Caray, Caray!

Thanks, Lila! I feel like you kind of got a dud of an episode. And on Christmas no less! Thanks for soldiering on an giving us this fine recap!
 

Gosh girl, it seems so effortless for you.

"It’s a miracle! Blanca has resurrected from catatonia by the bewitching mix of El Sil’s fake piano-playing, her silent lip sinking and hallucinating an audience!"

Pablo - impotent and having a little pee pee is not the same thing

Blanca - Felli Vanilli

Esmeralda - beads by numbers

Cha Cha - for a while I sold vacuum cleaners door to door

Garabato - errand boy

Mariano - sidekick

Lorenza - I eat Giselas for a snack

Augie - mood swings

Rita - there goes my stripper money

 

Good morning Sara and Tofie! Sara I was glad it was a dud of an episode for because of Christmas so it was a good deal! Thanks for reading it!

And thank you dear tofie! Love the list as usual! Yaay! Who's doing the countown, how much longer?
 

Good Recap!
 

Thanks Steve!
 

Hi, Lila. Loved your complete recap and your snarky comments.

Loved how Lorenza was doing the eye rolling thing. She must have been coached; you couldn't practice that in front of a mirror.

Rita was funny with her reluctant heroism.

I guess Ines isn't going to get the peace and love message any time soon.

Garabato's attitude swings make a weather vane look like the Rock of Gibraltar.

Thanks again, Lila.

David
 

Thank you Lila for your Christmas recap. I don't know why Uni runs the novelas on Christmas but they do. Thank you for your dedication.

Pablo and Mariano go tearing out to the little brick bodega on the prairie. They and the waiting detective burst in and...aw snap! It's empty. Pablo feels impotent.
Loved it Lila.

The list is here today--Thanks Tofie.

How much money is Gata going to make with her bead production?
enough to buy a couple of tacos maybe,

Looks like there is no hope for Ines. What went wrong with her, she was Rita's favorite.

No hope for Lo either. I thought that she was moving over to the good team but no, she hates the babies. You did some good acting last night but if you don't change your attitude towards the babies, well???
the gringo
 

Hi Lila, hope you had a good holiday. Thanks for your dedication. Your recap is fabulous and way more than what you called a "skeletal summary".

 

Lila, thanks so much for the great recap. I missed the last two nights (and apparently an entire kidnapping plot), so catching up with your comments today is very helpful!

Shucks, I thought Lorenza was really getting attached to her little nietos. Guess not. What a shame--a villain with a human frailty is much more interesting than a cartoon-character villain like Augie.

So many loose ends with Virginia, Carlos, Dorila, the Dr formerly known as Hottie, Mariano and more. At some point I'm going to want some answers!!!

J in Oregon
 

Lila, fine recap. My fave: Over at Rita’s shack Cha Cha is delivering a similar sermon. Well, his is more of a satisfying “I told you so”.

Hmmm, Lorenza vs Gisela. Theoretically, this should be a slam dunk for Lorenza since everybody on earth hates Gisela and knows she's BS cray cray. But who knows...

Nice to see Blanca's mind is back. Sanity looks well on her.
 

I don't get why the PI guy don't follow Gisela around all day. Would solve or prevent a lot.

How many more times is someone gonna run out to that cinderblock shack? Knock the damn thing down.
 

Thanks so much, Lila! I saw the second half of this episode and it was entirely too much Rita for my tastes, but I was so happy to see Blanca was in her right mind again. Now, when are they going to tell Esme about her real parents?

The rescue of Low was fab, as well as the conversation between Low and Ughie while while she was zonked out on drugs. I'm not sure those drugs ever really took effect-- her conversations were too lucid. I think she had the situation under control the whole time.
 

Hey David! Thank you so much! That eye rolling thing was freaky, man! And we have quite a few weather vanes on this piece don't we? D

Does Lorenza ever have even one moment of genuine, spontaneous human emotion without plotting, planning and evil ulterior motives?

Well, I guess she wouldn't be Lo!
 

Thanks gringo! Glad you liked it. It IS strange that they run novelas on Christmas, such a revered holiday! Oh well, like I said, made it easy on me.

So gringo, I see you thought she had a change of heart, too. I know she had! This flip-flopping is so annoying! Sheesh!
 

Hi, Foxy! Welcome! Yes I did and I hope you had a wonderful holiday as well. You are so welcome, glad to help keep this ship afloat!

:D Lila
 

Hi J! You are welcome and thank you! Yah, the whole Lorenza hating the baby things made me wonder if I had missed some episodes! Speaking of cartoonish, she was really cartoonish in this episode and yesterday with her evil thought bubbles. I don't believe her story about Virginia for a minute!

And yes, enough loose ends to make another novela! Did you notice Dr. Hottie popped in and never appeared again! Sloppy editing!
 

Thank you Niecie! I just want somebody to put a permanent hurting on Gisela. She gets away with everything because everybody is so hopelessly inept!

Yes, Blanca wears sanity well. Let's hope they keep her that way!
 

tofie, you're right, it would close a lot of cold cases and prevent a lot of havoc.

Cinder block shack, land fill, cheapest damned set in novela history, ain't it?
 

You are welcome, Vivi! There have been so many missed opportunities to tell Esme the truth, so many times when it would have made total sense and been a real healing and bonding gesture! I guess that's the problem "it would have made total sense." Sheesh!

Interesting thought about Lo being in control the whole time! I think you could be right and you should take credit for that, Vivi. I'm sure the "writers" could've never thought of it!
 

Thank you, Lila! Total dud episode...total gem of a recap! I particularly liked "little brick bodega on the prairie" :D I thought the recap title might have something to do with this show needing a little something-something to get its juices flowing again.

I think the "Blanca gets her memory back" scene was set in the same room where Pablo had one of his poetry classes. It's a weird room/set...nice cushy chairs (the same ones they have in the courtroom?) a small stage...maybe it's usually more of a nice bar-type set and they just took out all the tables and arranged the chairs in rows. I had always pictured Blanca as singing in huge arenas. Oh well. Sil's bad fake piano playing was painful! Had they not selected the music yet? He looked like he was trying to fake playing ragtime, not "generic ballad."

I smell editing! Hot Doc shows up for...absolutely nothing! Keep at it, Uni! Death to filler!

38 or fewer episodes to go!
 

El Sil's piano playing was miraculous, treble notes playing while tickling the base end of the ivories. That was quite a trick. I had played the piano for a number of years and never mastered that one.

I have been a Daniel A. fan for years, but after this mess am really disappointed. I am switching over to the hawt padre. I hope to see him again, perhaps at the wedding?

Lila. thanks for the great recap!!
 

Thanks, Diva! Yeah. It was hard to name this sucka. 38 or fewer to go. There's no telling what they're going to do. Just. do. not. hurt. the. babies!!!
 

You are welcome, emeraldrose! I don't know a lot about the world of novelas but it seems like a producer "buys" a stable of actors and have them under contract so they pretty much get stuck in roles in productions like this schmucked-up thing. Is that how it happens?