santos’ mom, BartyBoy’s, Iresema’s, heard about Fernando’s, Sonador’s, and Bruno’s croaking, had a near miss with Roddy’s, and we’ve got Maria’s teetering on the brink. And I am all in favor of making the world a better place by offing Lourdes, Mancia and Lorena. I would hate to have those three be the only surviving moms. I think that’s all the moms that we’ve met so far. I am going to root for a complete momocide. No point in stopping partway.