Caray, Caray!

Hello Patio Pals! Sorry this is later than usual and more disjointed than usual. My viewing got interrupted several times and my head was still in the Pasión y Poder universe.

Was it just me or was that dinner boring? After seeing PyP's Franco crawling over a boardroom table, throwing water bottles at people and trying to get to his father to, no doubt strangle him, before getting punched by his half-brother, I kept imagining Kracy crashing that romantic dinner and yelling Nooooo! in slow motion! I fantasized that she would land on that table, flatten the cake, grab Esperanza by the hair and throw Ricardo in that unidentified body of water! That would have definitely spiced up things! I don't want cute anymore! I want ratchet mess! :D

Oh, and I'm so over that annoying llorona from the snivelling acting school of Victoria "The Crier" Ruffo. Awful actress with an awful-er storyline! ¡Ay, Diosito santo! Not another Princess Confundida! Kristel had better cut that crapola out and fast! I just went through several months of PyP’s Julia being confundida about everything, down to her choice of breakfast cereal. I can't deal with this here too! I don't have my sexy beast Eladio to keep me hooked to the messiness of an indecisive proTontanista!

Enjoy the recap and the discussion! Thank you for stopping by! :)

 

For those who didn't watch PyP and who can't visualize what I'm talking about, here is the scene in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Aee7iFGCfw Just a little background: Franco (Oh you'll know who he is!) embezzles money from his father's company and buys up actions under made-up company names to stage a hostile takeover. He becomes the owner of the company for exactly 24 hours before his family and scorned wife thwart his plans and have him fired. The guy goes bonkers. Ratchet drama and hilarity ensures! :D
 

Thanks, Nandicta, for your very entertaining recap. What fun! Best idea: Vicente and Ara teaming up. Funniest: "Pato's estalkerrr is estalkin' ". What fun! The "romantic" dinner not so much. PyP must have been !

Vicente achieved a whole new level of crazy (he is up there already having tried to punch Pato out) trying to break into her house.

Tracy and Anastasia were perfect together. They should team up and do something illegal like being grifters.

At least Tracy was alert enough to ask who "Max" was overhearing Shira on the phone.

I felt sorry for Kristel having to face the whole Gallo clan and not being able to talk to Erasmo alone. Too much togetherness for me. Glad she called Pedro to make him suffer along with her.

Pato should have been down at the local police station herself filing a complaint on Vicente not depending on Luca to do it.

Enough fiddling around, it is time for Margarita to call the cops and gave Silvana forcibly removed.


 

Thank you Nandicta. Poking my head in and read ya'lls recaps though I just cannot get in a grove with this show.

"He just made her work really hard, solving clues and whatnot to earn a meal served by her own children!"

In my top ten things that make me spit fire and my beautiful brown eyes pop out of socket is watching a woman with no self worth starving for machoman crumbs. I don't know what makes me more angry. The woman unaware of her humiliation or the machoman secure in his right to be a penishead.

Kristel is throwing a pity party and I hope no one shows.

 

Nandicta, clever, well written and extremely funny! Vocabulary was stellar as always.

"Kracy and Ernesto have a very vocal session of desk-boinking that scandalizes Anastasia, who can hear their carnal howls from the hall) (Not much “rattles” Anastasia, does it? Sorry, couldn’t help myself); "I defo spotted a little tongue slippage there! Ooooh Cristián, you cheeky devil you!", "Back at the encounter of spite, scorned love and fake blondness" and "The negligent mother berates the nanny for her negligence" were all fantastic.

Yes Nandicta, I was bored by the fantasy dinner. I have to say Ricky looked very handsome in his uniform and thought it was a nice touch. tofie, it wasn't romantic at all, was it? It was ruined for me by the appearance of that "stupid love vault". Sigh. And Espe's physical motions were awkward, doing a very strange hop/skip at one point. Please don't ruin this character writers!

Jarifa, I am not a Kristel fan but agree that she should have been able to speak with Erasmo alone. Kiko looked as though he might have a little pity for her but his sister was fiery and unforgiving. Kristel needs to make up her mind between the boy and the man. Yup, that's a tough choice. Not.

I also agreed with your "Tracy and Anastasia were perfect together. They should team up and do something illegal like being grifters". I thought their conversation was more intriguing than most other scenes last night.

Espe hasn't lost her intuition feeling something is up with the nanny. Although, does anyone else think it may be fueled by jealousy somewhat? She was obviously very comfortable (and affectionate) with the children and Espe did not like that!

I like the idea of Vivi and Mario, but perhaps as good friends...

Nandicta, I so enjoyed your mentioning Franco's (from PyP) "table crawl". Jennifer Beals' table pawing dance audition in Flashdance had nothing on him did it?

This was great!

Diana






 

Diana, interesting comment about jealousy coming into play with Esperanza and the kids. Sure seems to be a part of that picture. I would love for Mario to end up with Viviana with him out of the construction company living on Ernesto's dime through her divorce settlement.
 

I hated the in my face product placement but what else can I expect from Osorio, right? I should be used to it, anyway, I just don't understand why Esperanza is working at a school and not in a Subway Restaurant making sandwiches, like those people from Avon, La costeña or Nescafé.

OK, so Estrella has no tolerance for Kristel but she herself can forgive and forgive and forgive Adrián every time he messes up?

I wish I could verify if those four medals Tricky was wearing are real and if he had the cassette tape when he served in Irak or Afganistán. I am so glad that tape survided the crossing of the desert, the prison time, the war and the training at Quantico without getting melt or sticky or magnetized, LOL!!

Thanks for the recap, way better than the actual episode.
 

Funny but Ricardo still has not fully accounted for all of the twenty years he was AWOL from Esperanza. Still waiting. . . .
 

"OK, so Estrella has no tolerance for Kristel but she herself can forgive and forgive and forgive Adrián every time he messes up?" You are so right Pablo! While I appreciated her looking out for Erasmo, she was a little too unforgiving for my taste. And it didn't occur to me that the pot was calling the kettle...as you stated perfectly.

Jarifa, do you think the 20 year absence explanation will be revealed in the finale? ;)

Diana
 

Maybe, if ever. : (
 

Hellooow Amigooowz! Hope you're enjoying your Sunday. Many thanks for your kind words and witty comments, you are the only thing that makes watching this train wreck bearable. I read that Marco Méndez, Agustín/Auggie/Cookie/Sexy Panda from PyP has joined the cast of SdA. At this rate, "Sueño de Amor" will be renamed "Pesadilla (nightmare) de Amor". Instead of fixing the entangled mess of half-plots and incoherences going in every which way, Osorio is adding more characters and more half-cooked plots. I can't remember if it was Julia or Pablo who said this, but it seems like Osorio is trying to throw every single possible plot and PSA into SdA. He's dumping everything that crosses his shallow brain on the viewers: "Here! Rummage through this and see if you can find something to your liking!"

--Jarifa: Tracy and Anastasia would be perfect to wreak havoc if we actually cared about the lives in which they will be wreaking havoc. PatoLuca and EspeRic are being deliberately ruined by the abysmal writing.

And you're absolutely right, both Pato and Margarita should call the police. Freaking out and shaking one's fist in the air is no longer enough at this point.

-- Tofie: "(...) watching a woman with no self worth starving for machoman crumbs" is precisely the thing that annoyed me about that half-arsed non-proposal date. You'd think that after waiting for Tricky Ricky's dodgy lying behind for 20 years, accepting his lame excuses for abandoning her, babysitting his kids for free, putting up with his ex-wife's humiliations and going through a cancer scare, the least he could do is offer her a decent blinger and asks her to marry him. Hasn't he told everyone and their mother that he loved Esperanza all his life and that he can't wait to be with her? What the heck is he waiting for? Another 20-year-long accidental or forced disappearance?

 

-- Diana: I completely agree with you and Jarifa, the little rooster kids had no business being there during that grown-up conversation and they had no right to speak to Kristel that way. I can't stand that sniveling Barbie but ganging up on her like that was uncool. "Kristel needs to make up her mind between the boy and the man. Yup, that's a tough choice. Not." And this is another one of the many many many reasons I can't stand this character or the "actress" playing her. She's pretty but, for an actress, pretty doesn't cut it if you can't act your way out of a box of cereal.

As for Espe, I'm afraid that the writers are dumbing her down more and more, with every passing episode. Her intuition about Shira did seem to be fueled by jealousy because Esperanza didn't spend more than 30 seconds with that gal to be able to sense anything about her. All she saw was an attractive young nanny who had an excellent rapport with Ricardo's kids and spent an awful lot of time at Ricardo's house.

I'm afraid the reason for Ricardo's absence has been explained and accepted by Esperanza. The lame revelation was sealed with that uncomfortable and cruel conversation where Pedro was expected to apologize because his deceased father lied to Rico Suave thus crushing EspeRic's Dream of Love.

Thanks for mentioning Jennifer Beals' table audition. It inspired a hilarious mental image of Danilo Carrera (PyP's Franco) rehearsing that dance routine for his castmates!

-- Pablo: You raised a very interesting question about Estrella's readiness to scratch Kristel's eyes out for a kiss when she is always in the best disposition to forgive her own cheating boyfriend. The answer is very simple: Estrella is a doormat. A very pretty doormat but a doormat nonetheless!

Tricky Ricky's medals looked fake to me. Even the uniform didn't seem like a genuine one. It didn't fit the actor properly; it's as if it had been tailored in haste. That cassette accompanying him everywhere bit is clearly a fib. I bet the tape was forgotten at the bottom of some drawer at his parents' house in Mexico for the past 20 years! By the way, do we know whether he has family in Mexico still? Didn't he cross the border to help his father and family out?


 

I haven't heard anything about no Ricardo's relatives, but I think he decided to cross the river for Esperanza, not for his parents. At this point, who cares why the chicken crossed the road, right?

Osorio is justifying the Marjorie switcheroo saying that now that Esperanza and Ricardo had found each other after 20 years and are very in love, the story need a triangle to spice things up. Yeah right! If he is adding more ad more characters that were not there in the original idea/or script, is not because the story needs them, is because he needs to improve the rating. OK. Let's say we believe that Marjorie is showing up and Ricardo will doubt if the ''love of his life'' that he waited 20 years to be reunited with is still strong? Really?

How can a man who has spent 20 years dreaming of love with the woman of his life can suddenly doubt when another woman shows up? And who is Marco Méndez be after? Pato?

I agree with the idea that more characters won't fix anything when the story is all over (no tiene ni pies ni cabeza).

He said that this is a comedy with some thriller and a lot of action (!?) and that is meant to be enjoyed by kids, teens, adults and old people like me, but I am not interested a bit.

Every time something happen, like when Esperanza was kidnapped, I can not help but think of PEAM and say, I already saw this. It is like he was watching PEAM and thinking a way to remake it, only with all the scenes mixed up so we didn't suspect. This is like the shiny mirrors all over again. He is trying to distract us from the truly awful mess he and the other 6 writers (among them one telenovela critic and a youtuber) are sticking their spoon in. If its hard to write something good, imagine when ''todo mundo mete su cuchara''.

El que mucho abarca poco aprieta...