Caray, Caray!

The idea of those two predators (Ruben and Braulio) teaming up is making me lose my lunch.
 

You and me both! Poor Amalia!
 

Ellie:

Thanks for this wonderful, funny recap. Really like your style and the asides, lol. Especially about Mike Johnson, lol. He can do better.

As Bruno lay dying didn't he tell Wendy about OJ? Maybe not. I wish he had.

Poor Altagracia. I don't want her to die either. I wish she would have some type of miraculous recovery.

I really liked how Ana stuck it to Mil Amores, lol. I think he might be a wee bit jealous.

Did the two bar guys give Lourdes that paper saying that Pedro owned half that bar? The look on Mirna's face was priceless.

Urban:

I'm with you about Braulio and Rueben. I really didn't think Braulio would attack Amalia like that. I hope he gets caught and jailed.
 

This is the epi I called Everybody is Miserable or Everybody Suffers. Can't believe we've had four straight episodes were the emotional tone was the same for all the characters.

Rat Bastard and Would Be Rapist hooking up is bad news. My thinking is the RB wants the Mendoza's out on the street either for revenge against Maria or to get her to come begging to him for help either way it is repulsive. And he still doesn't know that Maria is engaged to JAntos and that the man has left for LA.

Let me see Amelia is in a coma, at home oh puleeze even for a TN that is ridiculous. On the other hand she really annoyed me in the scene with Coloso when she pretty much told him to keep hoping that JA won't return and Maria will be his for the taking. Hypocrite.

Unfortunately Amelia's strange parenting has made Paloma the same kind of doubter that Maria is. Oh gee Roddy kissed skank in training Vanessa. It was while they were on a break. Do these girls seriously believe their Principe Azuls will never have kissed another girl? And like big sis Paloma won't listen. Poor Isa is getting a college education on how NOT to treat one's boyfriends.

Lourdes certainly hit the trifecta with her little princess. A liar, a slut and a thief all wrapped up in one silicone enhanced package. Can't wait to see what happens when she finds out who took the money and caused two of the wenches to lose their jobs.

Not crazy about Ana using Sonador to stick it to Fernando. Neither of themdeserve it although only one knows he is being used to hurt a friend.

So our resident genus Weeping Wendy now makes OJ yet another promise to let him know when Santos arrives. Why oh why didn't Justo and Gracia tell her what they know about him.

Derecho and Curtis have to be the two dumbest cops on earth. They know someone tried to kill Santos, they now know that OJ has the gun used to kill the Bronze One and yet they still continue to think that Santos is some criminal mastermind. When Arnold dies tonight which it looks like, how will they still think that Santos orchestrated it since they also suspect he is on the way to see Gracia and they should be thinking in terms of the Death Train. Oh right thinking, not their strong point.
 

Ellie - Thanks a bunch.

Not putting Amalia in the hospital when she's at risk of going brain dead is just crazy.
 

What got me as I was watching this last night was how the hell can Braulio have the building torn down that easily, especially when it's an attached building (with the farmacia on the ground floor)? Is it really that easy to evict tenants and tear down a building?

And how can Derecho and Curtis still believe that Santos is guilty of anything other than leaving the country without documentation?
 

Urban

My point about Derecho and Curtis exactly. The problem is that they have it fixed in their minds that Santos is guilty and just ignore anything that leads otherwise. I think if they were watching OJ try to kill him while bragging about having fooled him with the money laundering they would still think Santos guilty. The pair of them belong working in archives because between them they don't have a functioning brain
 

Eli--Fantastic recap. You have a brilliant ability for nailing, skewering and forking all of them and the writers, too. I'd copy and paste too much if I had to pick out everything I liked.

Who cares about the first 11 minutes. It was probably about Santos and the fellow who fell over the side of the train.

Elvira is a sneaky thief. She probably won't feel one gotita of guilt over the two meseras getting fired for theft. Concho is too dim and Lourdes too proud to figure out there *was* someone else there. Let's see what Elvira brings home with dinero she's not supposed to have.

Maybe Mike could do better than Wendy, but Wendy would hit the jackpot with Mike.

Paloma--puleeze. You are a dimmer wit than I thought. You KNOW Vanessa lied to the teacher and the dirctor about everything you and Paloma got into and laid the blame on you. Dont'cha think for one little hot NY minute that she might have been lying----again?

Somehow, I think Ruben is going to buy the building from Braulio so he can become Maria's landlord.

 

UA--and wouldn't they have to give tenants at least 30 days notice? Have even 30 days passed since we started this thing! (Don't answer that, I was being facetious.)

 

Mads--That was an awfully small piece of paper to be the official document that Pedro owned half the bar. In any case, Mirna's going to destroy it, no?

 

Decie--Yeah, Amalia's in a coma with her hair perfectly coiffed, made up and lying on her best side to catch the camera.......
 

Eli--"The missing 11 minutes." I'm too lazy to go back and look, but I also think they had a scene where Oscar and Roddy finished up breakfast and then hustled them over to Maria's to pick up Paloma and Isa to take them to school.
 

I feel bad for Isabel. She's seeing everything she shouldn't about handling relationships with men. She seems smart enough to figure out that this is wrong, but she's also in no position to be helpful to her sisters.

Amalia trying to raise Oscar's hopes is also every kind of wrong. Maria has made it clear she is not going to love him the way he wants her to. It's time he either got back together with Gloria or met another woman. It's not like he would lack for opportunity.

I don't know what's standard throughout the US but in NYC landlords are required to give 90 days' notice for rent increases. I would therefore surmise that this would also be required for eviction for this reason. Anything less is cruel and unusual punishment.
 

With regard to Vanessa and her dirty tricks, she is an Elvirus in training. I shudder at what her parents must be like.
 

Assuming that JAntos is a Mexican citizen with US permanent residency (since he owns a business in the US), he hasn't broken any American laws that I can see. US citizens and permanent residents don't need to show a passport or anything to leave, just to enter another country. (Airlines check passports just to make sure you can enter the new country and they won’t get stuck having to fly you home if you can’t enter.) So if he broke a law, it would be a Mexican law. However, as a Mexican citizen, he might not need to document his entry into his own country, so it’s possible he hasn’t even broken a Mexican law. In AB, Daniel did it and it wasn’t a prob once he became a Mexican citizen. In any case, none of that is any of the LA cop clowns’ business.

I guess that because he owned the business, there is that photo-shopped photo of him with the Godfather, and he ran away, they think he is guilty and there is no need to look for more evidence or at any other suspects. “Think”. Yes, that’s the problem, alrighty.

UA, I would not assume that landlord-tenant relations in Mexico bear any resemblance to those in the US. The lease for the house I rented there was in absolutely incomprehensible legalese, but it was very clear to me that my landlord had way, way more power over me and I had far, far fewer rights than anything I ever heard of in the US, though when Braulio was trying to charge them for repairs, Maria pointed out that wasn’t allowed by the lease. So my best guess is that whatever the lease says is what goes. I agree with Anita, Ruben probably wants to come in to save the day and buy the building, and then use his position as landlord to sniff around Maria. BTW, does she know that JA paid off the debt to Ruben? I don’t remember him telling her anything about it.

 

He didn't tell her about that in front of us, which I expected would happen (if only to help create this situation). However, Fernando was there to see it and he can step in to help Maria. He witnessed the payment so Ruben can't just pocket the money and deny it.

Someone needs to prove that the picture was photoshopped.
 

I don't know. Since there's no receipt or anything like that, it's just Ruben's word against Fernando's. And Santos' word, too, for that matter. I wouldn't put it past that shark to deny any payment was ever made, but then there's no paperwork for the loan, either. So, legally, Maria could just tell him to take a hike. Which I hope she does, but I know she won't. *sigh* I have a bad feeling about this situation.
 

So true about it being Fernando's word against Ruben's and also was Fab Not also a witness. He is annoyed about the entire thing with Maria and might and I say might not back up Ruben.
 

Thanks, Ellie, for another marvelous recap. Sorry I'm late, but I was hoping to have time for more comments and then things got hectic for me today.