Caray, Caray!

Hiya amig@s! Hope all is well.

Many thanks Vivi for your excellent Monday recap. Sorry, I couldn't join the discussion. I was in a mad rush to catch up with Yago and SdA.

Enjoy the summary and if you have any queries about a specific scene or piece of dialogue, please let me know in the comment sections and I'll post an answer for you first thing in the morning.

Good night! :)
 

Nandicta- I don't know why you insist on calling these brief summaries when they are full recaps. Fabulous! I feel like I've seen the episode now, but I am looking forward to seeing so many of these scenes, especially the scenes between Sara and Ambar, and Sara and Yago.

Don't you just love it when we read these characters right, and we read Sara and her passive aggressive resentment of Ambar. Sara is getting worse each episode. More gloating and more hypocrisy. Glad that Yago now knows that Sara was the mastermind (or commanding general under Damian's orders).

-Vivi (from my dull FL hotel room)
 

Thank you, Nandicta. "No need. Sara IS the Devil." Who knows when I'll get to see this episode, grr, but now I almost feel as if I've already seen it.

So Mati is supposed to be 12? He looks younger.

What kind of prison makes a guy share a cell with his (soon to be ex) FIL? Oh right, The Only Prison in Mexico!

Any chance Julia was only pretending to be upset about the express delivery reptile? I'm hoping she saw that for what it really was.

Good heavens, did Yago practically reveal his true identity to Abel as well? Is he on a truth-telling rampage??

I am amazed that Ambar wants a piece of the revenge. I thought she was better than that. I was wrong! I don't blame her for being disgusted with Sara and Damian, who have both used her. But Lucio has never used her (well maybe a little bit as leverage, paying her hospital bill to get Sara to marry him). And Abel worships the ground she walks on.
 

Is Ambar going to actively participate in helping Yago bring them down, or is she just not going to reveal his secret because she supports his cause?

Julie- Since it's been 12 years since the betrayal (which happened the day he was conceived), Mati would be 11, which is the exact age of the actor, Ramiro Cid.
 

Thanks Nandicta for the not-so-brief summary!

I think Ambar is liking the idea of revenge but I don't think she has the heart for it. I don't expect it t last if she starts seeing the effects.

Damian needs a good beat down. Disappointed he hasn't gotten it yet.

Abel feels like he deserves to be punished. Does this new info from Yago change his current course in some way? I'm interested to see how he mess forward with this info.

Looks like Julia and Selma will be reunited as family soon. I used to think Fab may have been Camilos child but no.

I love that these characters are smart, unlike in tres veces. They may make bad decisions but none are stupid.
 

Thank you Nandicta!

Carvivile: I'm hoping Julia is reunited with Selma & Fidel IF Camilo doesn't whack them first.

I'm afraid Camilo's not done yet.

Vivi: Yago's body language: "I'm going to kill you Sara."

Part of me wants Yago to pull a Camilo & go completely psycho!

Julie: Karma going to hit Abel & Sara very soon! The question is when.

Might as well rename this show, "Pelican Brief 3.0"
 

Summary? Nandicta, this was a full on wonderful recap! Thank you so much for getting this up.

I know Yago is setting Sara up for a major revenge/surprise, but he's also successfully gotten everyone else to turn against her as well. She has no friend or family left who will support her, and I'm not sure she realizes how isolated she is now. In her own bravado, she thinks she's "won". Boy, her fall will be a joy to behold. Now the question is...who actually winds up taking her down?

I do understand Ambar's feeling of betrayal against her sister and father. She was the excuse that those two needed to keep going with their life of crime and greed. She's a smart cookie and figured that one out pretty fast. I hope she doesn't become the murderous entity that takes them down, especially Sara. Let someone else get their hands dirty, but she is now an ally Yago does need in a way. If anything, between her and his parents, take care of Matias.

Yago knows Abel is weak and wracked with guilt. He is a good pawn to use against the others.

Yeah, Carvivle, everyone else gets beat up in that prison. Why not Damian? If anyone deserved it...and being Lucio's roomie. Stupid plot ploy.

I'm still ambivalent on the whole Julia thing. All I can see is this is a way to get Fidel to become an "Omar" and change the revenge plot.
 

Daisy: Once again, Camilo Daddy Pope always wins again!
 

Poor Julia. She is so close to finding out her whole life has been a lie and her father a monster. Problem is her new father isn't much better. This brings up something I'm not sure of...

How bad is Fidel? We know he scammed people at first, when young. Cheated on his wife with Selma. We know he did well in the casino business, has a lot of unsavory friends in jail, a lot of power but the only time we saw him commit real violence was against Raul. Also during the jail breakout....None of it rises to the level of Camillo killing children and his sadistic nature. I want to feel sympathy for Fidel and Selma for what they have been through but one has to assume Fidel has committed nasty acts through the years, with Selma at his side.

Sara, sometimes I feel for her but most of the time I don't. I understand she tried to leave the bad life behind but Damian roped her back in with Ambar's health. Still, she lived the rest of her life high on the hog, giving nothing to Omar's family, and allowing Lucio to continue to play son to them. Lies after lies and then manipulating Ambar to get to Yago for the business deal meant she never tried to go back and be good. She's blown through her chances of redemption I think.
 

Carvivile: Julia is the Olivia Pope of this show.


 

I noticed that Unimas ran Yago at 6 this morning and will do same time again tomorrow. Does that mean we are back to having Friday episodes? Or will tomorrow's episode actually be the "Thursday" episode? I'm so confused! At any rate, 6 am is better than 3. At least people are awake. Not that it does me any good since I don't get that channel, but seriously I feel that 6 am is less insulting than 3 am. It's an odd time to show such a violent telenovela, but maybe it's good to watch during breakfast (with salted OJ, of course).
 

Julie, if it moves to 6am for west coast then east coast get its at 3am, so UniMas is still insulting someone! Unimas will show repeats of shows. They showed repeats of Yago when it was on Uni, but with no definitive schedule, just one-offs.

I don't know Steve. I don't see Ambar swooping in to clean up messes but she does wear white and drink red wine well enough!
 

Another amazing summary that was really a recap, and with vocab and sizzling sentence to boot. Appreciate the time and intelligence you put into this and the many linguistic gifts you bring us Nandicta.

I am left with a deep sense of melancholy each time I watch one of these episodes. Strangely enough I have come to be somewhat fond of all of these characters, including the monsters. Camilo and Fidel, are horrid, but have deep feelings for their children and for the woman both loved. Sara has done dreadful, monstrous acts, but I believe she also cares, in her way, for her son and her sister.
Yago, Katia, Teo, Abel...all deeply wounded and continuing to hurt others, sometimes accidentally, sometimes on purpose. And you just know that all of this is leading to some greater hurt and tragedy.

Watching these is like being put into the position of a faraway god, seeing human beings continue to harm each other in countless ways rather than learning to truly love and serve each other. Just depressing. But as I've said before, can't stop watching and can't look away.
 

I agree. And great work, Nandicta.

Camilo and Damian had better get what they deserve in the end. Both are incredible monsters with no conscience. Julia/Fabiana will need a shrink desperately, but will never be able to trust one again after what she's found out. Ambar is only slightly better off mentally but if she goes on like she's been in the last few episodes she won't make it to the end. Actually, I don't think she will, anyway.
 

Oh Carvivlie, I just assumed that Unimas had a separate west coast feed so it would show at 6 am there too. It's insanity!!
 

Julie maybe so. I haven't checked my dvr settings to see if the time of the recordings has changed. You are probably right.
 

Nandicta,

Thanks for this clever and illuminating recap. Well done.

Thanks also to Vivi, Countx, Julie for your dedication and excellent recaps.

I apologize for not being involved in the discussions recently but with the schedule changes in programming this show I've had trouble catching up and keeping up with the actual episodes and DirecTV let me down by not keeping up with the schedule and channel changes.

As I was afraid I would, I'm beginning to warm toward Sara and to sympathize with her plight and point of view. I'm thinking that she is not nearly as evil as I originally thought. I still detest Yago, however.

Did any notice or mention that in the scene where Damián dug up Alejandra's body and then called Yago and Bruno that he had the cross traced in ash on his forehead that is traditionally done for Catholic faithful on Ash Wednesday? I wonder what was up with that. Damián doesn't strike me as particularly religious.

Something else I noticed was Abel apparently intending to light that cigarette but not succeeding. I don't recall, has anyone ever noticed him actually smoking? It reminded me of that relentless cop in Mentir Para Vivir.

I was very surprised that Camilo let Julia's accomplices in deceiving him off as easy as he did.

Carlos
 

Great to hear from you Carlos!

Every time I start to soften towards Sara I remember something bad she did post the robbery. She and Lucio have had fun for years scamming people, building up their casino. Navel gazing. Lying to Jonas and Melina. Lying to Ambar. Trying to seduce Yago into a business deal. Lest we forget how she told Ambar their date was off so she could make a move on Yago to get him as a business partner. She is crooked. Can't help herself. What's funny is she thinks she is going to live a good life with Yago and things will be different. But does she not remember that Yago was the one that had the idea to set Lucio to put him in jail. How does that make him better than Lucio?
 

Carlos, are you sure that wasn't just a dirty smudge? I didn't notice a cross at all, but sometimes I only listen and don't look.

Interesting question about the cigarette. I think I've seen Abel smoke before, but maybe he was only holding the cigarette and gesturing with it and not actually smoking it.
 

Matias is a smart perceptive kid, I wonder why he hasn't already become suspicious of the goings-on between his mom and Yago.

I got the impression that Selma already knew that psychologist, Carolina, maybe having even been a former patient herself. The only psychologist in Mexico City perhaps?

Carlos
 

Julie,

At first I thought that was a smudge or even a bruise from an earlier struggle but they replayed that scene in the following episode and I'm fairly certain that was a cross exactly like we are accustomed to seeing on folk's foreheads on Ash Wednesday.

Carlos
 

Thank you Nandicta. Busy and barely able to get to the recaps much less watch the show but this does me fine.

Despicable as Sara is, and I'm not gonna warm to her, I hate Yago more. They deserve each other.
 

Tofie: Nobody will have a happy ending when all is said & done!

Carlos: I've got the same impression regarding Selma & Carolina.

UA: The chaos between Fidel & Camillo all over Selma. Seriously ?

 

Thanks, Nandicta. Great recap.

I feel for Sara because Damian set her on this road to hell while she was a young thing. Ambar though sickly got to live a sheltered life and wasn't pressed into dirty scams. But Sara bragging about her bonbon and showing off her ring with a husband in jail and a sister heartbroken is so tacky!

 

Sara is tacky, all right.

Sorry I once again forgot to put up a discussion header earlier. I'll have one up in a few minutes.
 

Julie: Looking forward to the juicy recap!
 

Thank you Vivi, Julie, Carvivlie, Steve, Daisynjay, JudyB, Urban Anthropologist, Carlos, Tofie and Niecie in MDfor taking the time to read the recap and join the conversation! I'm sorry I couldn't be part of the patio fun yesterday but I loved reading all your comments. Gracias bunches! :)