Friday, December 12, 2014

La Gata #73 12-11-14 The little shack of venganza

 Monica has hired a PI to find out who is the other woman in Augie’s life.

 

This bright sunny morning finds Esme and Mariano in the garden with the babies talking about setting up a fair.  They will set it up together.  He smiles.  They make signs with glitter and stuff.  They seem to have fun.  They tick off the list of things yet to do. . .decorations, prizes, music. . .well, look at the time how it’s flown.  Dr. Hottie (Javier Penuela) arrives with Virginia.  He wants to help.

 

Face off between Lo and Gisela, Bitch 1 and Bitch 2.  They argue over who’s the bigger bitch.  Lo asks if she put the snake in the bed.

 

Much laughter and light hearted banter between Dr. Hottie, Virginia, Mariano and Esme when Pablo comes in to rain on the parade.   He marks his territory for Mariano and Dr. Hottie’s benefit, declaring his love and loudly slurping Esme..  Doc Hottie looks sick and Mariano looks like, whatever, punk.

 

Back to the bitch fest.  Bitch 2 says Lo will never know if she had anything to do with the snake in the bed.  Carries on about the maldita gata taking what is hers.  Lo saying Gisela will only get to gata over her dead body.  He’s mine/you’re crazy/a woman in love is despuesto a todo/. . .

 

Pablo and Lo discuss the evil Gisela.  Lo suggests Pablo and Esme go far away, travel through Europe.  Pablo refuses.  Esme will not want to leave:  her life and ties are here and her work with the Instituto.   And Esme is going to walk again through the sheer force of her will.   Let Gisela go away.  Lo appeals to him again.  Aren’t you going to marry.  He answers yes.  Then go far away so this loca can’t hurt you anymore.  The fight between El Sil and Augie is heating up again and could get very nasty, which could negatively affect Esme.  He’s thought of that and they are not going to let other people’s problems spoil their happiness.

 

Esme’s is back at the dump.  The kids swarm her like flies.  She hands out gifts.  Where’s Rita?  Oh Rita is not the same since this thing with Ines.

 

Ines and the two bueno para nadas discuss and plan kidnapping Esme.  Esme is the leader and to prove it she is seated  on a stump in front of them in a commanding wide-legged pose.  You go, girl.

 

Elsewhere in the dump, Rita is dejected and absently  tossing tortillas into a humungous pile of other tortillas on the ground.  (What?)  Jarocha looks like she wants to hurl.  Oh my poor Inesita led astray by that bad Garabato.  Jarocha tells her to cut the dramatics:  they tried to warn her Ines was making bad choices but she was blind to every mistake Ines made and was always defending her so SUCK IT UP!  Esme exclaims, the last thing we need is to fight!  We’ve got to work together to find Ines.  She rolls over to Rita and takes her gnarled hand and kisses it.  (Now I want to hurl!)

 

Now Pablo and El Sil are discussing what a crazy, evil heffa Gisela is:  he is tied hands and feet by the contract he signed with her.  El Sil confirms this.  When he was in the pen he developed an ability to read people’s true character at the first look and this is one dangerous woman!  Well, El Sil shouldn’t worry, he is going to protect Esme with his very life if he has to. . .unless someone runs into her with their car, puts a snake in her bed or tries to choke her to death.  El Sil notes one of Pablo’s paintings of her and Leti.  Help me out here folks cause it sounded like he said this is a painting of the Virgencita and when Esme recuperates they are both going to give it to the Basilica of Guadalupe.  Is that right?

 

The major point of this talk is El Sil wants Pablo to know the case that Augie has against him is very grave.  He’s taken measures to protect himself but right now he doesn’t even have a place to drop dead in.

 

Back to the dump. . .

 

Seems Garabato’s anti-gata programming has worn off or is he part of the “kidnap gata” plot?   He walks next to Esme talking about how Ines is out of control.  Gata cries:  We’ve got to find her!  It’s the only way we can help her!

 

Augie boards a cab and checks on his prisoner with Diogenes.  Hmmmm.  A black car follows him.  Let’s see what happens!

 

Oh, it’s El Sil and Pablo again, Pablo reassuring him there’s still a good side to the dealing with Gisela:  he’s selling paintings and he’s going to take care of Esme and the kids.  El Sil is glad they had this little talk and one more thing.  If he loses in the upcoming legal battle with Augie, he wants Pablo to promise to keep looking for Fela!  Whoa!  He remembers and actually pronounced her name!  Pablo promises.

 

Sickening scene in which Augie continues screwing with Blanca’s head.  He tells her the bad man is Fernando de la Santa Cruz. . .ooops!  Blanca freaks out and remembers Fernando is her husband and Augie is …..the ….DEVIL!

 

Time for therapy at the Instituto and Dr. Hottie has come to be near Esme and bask in her triumphs.  To hell with his other patients!

 

Augie reviews his plans to brainwash and conquer Blanca with Diogenes and us, just in case we’ve forgotten.  We see black and white fuzzy around the edges scenes of her real reunion and recovery with Fernando interspersed with Augies evil hypnosis.  Blanca twists and turns in a fitful slumber but it’s not the tics, it’s Augie’s torment.  She doesn’t know who she is!

 

Augie heads back to his cab and up pops PI dude from the weeds.  Oh boy!  Fela is going to be freed again!  Oh crap!  PI dude looks dismissively at the shack and decides to follow Augie instead in his black Nissan with the black tape on the logo.  Dang!  He’s so close he could’ve saved gas and just rode with Augie!

 

Whoa!  What’s this?  A pool full of pecs, gams and upthrust breasts?  Oh, it’s aqua therapy at the Instituto and Doc Hottie and his pal, the equally HOT PT who is, therapeutically of course, grasping the calf and well-turned ankle of the Raven-haired goddess.  Breathe gringo!  Breathe!  Dr. Hottie is also nearly breathless with admiration for the bravery of Esme.  Oh she is so special, doing therapy and stuff.  He just wants to be right there by her side when she gets up and walks!  Dr. Hottie’s face is a study in dopey devotion.  Hot PT dude looks at him like, unh hunh, who does he think he’s foolin’?  Esme doesn’t notice.

 

Augie’s back home and there is a gratuitous chew out and demean the servant scene.  Guess that got Augie warmed up for Pablo who storms in when Dorila answers the door.  Don’t you dare put another finger on my mama or I’m going to forget you’re my father and deal with you man to man!  Augie laughs in his face and essentially repeats the rants right out of the comment section from yesterday’s episode.  Man?  What man?  Aw, Augie gets him good:  calls him a stupid child, a good for nothing, Pablito and even tells him next time he wants to confront him, let him bring a gun and then they’ll meet on equal terms.  The last line is the clincher:  you were born a child and you’re going to die a child!   Damn, Augie!  That was out cold, man! 

 

Augie throws in his face he is not a robber.  He didn’t steal the Blank Paper of Evil (thanks, Diva!).  It was yo’ mumma, the Gran Lorenza.  Augie laughs in Pablo’s face.  Enter the Gran Lorenza.  Tell me!  Tell me did you steal the Blank Paper of Eeeeeevil!

 

Mariano and Monica talk.  He’s still in love with Esme but back to the BPOE.

 

She confesses and Pablo wilts and regards his mother with sadness.  Ok, back to Mariano and Monica.

 

There’s a knock on the door.  It’s PI dude, Pedro Leon.  Monica wants Mariano to hear the results of the skank investigation:   He has determined that El Sr. Augustin Martinez-Negrete spends lots of time in an abandoned warehouse and he leaves there and goes home.  What?  That’s it?  Mariano wants to know the address.  Well, he’s got to share this sensitive information with Sra. Martinez-Negrete first.

 

Back to Pablito, Augie-Doggie and Lo who looks past Pablito to swear that Augie will regret having betrayed her trusting him to keep her theft of the BPOE secret.  It was a moment of weakness in a crazy attempt to win her bitter-assed, one trick, sorry excuse for a husband back.  Ya basta!  No aguanto mas!  (Me either, Pablito)  You two are just alike!!!   Pablo’s outta there!  Augie beams triumphantly, Lo spits that she hates him!

 

Pablo tells the understanding and forgiving Esme that his own mother is responsible for the BPOE that’s going to sink El Sil.  She agrees not to tell El Sil.  Sad thing is, Esme says, she thought his mumma was on their side.  (What?  You did?)  Alas, the MNs only know how to cause suffering and once again Augie has El Sil cornered.  Pablo feels soooo bad.

 

Don’t feel bad Pablo because. . . .all together now. . . .We luuuuurve each other and with luuuuuuurve we can defeat anything!!!  Kissing to the gata theme, a little awkwardly but they get the job done.

 

The crack (and that’s probably literally since the idiot didn’t bother to even look in the frickin’ shack) PI dude, Pedro reports to Lo his findings, complete with photos.  Oh, well gosh darn!  It’s the little shack where Augie used to work for hours planning his revenge on El Sil. and he’s probably still using it for that.  Monica wants the shack investigated.  Why? Goes Lorenza.  Thank you, Detective.  Like that.  He’s gone.  That’s it!  Lo won’t listen to Monica’s pleas to investigate further.  Lo gives a speech about everything being dispensable in life except dignity.  She’s going to stay with Augie through the trial and then she’s gonna let him go his own way to do what ever the heck he wants to do.

 

Joyous scenes of garbage dump-fair preparations.  Well, I guess Garabato does have religion:  he’s helping and smiling.  Uh oh.  Is he going to fall in love with La Gata, too?

 

Ugh, here’s a scene of Gisela at Augie’s, we endure a surfeit of smiles and seductive posing.  Thank goodness it was short.  Can’t stand that ho!

 

The fair’s a success!   Yay! Whee!  Clap!  Clap!

 

Los tres estooges review the finer points of their kidnapping plan aided by a little social lubricant.

 

Augie fricks with Blanca’s head some more.  She turns on the waterworks and gets him to take her out for a walk in the sunshine and flowers.  Oh no, it’s G-spot again.  Oh, so this is your secret!  Your secret is safe with me.  I’m going to prove I am worthy of your confidence.  Blanca is as batty as bed bug and doesn’t know who she is.  Gisela smiles her approval and Augie looks like somebody really is pulling his short hairs.

 

 

 

 
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Comments:
Lila, estupendo! We had some little spots of interest in this episode and you managed to glue them together into a real, live story! I was smiling all the way through the recap--thank you!

Re: Ines' two bueno-para-nada henchmen, one of them is, I believe, a future Hottie Bueno-Para-Nada (the one with blue eyes and a golden-red beard, not that I was paying attention). On the same topic, Garabato does seem to be moving toward the light: he was carrying a little kid on his shoulders and he also put a piece of tape on Esme's poster!!! All this, I predict, is so we feel a little sad when he dies (no spoiler, just guessing.

I loved Mariano's spontaneous, carefree spirit when he was helping Esme with the posters. I bet he would even look good with a little glitter sprinkled on his manly tailored shirt.

J in Oregon
 

Lorenza still using her reign of terror.
 

Thank you, J! Thanks a lot! I've been complaining so much about our little drama that it was a little difficult to get into at first but eventually I was swept away!

"future Hottie Bueno-Para-Nada" yeah, my man was kinda hot, wasn't he?

Mariano was enjoying himself, wasn't he? I just wished he was a cousin or something. . .I know it's only a tv show but the whole brother thing creeps me out. Yet, I speak with fork-ed tongue because my all time favorite novella was a Brazilian one in which a man eventually wins the love of his twin brother's former girl friend. It's all in the way it's done, I guess. LaToodle-oo couldn't carry that writer's dirty. . .socks.

Steve, you are so right. Esme said she thought Lo was on their side. Did I miss something!?

C'mon y'all, let's rip this episode!
 

Lila gosh darn, I giggled all the way through. Are we twins or sumpin?

Paint them word pictures, gurl.

"Oh no, it’s G-spot again......Blanca is as batty as bed bug and doesn’t know who she is. Gisela smiles her approval and Augie looks like somebody really is pulling his short hairs."

Wow, last night was one big pissing contest

Pablo - this fire hydrant is mine

Augie - the hotter they are the crazier and I'm addicted to crazy

Lorenza - no I'm the smelliest turd

Dr. Hottie - blind voyeur

Esmeralda - higher

Garabato - and I'm asking the wizard for a brain

Blanca - at least Augie drives all the way out here to see me everyday

 

tofie!!! Love ya gurl! Thank you! How do you come up with these lists that so accurately brand the character's action for each episode. I wish I were your twin!!

Dr. Hottie - blind voyeur. tofie, I was trying to think of a way to say this but could NOT come up with a word picture but this nails it!! BAM!!

The pool scene had me howling out loud: Dr. Hottie, striped down and in the pool, raising the water level with his salivating!! I can't wait to see what gringo thought of it!

I want a better wordsmith than I to rip into that ridiculous PI scenario. How frickin' stooopid was that? He didn't even look in the g.d. shack! Whaaaat!! Private D*ck, all right, that's what he was.

Like Diva said. .

Free Blanca!!!
 

Only thing popped in my head as the PI made a beeline for his car was screw being stuck & lost out here in the middle of no where with darkness approaching.
 

I hear ya, I'm not letting him off: it would've only taken a second to look in the shack and. . . wait, what am I talking about? That makes too much sense!!
 

Terrific recap thanks Lila. I agree with you on Mariano’s position with Esme. I’m stuck on the fact that they are brothers. But I guess being raised in such a dysfunctional family hasn’t provided him with a moral sense of what is considered “forbidden territory”. I could understand his actions when he was on the fence between bad and good guy. That was his bad guy side. Anyway ....
One small typo I noticed in the sentence you said
“Ines and the two bueno para nadas discuss and plan kidnapping Esme. Esme is the leader”……
It’s obvious that you meant Ines and not Esme.

 

Well they are out there in the middle of frippin' nowhere, Augie hails a cab (maybe he had arranged a pick up), then the private D!ck runs right behind the cab, in full sight, to get to his car! Sheesh! I guess his mission was to follow Augie but still.
Where is Diogenes, if Augie doesn't pay him he said he would release Blanca.

J in Oregon

 

Sue in NY! Thank you. Dang it! It kills the snark when you screw up like that! Thanks for the catch!

Yah, J. Maybe we'll cut them some slack and suppose Augie pre-arranged a pick up. . .does Augie use a cell phone?

And I thought that Diogenes would be the key to Blanca's freedom but now they've thrown Gisela Deville into the mix. This treatment of Blanca is sooo unwarranted.
 

I loved "los tres estooges"!!!

I feel like Garabato is turning good, too.

As someone pointed out (I can't remember who...I'm so sorry) one of the Ines gang is Hot-scar from DQTQTQ. It's wonderful to see him again and I hope I see him in other productions as well. He's cute. I love beards, too...so he looks even cuter to me (despite the grime they put on him.)
 

Hi, Sara! Thanks for joining us on the patio today. . it's early and I know we're not done yet.

That was J in Oregon who noted that hottie! Love to see him in a galan role when he grows up. Was he any good in that other role?
 

It wasn't a huge role and I fear he ended up on the cutting room floor, but yes he was good.

Thanks for remembering who noticed.

J- thank you for your keen observation. I'm so happy to see Hot-scar again.
 

I bout rolled off the couch when Hottie Physical Therapist was massaging Esmeralda by the pool and she was squirming a bit and uncomfortable but they said it shouldn't hurt because she couldn't feel her legs.
 

Oh, and since when can a little shack like that be considered a "wharehouse"? Oy vey!!

Less than 50 episodes: 48
 

Gracias, Lila! I found your recap far more entertaining than the episode.

A fair? What? Why? Because she needs "something to do"? And being a mom isn't enough? Plus going to rehab? Or maybe organizing the search for Fela? How about some glittery "Missing" posters, eh? And looks like she's going to make yet another ridiculous decision tomorrow. Ugh!

I think Lorenza finally realized today just how stupid Pablo is.

The painting is the offering to the Virgen for saving Leti back when she had pneumonia. He's waiting for Esme's sheer force of will to heal the damage and let her walk again before they leave it at the Basilica.

So, the shack is where Augie used to do his "planning" to "bring down" Fernando back in the day. Combine that with the roll of TP and I think it's clear the shack was an outhouse.

I'm so frustrated with all these characters not taking care of important things so they can do ridiculous things to distract themselves instead. They need to be looking for Fela, trying to get the Blank Paper of Evil back, having an actual lawyer look at Pablo's contract. They already have the Foundation for Wayward Street Kids if they need to kill some time.
 

I don't recognize a gang member who's being referred to as
"Hot-scar from DQTQTQ". Por favor jog my memory. What was his role/name in DQTQTQ?
 

I think he was an orderly? He was the guy who ended up with Karina. I keep forgetting to take a good look at him.
 

Thanks, Lila. Your excellent recap was very helpful because I found a lot of the vocab was strange, and the scenes didn't flow for me for some reason.

For me, the over the top strange goings-on detract from the enjoyment of the story.

Lowrenza is such a hollow, poor example of a mother figure, and Augie is nuts, not evil, and I'm glad that Pablo finally figured that out last night, although he will clearly forget it before he gets to the end of the hallway.

The way the scenes where Blanca is being held were staged are so 1st grade. Augie doesn't notice the PI, and a while ago Blanca was able to flag down a taxi cruising at the end of a dirt path in an agricultural area.

The kids are still cute.

David
 

Diva! Thank you! You are soo right! I hadn't even thought of the ridiculousness of the fair with all those grave and pressing matters! This really IS made up each day, isn't it? Oh, the pain! The pain!

Thank you David! You also speak truth: "I'm glad that Pablo finally figured that out last night, although he will clearly forget it before he gets to the end of the hallway." Really. How can it be good for one's career to be typecast as a one brain-celled dolt whose only talent is kissing. . .oh yeah, making cute babies. Oh well.

 

His name was Oscar but he was nicknamed Hot-Scar. The actor's name is Jose Luis Badalt. The gang member's name is Willy.
 

The idea of the fair came about because Esme and Mariano felt bad that there was only enough money in the "scholarship" fund for a few of the wayward ones, especially after they had all agreed to apply. They (Esme & Mariano) then tried to come up with a way to raise money for it, which of course, is to have a kermez (fair) right in the middle of an area where NO ONE has any money!!
 

"is to have a kermez (fair) right in the middle of an area where NO ONE has any money!!"

LMAO!!!

Here's a pic of Hot-scar
http://www2.esmas.com/cea/nuestros-egresados/545754/jose-luis-badalt/
 

Thanks for the wonderful recap!

Am I crazy or was Lorenza the only one who spoke some common sense last night by telling Pablo to take Esme and the kids far away, out of the scope of Gisela.
 

Carvivlie you are absolutely right! Lo wins the prize for being the sole beacon of light in last night's ep. How sad is that?
 

Oh, and thank you dear Carvivlie!
 

Good point, Carvivlie. It's not good when Lorenza starts making sense!
 

Ooh Sara thanks for the link to "Hotscar" pic. I never saw DQTQTQ but I can see how you would remember that face!!!

Yah, too bad nobody is actively looking for El Sil's WIFE. Also didn't El Sil promise God that if He saved Esme from the snakebite, he (El Sil) was going to be the best father in the world? TELL HER ALREADY!!!

J in O
 

West Coast peeps, I just saw a message from Uni on Facebook that we're getting our shows an hour early tonight. I don't know if this is affecting any other time zone, but my TV is showing that La Gata starts at 5pm here (typically it's at 6).
 

OK, I finally took a look...wowza! I wasn't kidding when I called him "Hotscar" in the first place, but with that beard! No wonder I didn't recognize him! Never shave, dude. Never.
 

Agreed. SUPER hot with the beard.
 

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