Thursday, July 07, 2016
Yago, #31, Thursday 7/7/16: Buried Hopes
Lucio wanted everything that was Omar's. Well, it's happening now. Not only did he get Omar's girl, Omar's son, and Omar's family - he also got Sara's betrayal and a prison sentence. How sweet! Will he also die in a prison riot? Or will he be befriended by a helpful mobster who's willing to leverage Lucio's rage for his own purposes? I can't wait to find out!
It must be the next day, because Sara is wearing a different dress. Lucio's been sentenced to six years and a fine of 120 "salarios" for his fraud. I don't know how much a "salario" is, but I'll bet that 120 of them add up to more than a slap on the wrist. He stares at Sara in disbelief as he's marched out to the waiting van. She stares right back at him.
As the prison guards shove him around, Lucio reflects that this is especially tough coming from the person to whom he's dedicated the best years of his life. The other inmates welcome him with a ticker-tape parade (okay, a shower of trash) as he's brought to his cell. Lucio muses that betrayal has always been at his side; it has the face of an angel, and the name of a woman. He adds, somewhat redundantly, that its name is Sara. Weeping, Lucio tears Sara's visage off of the family photo he was allowed to keep.
On the front steps of the courthouse, Jonas chews Sara out for being a traitor and asks why she did this to Lucio as well as Omar. "Your child will grow up without a father because of you!" he accuses. Melina reminds him that Matias is waiting. Jonas dreads having to give him the bad news. Sara tells Melina she doesn't blame them for hating her, but to tell Matias that she loves him.
Fidel, who is wearing another purplish jacket today, is telling someone on the phone to treat his friend extra-specially well. Selma wants to celebrate their victory.
Sara wants to see Ambar, and she doesn't want Yago to go with her. (Yet again she'll have a chance to tell Ambar a highly edited version of the real story.) That leaves Yago alone with Abel, who thanks Yago for warning him about the fraud. Abel then warns Yago about Sara, who betrayed the father of her own child. Yago retorts that Lucio had betrayed her and mistreated her, and wasn't able to protect her or her child. Abel allows that perhaps Lucio and Sara are equally bad, but Ambar doesn't deserve what's going on behind her back. Yago says Ambar knows everything now. She caught them. He asks Abel to find her. Abel says that he himself is now among those that Ambar feels has deceived her.
Melina, Jonas, and Bruno debate what to tell Matias.
Teo asks Yago if Abel will the next revenge target. He tries to convince Yago that Abel is no worse a person than Teo. Yes, he'll have to pay, but he's not as bad as Lucio and Sara. He tried to hang himself. He's the best of the three.
Fidel, Selma, and Katia greet Yago with a little champagne reception. (Interesting, Katia is wearing yesterday's clothes. Either that or Sara changed her own dress at the courthouse. I should ignore these things.) Fidel wants to know if Yago has figured out what he's going to do to Abel. Will he use the video of the guard's murder? Yago says he wants to get close to Lucio and find out why he betrayed Omar, and then gain Abel's trust to betray him the way Abel betrayed Omar.
Lucio asks a guard how much it will cost him to get a better cell. The guard says that someone has already arranged other accommodations for him. Yes, it's a smaller, darker, ickier cell and he receives a special beatdown from three guards. "Fidel says hi," one of them says in farewell. Lucio spits up blood and bangs on the locked door, "don't leave me here!"
At the victory celebration, Katia notices that Yago has something on his mind. He tells her about Ambar. Katia reminds him that he knew from the beginning that there would be "collateral damages." Yago's just sorry he involved her. Katia says he actually did Ambar a favor by showing her what kind of vermin her family are.
Julia's been listening on her headphones to that recording of Selma singing. Camilo asks if she'd like to see a movie - her kind of movie. Julia's not up to it.
Jonas finds Bruno crying. Damian peeps at the door (or window) as Bruno tells Jonas that he hasn't seen Alejandra in two days.
Sara leaves a voicemail for Ambar. She notices that Ambar has left her medications behind.
At the victory party, everyone makes a big fuss about Selma's singing voice. Fidel pulls Yago aside and shows him a laptop which is tuned to the Lucio Channel. "Watch and enjoy," Fidel says, as a ragged-looking Lucio is splashed with water and taunted. Lucio gasps, shivers, and begins flipping out when he thinks he sees Omar's name scratched into the wall. Fidel smiles, pleased with himself. Yago's face is inscrutable as usual.
At bedtime, Jonas tells Melina he doesn't want to let Lucio down the way he did Omar. He wants his wife and his son to know that they can depend on him no matter what.
Ambar looks terrible. She's at the airport, booking a flight to wherever's available. (Los Angeles.) Abel calls, frantic, but she hangs up on him.
Sara whines to Yago that she betrays everyone. Not just Lucio, but Matias and Ambar too. Ambar shouldn't be without her medicine for even a day. If she dies, Sara will never forgive herself. (But neither will she change her ways, I'm sure.) Yago says that Ambar is with Abel.
Based on the background noise in their brief phone call, Abel has tracked Ambar to the airport. She's not happy to see him and says she just wants to disappear, but she faints. He takes her home to his very loud-looking apartment. At last, she is in his bed! Sort of. He informs Sara but asks her not to come, so that Ambar can rest (if the screeching red decor doesn't give her nightmares). He tells Ambar he's already ordered all of her prescriptions and they'll be coming soon, but she doesn't want any.
Ambar tells Abel about Sara and Yago and asks if Abel knew. Abel starts to say no, then asks if she'd like him to bust that guy's face. She says that wouldn't solve anything. The two people she cared about most betrayed her. There's nothing left to do. But Abel says she should care for her health and her life rather than for Sara and Yago. For herself, for Abel. (He tries to face-paw her, but she sort of flinches at his hand.)
Lucio tells Mauricio, his lawyer, that the guards are on Fidel Yampolski's payroll. He's begging to be transferred to another prison. Mauricio says it's difficult. That's not what Lucio wants to hear.
Damian is pestering Tomas Vargas again. They want Dam to investigate Yago, but Yago is investigating him. Tom doesn't want to hear about Dam's personal problems and if he shows up without an appointment again, Yago will be the least of his problems!
Julia has time-traveled back to the 1980's to a music store that sells vinyl. (Maybe that explains how she has a cassette player in her bedroom.) She must be a regular there, because the guy knows her. Wasn't he Ignacio in Hotel? She plays Selma's song for him. He recognizes both the song and the singer! It's Selma! Some say she killed herself because she wasn't famous, and other people say she married a millionaire in Dubai, but in any case here's an LP record that she made and some people say she still sings at some piano bar in the city.
Melina and Jonas have told Mati that his father's in jail. Mati's sure he did nothing wrong. Jonas agrees. Sometimes - rather often - judges can make mistakes, Jonas says. Melina says Lucio will appeal and ask for another trial. (Mati thinks it sounds like having to repeat a year in school.) Mati wants some time to himself to think. Melina decides to go to church. Jonas offers to go with, but she says no.
Damian is out in a field, digging. It's a bit late in the season to be planting corn...
Ambar is still in bed. She hasn't eaten anything. She doesn't want to see Sara. Abel tells Sara to leave her alone and don't tell her lies. She'll just upset Ambar. Sara gives up and asks Abel to make sure Ambar takes her medicine.
At church, Melina wants Yago to tell her how he got Lucio to go to prison. "You don't want to know," he says. Lucio is now suffering the way Omar suffered. "You're not Omar," she observes. She warns that this revenge will consume him and all the innocents around him, including his own son. Yago says he'll make it up to Mati when all of this is over. "If there's any life left in your heart," Melina says. She is surprised to hear that Sara helped Yago set Lucio up. He shouldn't have trusted her, Melina says, but Yago says he's not trusting her, only using her. And she'll pay too when her time comes.
Yago rises to leave. "Omar?" Melina queries. Yago hesitates. "I just wanted to know if you recognized your own name," Melina says. "There's hope."
Selma goes out for a walk. Fidel calls someone and says "Respond with your life." What?
Sara tries to visit Mati. He doesn't want to see her. He already knows that she testified against Lucio in court - it was on the news. (So much for the debate over how much to tell him! Kids are neither stupid nor oblivious!) "I'm not an idiot! Do you seriously think that I don't realize that my father is much better than you? I will never forgive you! NEVER!!!" (stomping up the stairs)
Sara goes home to Yago and asks for the strongest hooch he's got. She's feeling sorry for herself because everyone hates her. "What kind of person am I?" she asks rhetorically. "I disgust myself!" (But you still don't stop, Sara. That's the thing. You don't stop.) "Why did we do this? I am paying dearly!" (And there we have it. Not remorse for what she's done to others, but regret for how it makes her feel.)
Yago tries to talk her down, reminding her that they are adults and that Mati will be better off without Lucio. Sara disagrees. Lucio is a great father for Mati, and Ambar will never forgive her. She's losing everyone and everything. Sara needs to be alone.
Julia goes to a piano bar. The singer is introduced as Rita Somethingorother, but it's Selma. She must really love that song, because she's singing it again. Julia's face is hard to describe as she realizes that this might be her long-lost mother.
While Sara sulks in another room, Yago gets a call from an unidentified caller (Damian) asking if he wants to know where Alejandra is.
Melina and Bruno discuss Matias. Bruno knows what the boy is going through. Then Bruno gets a call from an unidentified caller (Damian) saying "I've got something that might interest you." Bruno gets up hastily and says he's going out for a coffee. Damian says it's about "your Alejandra."
After Selma finishes her set, Julia introduces herself. Selma is impactada.
Yago goes out to the field, where Alejandra rests in her freshly dug-up shallow grave. Bruno arrives soon after and momentarily jumps to the wrong conclusion, then realizes that it's not what it looks like. (That is, Yago didn't kill her five minutes ago.)
And on that strange note, the episode ends.
It must be the next day, because Sara is wearing a different dress. Lucio's been sentenced to six years and a fine of 120 "salarios" for his fraud. I don't know how much a "salario" is, but I'll bet that 120 of them add up to more than a slap on the wrist. He stares at Sara in disbelief as he's marched out to the waiting van. She stares right back at him.
As the prison guards shove him around, Lucio reflects that this is especially tough coming from the person to whom he's dedicated the best years of his life. The other inmates welcome him with a ticker-tape parade (okay, a shower of trash) as he's brought to his cell. Lucio muses that betrayal has always been at his side; it has the face of an angel, and the name of a woman. He adds, somewhat redundantly, that its name is Sara. Weeping, Lucio tears Sara's visage off of the family photo he was allowed to keep.
On the front steps of the courthouse, Jonas chews Sara out for being a traitor and asks why she did this to Lucio as well as Omar. "Your child will grow up without a father because of you!" he accuses. Melina reminds him that Matias is waiting. Jonas dreads having to give him the bad news. Sara tells Melina she doesn't blame them for hating her, but to tell Matias that she loves him.
Fidel, who is wearing another purplish jacket today, is telling someone on the phone to treat his friend extra-specially well. Selma wants to celebrate their victory.
Sara wants to see Ambar, and she doesn't want Yago to go with her. (Yet again she'll have a chance to tell Ambar a highly edited version of the real story.) That leaves Yago alone with Abel, who thanks Yago for warning him about the fraud. Abel then warns Yago about Sara, who betrayed the father of her own child. Yago retorts that Lucio had betrayed her and mistreated her, and wasn't able to protect her or her child. Abel allows that perhaps Lucio and Sara are equally bad, but Ambar doesn't deserve what's going on behind her back. Yago says Ambar knows everything now. She caught them. He asks Abel to find her. Abel says that he himself is now among those that Ambar feels has deceived her.
Melina, Jonas, and Bruno debate what to tell Matias.
Teo asks Yago if Abel will the next revenge target. He tries to convince Yago that Abel is no worse a person than Teo. Yes, he'll have to pay, but he's not as bad as Lucio and Sara. He tried to hang himself. He's the best of the three.
Fidel, Selma, and Katia greet Yago with a little champagne reception. (Interesting, Katia is wearing yesterday's clothes. Either that or Sara changed her own dress at the courthouse. I should ignore these things.) Fidel wants to know if Yago has figured out what he's going to do to Abel. Will he use the video of the guard's murder? Yago says he wants to get close to Lucio and find out why he betrayed Omar, and then gain Abel's trust to betray him the way Abel betrayed Omar.
Lucio asks a guard how much it will cost him to get a better cell. The guard says that someone has already arranged other accommodations for him. Yes, it's a smaller, darker, ickier cell and he receives a special beatdown from three guards. "Fidel says hi," one of them says in farewell. Lucio spits up blood and bangs on the locked door, "don't leave me here!"
At the victory celebration, Katia notices that Yago has something on his mind. He tells her about Ambar. Katia reminds him that he knew from the beginning that there would be "collateral damages." Yago's just sorry he involved her. Katia says he actually did Ambar a favor by showing her what kind of vermin her family are.
Julia's been listening on her headphones to that recording of Selma singing. Camilo asks if she'd like to see a movie - her kind of movie. Julia's not up to it.
Jonas finds Bruno crying. Damian peeps at the door (or window) as Bruno tells Jonas that he hasn't seen Alejandra in two days.
Sara leaves a voicemail for Ambar. She notices that Ambar has left her medications behind.
At the victory party, everyone makes a big fuss about Selma's singing voice. Fidel pulls Yago aside and shows him a laptop which is tuned to the Lucio Channel. "Watch and enjoy," Fidel says, as a ragged-looking Lucio is splashed with water and taunted. Lucio gasps, shivers, and begins flipping out when he thinks he sees Omar's name scratched into the wall. Fidel smiles, pleased with himself. Yago's face is inscrutable as usual.
At bedtime, Jonas tells Melina he doesn't want to let Lucio down the way he did Omar. He wants his wife and his son to know that they can depend on him no matter what.
Ambar looks terrible. She's at the airport, booking a flight to wherever's available. (Los Angeles.) Abel calls, frantic, but she hangs up on him.
Sara whines to Yago that she betrays everyone. Not just Lucio, but Matias and Ambar too. Ambar shouldn't be without her medicine for even a day. If she dies, Sara will never forgive herself. (But neither will she change her ways, I'm sure.) Yago says that Ambar is with Abel.
Based on the background noise in their brief phone call, Abel has tracked Ambar to the airport. She's not happy to see him and says she just wants to disappear, but she faints. He takes her home to his very loud-looking apartment. At last, she is in his bed! Sort of. He informs Sara but asks her not to come, so that Ambar can rest (if the screeching red decor doesn't give her nightmares). He tells Ambar he's already ordered all of her prescriptions and they'll be coming soon, but she doesn't want any.
Ambar tells Abel about Sara and Yago and asks if Abel knew. Abel starts to say no, then asks if she'd like him to bust that guy's face. She says that wouldn't solve anything. The two people she cared about most betrayed her. There's nothing left to do. But Abel says she should care for her health and her life rather than for Sara and Yago. For herself, for Abel. (He tries to face-paw her, but she sort of flinches at his hand.)
Lucio tells Mauricio, his lawyer, that the guards are on Fidel Yampolski's payroll. He's begging to be transferred to another prison. Mauricio says it's difficult. That's not what Lucio wants to hear.
Damian is pestering Tomas Vargas again. They want Dam to investigate Yago, but Yago is investigating him. Tom doesn't want to hear about Dam's personal problems and if he shows up without an appointment again, Yago will be the least of his problems!
Julia has time-traveled back to the 1980's to a music store that sells vinyl. (Maybe that explains how she has a cassette player in her bedroom.) She must be a regular there, because the guy knows her. Wasn't he Ignacio in Hotel? She plays Selma's song for him. He recognizes both the song and the singer! It's Selma! Some say she killed herself because she wasn't famous, and other people say she married a millionaire in Dubai, but in any case here's an LP record that she made and some people say she still sings at some piano bar in the city.
Melina and Jonas have told Mati that his father's in jail. Mati's sure he did nothing wrong. Jonas agrees. Sometimes - rather often - judges can make mistakes, Jonas says. Melina says Lucio will appeal and ask for another trial. (Mati thinks it sounds like having to repeat a year in school.) Mati wants some time to himself to think. Melina decides to go to church. Jonas offers to go with, but she says no.
Damian is out in a field, digging. It's a bit late in the season to be planting corn...
Ambar is still in bed. She hasn't eaten anything. She doesn't want to see Sara. Abel tells Sara to leave her alone and don't tell her lies. She'll just upset Ambar. Sara gives up and asks Abel to make sure Ambar takes her medicine.
At church, Melina wants Yago to tell her how he got Lucio to go to prison. "You don't want to know," he says. Lucio is now suffering the way Omar suffered. "You're not Omar," she observes. She warns that this revenge will consume him and all the innocents around him, including his own son. Yago says he'll make it up to Mati when all of this is over. "If there's any life left in your heart," Melina says. She is surprised to hear that Sara helped Yago set Lucio up. He shouldn't have trusted her, Melina says, but Yago says he's not trusting her, only using her. And she'll pay too when her time comes.
Yago rises to leave. "Omar?" Melina queries. Yago hesitates. "I just wanted to know if you recognized your own name," Melina says. "There's hope."
Selma goes out for a walk. Fidel calls someone and says "Respond with your life." What?
Sara tries to visit Mati. He doesn't want to see her. He already knows that she testified against Lucio in court - it was on the news. (So much for the debate over how much to tell him! Kids are neither stupid nor oblivious!) "I'm not an idiot! Do you seriously think that I don't realize that my father is much better than you? I will never forgive you! NEVER!!!" (stomping up the stairs)
Sara goes home to Yago and asks for the strongest hooch he's got. She's feeling sorry for herself because everyone hates her. "What kind of person am I?" she asks rhetorically. "I disgust myself!" (But you still don't stop, Sara. That's the thing. You don't stop.) "Why did we do this? I am paying dearly!" (And there we have it. Not remorse for what she's done to others, but regret for how it makes her feel.)
Yago tries to talk her down, reminding her that they are adults and that Mati will be better off without Lucio. Sara disagrees. Lucio is a great father for Mati, and Ambar will never forgive her. She's losing everyone and everything. Sara needs to be alone.
Julia goes to a piano bar. The singer is introduced as Rita Somethingorother, but it's Selma. She must really love that song, because she's singing it again. Julia's face is hard to describe as she realizes that this might be her long-lost mother.
While Sara sulks in another room, Yago gets a call from an unidentified caller (Damian) asking if he wants to know where Alejandra is.
Melina and Bruno discuss Matias. Bruno knows what the boy is going through. Then Bruno gets a call from an unidentified caller (Damian) saying "I've got something that might interest you." Bruno gets up hastily and says he's going out for a coffee. Damian says it's about "your Alejandra."
After Selma finishes her set, Julia introduces herself. Selma is impactada.
Yago goes out to the field, where Alejandra rests in her freshly dug-up shallow grave. Bruno arrives soon after and momentarily jumps to the wrong conclusion, then realizes that it's not what it looks like. (That is, Yago didn't kill her five minutes ago.)
And on that strange note, the episode ends.
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The ending was so depressing that I almost want to stop watching. I can't see where any joy will come from. Even seeing Lucio in jail wasn't very satisfying. Watching him get beat up and then having Fidel be the one that set it up made me wonder if he was responsible for Omar's too. Maybe he found out the truth later and that's why he has done so much to help hm.
Dammit! Just watched. There goes my hope for Ale. As many people have said about Game of Thrones...if you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention. :(
Thanks so much, Julie. This was perfect. I'm still so upset, but intrigued. These writers don't give a flip about happy endings, and so I'm fascinated to see how this will wrap up. It's a complete mystery. Well, we do know there will be lots of tears.
Love your assessment of Sara. Yeah, it's all about how getting rejected by Mati and Ambar makes HER feel. Tough! I also did not feel bad at all for Lucio. He's suffering a fraction of what Omar suffered, and he was innocent. However, it looks like Yago is not finding revenge as sweet as he thought. Instead, it's a bitter pill.
Fidel told his guards to look after Selma with their life. He pretends that he doesn't know her "walks" are to go sing at that cafe, but he sends guards to follow her whenever she goes.
Love your assessment of Sara. Yeah, it's all about how getting rejected by Mati and Ambar makes HER feel. Tough! I also did not feel bad at all for Lucio. He's suffering a fraction of what Omar suffered, and he was innocent. However, it looks like Yago is not finding revenge as sweet as he thought. Instead, it's a bitter pill.
Fidel told his guards to look after Selma with their life. He pretends that he doesn't know her "walks" are to go sing at that cafe, but he sends guards to follow her whenever she goes.
Ah. Thanks Vivi. I figured that Selma couldn't keep her night job a secret from Fidel.
For me, it was enough to see Lucio go to jail. I felt like the beating was gross overkill, whether he deserved it or not. Admittedly, though, I'm not Yago. Nor Omar. But I don't think Yago asked Fidel to arrange that, and I doubt that he would have.
I couldn't tell if "Omar" was really written on the cell wall or not, but if it was, it certainly wasn't glowing. It looks like Lucio might be losing his mind. Abel's cracked a couple of times, too. But Sara is still too self-absorbed to experience any "symptoms" yet other than grief over how she's being inconvenienced.
I'm not sure what kind of fate I want for Sara. I think I'd like to see her die in the process of saving Mati's life (her first and last unselfish act) - and maybe her heart (if she has one) can be transplanted to make Ambar well.
For me, it was enough to see Lucio go to jail. I felt like the beating was gross overkill, whether he deserved it or not. Admittedly, though, I'm not Yago. Nor Omar. But I don't think Yago asked Fidel to arrange that, and I doubt that he would have.
I couldn't tell if "Omar" was really written on the cell wall or not, but if it was, it certainly wasn't glowing. It looks like Lucio might be losing his mind. Abel's cracked a couple of times, too. But Sara is still too self-absorbed to experience any "symptoms" yet other than grief over how she's being inconvenienced.
I'm not sure what kind of fate I want for Sara. I think I'd like to see her die in the process of saving Mati's life (her first and last unselfish act) - and maybe her heart (if she has one) can be transplanted to make Ambar well.
And I did feel quite sorry for Ambar because she had to stay at Abel's place. The decor is apt to sap all of her remaining strength. Julia is the only real friend Ambar has, but unfortunately her father is a murdering lunatic. If Ambar survives all of this, she and Julia can compare notes on what it's like to be disappointed by family.
Thank you Julie.
I don't want any opportunity of redemption for Sara nor do I want one for Yago. They have each other, that's all the reward they get.
Just sick about Alejandra
I don't want any opportunity of redemption for Sara nor do I want one for Yago. They have each other, that's all the reward they get.
Just sick about Alejandra
Now that Sara has betrayed him, I don't see Lucio keeping quiet about Sara's role or Damian's role if Yago got the video of him and Abel robbing the casino to the authorities. I get that he wants to hear Lucio and Abel say why they did it, but does it matter anymore?
I think Yago desperately wants Lucio and Abel to say it was their idea, Sara had little to do with the betrayal except for the court testimony and that was done under duress.
I guess it matters to Yago, but I don't think he will be as satisfied with their explanations as he thinks he will.
And I suspect that Yago would stop all of this if they would turn themselves in and confess to their crimes. I don't think that would satisfy someone like Fidel, who truly has a sadistic streak. And I don't think it will happen, either, because even Abel (who actually did want to turn himself in at one point) decided there was no point once Omar had "died." (Never mind the suffering and humiliation of Omar's family, I guess.)
One thing I will say for Sara. Before Damian came back into her life, she seemed prepared to live an honest life with Omar on the straight and narrow. So we can't say that she's incapable of doing it. Damian manipulated her, and she let him. Once that happened, she seemed to resign herself to a life of dishonesty. She says things that sound like expressions of guilt, but most people deal with guilt by giving money to charity, working in a soup kitchen, making up for their misdeeds, and trying to be a better person. (Or wearing a barbed wire belt and whipping themselves like the butler in Hotel.) She's gone in completely the opposite direction and then she torments herself over having to pay the consequences. "I'm paying for what I did." Yeah, Sara, but you keep on doing it, so you're going to keep on paying. It's a bizarre form of self-punishment when you continue to bring misery on yourself by harming others.
I wonder if we will ever see Damian's backstory. I bet there are some real horrors there. Damian doesn't seem to torment himself over anything, but it is weird how he keeps approaching Tomas Vargas - the last thing you want to do is annoy Camilo's people. Maybe he's got a self-destructive streak of his own. We know from past experience with telenovelas that it will take a while for that to catch up with him. Getting run over by a car and menaced by a sharpshooter didn't even slow him down.
Oh hey, have we reached the halfway mark? Is it 62 episodes or 64?
And I suspect that Yago would stop all of this if they would turn themselves in and confess to their crimes. I don't think that would satisfy someone like Fidel, who truly has a sadistic streak. And I don't think it will happen, either, because even Abel (who actually did want to turn himself in at one point) decided there was no point once Omar had "died." (Never mind the suffering and humiliation of Omar's family, I guess.)
One thing I will say for Sara. Before Damian came back into her life, she seemed prepared to live an honest life with Omar on the straight and narrow. So we can't say that she's incapable of doing it. Damian manipulated her, and she let him. Once that happened, she seemed to resign herself to a life of dishonesty. She says things that sound like expressions of guilt, but most people deal with guilt by giving money to charity, working in a soup kitchen, making up for their misdeeds, and trying to be a better person. (Or wearing a barbed wire belt and whipping themselves like the butler in Hotel.) She's gone in completely the opposite direction and then she torments herself over having to pay the consequences. "I'm paying for what I did." Yeah, Sara, but you keep on doing it, so you're going to keep on paying. It's a bizarre form of self-punishment when you continue to bring misery on yourself by harming others.
I wonder if we will ever see Damian's backstory. I bet there are some real horrors there. Damian doesn't seem to torment himself over anything, but it is weird how he keeps approaching Tomas Vargas - the last thing you want to do is annoy Camilo's people. Maybe he's got a self-destructive streak of his own. We know from past experience with telenovelas that it will take a while for that to catch up with him. Getting run over by a car and menaced by a sharpshooter didn't even slow him down.
Oh hey, have we reached the halfway mark? Is it 62 episodes or 64?
Oh yeah, Tofie. I think Yago would love to hear that Sara was somehow blameless and totally blackmailed into testifying against him. And unfortunately there's no sign of her on the evidence tape, is there? But he's already seen enough of her machinations to know what kind of person she is. Anyone who says "I have paid dearly" just because people are mad at her for what she's done shows a total lack of empathy. He tells everyone he's just using her, and I'm sure he believes it. But that's what people say about heroin, too, right up to the day that they OD or catch a dirty-needle disease.
Sara wasn't committed to the straight and narrow, had she been she would have found another way to save Ambar. All she really did was run away for a few months because she was raped by a man she scammed. It really didn't take much for Sara to relapse but she didn't stop there. She chose to manipulate Omar and his best friends because she's good at it and she finds joy in a scam well done. She lacks empathy. The only reason she felt bad after putting Omar behind bars was because she lost a raving fan. Poor Sara, unlucky in love.
Oh my Julie, after watching this last night, you had all my sympathy. This was so hard to watch, and doubly hard to recap, I'm sure.
I did love your characterization of Abel's digs as a "loud-looking apartment". For the rest, just too depressed to even discuss. I do think Yago is realizing the glee Fidel takes in hurting others. Lucio inflicted financial damage, but he was not responsible for killing Fidel's children. It's hard to reconcile Fidel and Camilo's tender love for Selma, with their penchant for violence and pain. I don't think people like that, in real life, actually have tender feelings for anyone.
I did love your characterization of Abel's digs as a "loud-looking apartment". For the rest, just too depressed to even discuss. I do think Yago is realizing the glee Fidel takes in hurting others. Lucio inflicted financial damage, but he was not responsible for killing Fidel's children. It's hard to reconcile Fidel and Camilo's tender love for Selma, with their penchant for violence and pain. I don't think people like that, in real life, actually have tender feelings for anyone.
Judy B: Julia & Matias could be the only ones living by the end of the show.
Niecie: Fidel & Camilo fighting over Selma does remind me of PyP's Eladio vs. Arturo & we all know how that went....
Tofie: When the truth comes out about the conspiracy against Omar, how will Jonas & Melina react when they find out Sara, Abel & Lucio framed Omar & destroyed his life ?
Julie: I'm still not convinced that Ambar will be among the living because of her health condition, which could relapse.
I also don't see Bruno making it alive either because Damian will kill him too!
Niecie: Fidel & Camilo fighting over Selma does remind me of PyP's Eladio vs. Arturo & we all know how that went....
Tofie: When the truth comes out about the conspiracy against Omar, how will Jonas & Melina react when they find out Sara, Abel & Lucio framed Omar & destroyed his life ?
Julie: I'm still not convinced that Ambar will be among the living because of her health condition, which could relapse.
I also don't see Bruno making it alive either because Damian will kill him too!
Goblue, it was in episode 2 or so, Sara was recalling how her father raised her to be a scam artist. One of their cons was to pick up a rich guy at a hotel bar, sneakily steal his money, and sneak out the bathroom window or something... one time she got caught and the guy raped her.
GoBlueFan- Sara and Damian had been running their scams for years since she was a little girl, up until she was a young woman and their scams involved her seducing rich older men (but not sex), getting them drunk/drugged, and then Damian and/or her robbing them (usually their hotel safes). One of the men they scammed found Sara, and then brutally beat and raped her. When she got home, obviously bruised and bloodied, Damian didn't even blink an eye. All he cared about was the money they had scammed. That's when Sara quit. She packed her bags, left, and went to Mexico City--- where she met Omar, got a legit job, lived with a nice old lady in her house, and decided she was going to live her life on the straight and narrow. Then one day Damian popped up, like the cockroach he is, and told her Ambar would die without an expensive operation. And the only way to pay was by robbing this casino...
Because that's what anyone would do when there's a family health crisis. Rob a casino. Of course!
Yago doesn't even know that Damian was involved in the heist, does he? That will be an interesting revelation for him. It will also maybe give him an excuse to redirect his vengeance to Dam instead of Sara.
Yago doesn't even know that Damian was involved in the heist, does he? That will be an interesting revelation for him. It will also maybe give him an excuse to redirect his vengeance to Dam instead of Sara.
Watching this type show makes one appreciate the wonders of the fast forward button.
Thanks Julie, just got to this episode this morning. Tad behind.
I have thought all along that there would be few standing at the end of this and we seem to be moving closer to that scenario. Poor innocent Ale. If seeing her doesn't make Yago start rethinking his plans, then I don't know what finally will.
If we keep keep in the spirit of the original Dumas' novel, Yago will have his revenge, and nothing else.
Thanks Julie, just got to this episode this morning. Tad behind.
I have thought all along that there would be few standing at the end of this and we seem to be moving closer to that scenario. Poor innocent Ale. If seeing her doesn't make Yago start rethinking his plans, then I don't know what finally will.
If we keep keep in the spirit of the original Dumas' novel, Yago will have his revenge, and nothing else.
Gracias Julie!
The most exciting scene was definetly Lucio getting beaten up in jail and with him having phanthasms of Omar's name. The filming of it was just wonderful. The Katia scene with Damian was frightening as well.
The cutest one was Abel picking up Ambar at the airport. As much as Abel is messed up, I kind of want Abel with Ambar more but more as a brother/sister bond. Yago is a piece of filth.
Even with Lucio gettting tortured it doesn't really seem that he deserved it. Sara deserves to be in Lucio's spot much more. Matias needs his beloved father back. Sara is the mother of all devils and was not even the slightest just a pawn of Lucio. It's more of the opposite.
The most exciting scene was definetly Lucio getting beaten up in jail and with him having phanthasms of Omar's name. The filming of it was just wonderful. The Katia scene with Damian was frightening as well.
The cutest one was Abel picking up Ambar at the airport. As much as Abel is messed up, I kind of want Abel with Ambar more but more as a brother/sister bond. Yago is a piece of filth.
Even with Lucio gettting tortured it doesn't really seem that he deserved it. Sara deserves to be in Lucio's spot much more. Matias needs his beloved father back. Sara is the mother of all devils and was not even the slightest just a pawn of Lucio. It's more of the opposite.
I think Lucio's level of betrayal of Omar was even greater than Sara's, despite the fact that she was the mastermind. Lucio was Omar's "brother", had known him his whole life, Omar had welcomed him into his home since they were little kids and was nothing but good to him. Lucio betrayed family (and for what?), while Sara simply betrayed a lover (for her family).
I have to say, eventhough we all know the beatings are common occurrence in jails, I can't watch. They make my stomach go weird. I have to say I believe Lucio deserved every puñete he got. AND, if yago is idiot enough to keep Sara at the end, he would have deserved every beating he got. And, actually, I hope someone beats him senseless if he does. I wonder if he will make her pay or if he will go soft....
Thank you, Julie! I have yet to watch the episode but I popped in to show my appreciation in advance. I checked the Univision page and saw the resumen title with Ale's lifeless body. Boooo! Why couldn't they just fulfill Vivi's excellent theory of Silvia rescuing Ale and nursing her to a health in a secret location until the time comes for her revenge? Oh well.
I look forward to reading your retelling of the events, once I watch this sad sad episode.
By the way, UniMás is airing Yago Monday to Thursday only. It looks like we'll never get a full 5 days' worth of episodes for this show, ever! :)
I look forward to reading your retelling of the events, once I watch this sad sad episode.
By the way, UniMás is airing Yago Monday to Thursday only. It looks like we'll never get a full 5 days' worth of episodes for this show, ever! :)
Hello, Gina. I didn't enjoy watching Lucio's beating either. I still want him to die twice, but the beatings seem pointless to me because Lucio doesn't know why he's getting them. He thinks it's about the casino, and it sort of is, but not the way he thinks. I like people to know what they're being punished for!
Well, since he was hallucinating Omar's name, he seems to realize that this is karma coming back to punch him in the gut for what he did to Omar. Even Abel said it to him.
Steve- If that's info from the next episode, please delete it and wait until that recap is posted. Thanks.
Thank you Vivi in DC and Julie for the welcoming notes. I am from Panama. I read the recap for Epi 32 and for a moment thought I was allucinating reading it. So...what do think: Ambar or Sara at the very end?
Gina- I can't see Yago walking off into the sunset with either of them at the end of this. If he does have a happy ending, it will be him walking off into the sunset with his son-- and I think that's a pretty slim chance too.
Vivi: Apologize for the mistake there.
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Thanks, Steve. Yes, many times the tragedies and barbarities in the real world are far worse that the ones in our fake telenovela world.
Forgot to compliment you on your title Julie. I'm usually in such a rush to read the recap and that I don't even notice. But that was poignantly effective.
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