Thursday, April 27, 2017
Vino el Amor #134 (Univision 123); Wednesday, April 26, 2017: Cooperating Together
Labels: vino
Later gators. Yawn.
A Marta trashing opportunity but no mention of the affair that started it all.
A chocolate chip tragedy.
A company reorganization instead of filling a position.
Its nearly impossible to get anything done without your own work cubical.
There would be no Graciela and David without the help of Luciana and Marta.
I really miss Juan's maniacal laugh
Lillian sounded pathetically out of her mind when she tried bashing Marta to Adolfo and I'm pleased that he is becoming another Voice of Reason in this story. She will not end up with him after this and his prediction will come true. Whether she goes to prison or not for her conspiracy with Juan she will no longer be welcome at the BLA.
DisGrace truly proved herself queen of all narcissists in this story by trying to distract David from necessary work for her stupid wedding stuff. No man I know would marry anyone that shallow or selfish. He's trying to get things straightened out to provide this vitch with everything she is marrying him for! I wonder whether she was this needy as a child.
We didn't hear David talk about the danger to Fer and Bobby, but if he told DisGrace and her parental unit about Juan's threat wouldn't that be their perfect excuse to ship them out?
More later.
UA: Lillian Sanders Fast Forward!
Tofie: Juan keeping the documents & transactions isn't surprising because he's holding them as his trump-card.
Is the "I miss my Marta." simmering and about ready to come to a boil?
Adolfo and Miggster need to ban Lil and Satania form the vineyard and call the PoPo if they show up.
W T F is wrong with DudVeed? He Needs to Marry DisGrace to have someone to tell him when to eat, go potty, take a bath, what to wear, etc.. Because he is just too dam dumb to do it on his own.
He is going to solve the severe manpower shortage by managerial decree? The comment yesterday about bosses who pontificate and in reallity do nothing was right on the money. David may be still signing the checks drawn from a diminishing till, but he does NOTHING else. Once when I was working 80 hours a week I had one of those bosses tell me he wanted me to "Work smarter, not harder." I interpreted that to mean start my own competing company and took his advise.
So NoJuan is certifiable CrayCray now? Perla sees it but is powerless to escape. It would be hard to see somejuan you have idolized/crushed on since childhood turn into the revenge crazed NoJuan we are seeing now. For him it is no longer even about survival, it is a Kamakazii mission to destroy DudVid and himself also if that is what he must do. If he would just cool his jets a minute, David is on the mission with him, just give him time.
We'll leave the light on for ya. Huh.?
It was clear to me what David missed in Luciana wasn't as a romantic partner but a valuable, committed, poorly paid employee that gave him time to date and play video games with Bobby. He doesn't require Graciela to do anything more than keep the kids happy and stroke him.
Luciana acknowledged the elephant in the room and the first step to she and Miguel getting back together.
I commend Susan for trying to get through to David. She must be hating life at the vineyard these days. I hope she's updating her resume and Linked In profile. Like I said yesterday in my recap, David really does remind me of those dysfunctional bosses you have to manage up because they are blowhards and utterly out of touch and useless. My preferred ending for this show would be to have David's vineyard go out of business as Bodega del Competency hires the good employees away.
So I hope Luciana doesn't go back to Grumpy David and I don't even like her, but she's way too young and has too much spunk to be with an old out-of-touch grump.
I finally get why Fer was a brat after that scene with Bobby. She really just wants her family to be calm and happy like a stable family. She may not be backing the right horse for this, but I don't judge her as harshly as others do.
I laughed so hard at Carito's face when Sonia raptured on about "Mister David." That was a little nice touch of comedic acting there.
David has done nothing to deserve her, and abrasive and obnoxious as he was, Miguel has. It appears some strange did him good, RIP Erika.
In the real world David's desk would have been piled high with resignation letters after his 'Tony Robbins" speech. "We are snowed under and can not do all this work, so I will reshuffle it so we are learning how to do different things, and it will go away."
"And each of you will be working MORE than now, and you are already overloaded to the breaking point."
Nobody has the guts to ask how he managed to drive Luci away?
No one mentions that he has two useless freeloaders lollygaging around doing nothing?
Nobody mentions that maybe he should hire more people YESTERDAY?
Those kind of people never worked for me.!
That little pep rally would have ended with David verbally tarred and feathered in many organizations.
What is this? Medieval England, and these are indentured servants? Except LuLu?
AAAArrrrgggghhh
I felt little actually transpired when I watched the episode, but after reading your excellent summary, realized there was indeed forward movement.
I have to start by saying that like you UA, I was delighted Adolfo took Lili in hand and explained she is going to be bitter and alone. And at this point, she deserves that very bleak outcome.
I also enjoyed Carito's expression as Sonia waxed on about "Mr. David" dy. A very well played scene. Sonia sparkled.
When I saw Perla starting at the non-functioning TV, for the first time, my heart went out to her. She has made Juan the center of her universe and sadly, the planets are about to collide.
I will be out tonight at a retirement party I helped plan for a colleague here so won't see tonight's episode. Looks like things may heat up (if the preview I saw is correct). Sigh. Figures I will likely miss the most action that's happened in months.
Kirby, another magnificent bird. Thank you.
Cynthia, thank you!
Diana
David is being the way he is because of DisGrace's brainwashing. Had he not fallen for her stupid (from our viewpoint) blaming of Luciana for his family problems there would have been no domino effect on everything around him. She created this problem by demonizing Luciana to the children. Her timing was lucky for her because of the crises that Luciana and David had to pay attention to. Since neither DisGrace nor Lillian have a work ethic they are equally oblivious to what this could mean for them as well as the children. Fernanda knows what it takes to get somewhere after having gone through studying and tests and Bobby is old enough and smart enough to learn this lesson.
DisGrace also does this because she fears that any attention not paid to her will clue David in on the truth.
Maybe I misunderstood what he wanted her to do. Maybe he just wanted her to "supervise" Bobby like Marta used to do... but he has Grace for that. I took this to mean that he figured nothing would happen to Bobby if he had an extra adult "watching" him (get shot).
David should probably be calling for armed guards.
Then you could just see the gears turning and her saying to herself, "Stay on Target Girl." and she turned back around with that OMG fake sickly sugar sweet 'Oooh Baby' and did damage control. I'm sure she then headed for the nearest bathroom and destroyed a roll of TP or something.
Aside from his initial interest in Lil, he is pretty solid.
Can a TN Galan be a Galan without being in an intimate romantic relationship?
Adolfo is a prince, and smart too, if I remember what smart looks like this far along.
Or, they are in a safe deposit box, which will easily come to ther light of day on his demise.
A win<-->win either way.
Kirby..your photos are spectacular.
I am smiling at the boss comments. I had one who used to fall asleep in meetings. He always noticed my clothing and jewelry , but he never came to observe me in class while telling me that he had no idea what I did. Hubba had one who suggested "stand up" meetings. He had several who had no concept of money and accounting which made his job doubly hard.
Tofie...wow..Gracie is fascinating the way she can turn off that crazy switch and start stroking Dave's...ego. Amazing what a little petting can do to calm your pet down.
When Luciana said she couldn't help loving David, they should've shown some flashbacks of their love story because I could barely remember them. Let's see: him carrying her out of the water when he thought she was drowning, first kiss, drape opening, first and only night together. That's all I recall.
Boohoo! no chocolate chips for Fer. She seems to have a lot of time to just hang out. David should put her on the vineyard work crew.
Also, I thought that the conversation about marriage between Cubby and TAno was interesting. "Nobody gets married anymore. " Is this the common thought in Mexico today among young people? How old are these writers? Are they male and female?
David being kinda sane and forgiving Carito was fine. At the time, his rally-the-troops bit came off okay (although, yes, having someone--probably Ramon--openly question things might have been a welcome addition a la Susan going "Boss, c'mon, we need some guidance here, we're drowning")...but in hindsight it would have been a little more graceful if he had paid more overt lip service to Luciana's absence. Especially since the show has been pimping her as Grape Supergirl almost as hard as it was pimping Marta as BEST EVER (Fer pining for her chocolate chip cookies rated about three eyerolls).
OTOH, Perla straight up sitting in the dark staring at TV static was unintentionally hilarious. Even over Juan's insistence on taunting David via phone (and David, to his credit, actually gave as good as he got--apparently the madder he gets, the saner he gets?), and over Susan's audience-stand-in expressions behind Graciela after she swanned in, but way behind Carito's WTF face when Sonia was going on about Mr. David.
As for Lilian's last-ditch attempt to sway Adolfo about that devil in a red dress Marta and his comment that if she keeps going the way she is she'll end up completely alone...oh, man, the foreshadowing could be cut with a knife...
It is not like she was swept downstream and bashed on rocks. Didn't Dave has some idle curiosity as how exactly she managed to be dead? She was in shallow water where she would have to lie down to drown. HUH?
I feel NO, I'll say it again, NO pity for David. As Tofie said, he is a grown-assed man with what appears to be life handed to him on a silver platter. And starting with Lisa's murder and pretty much everything henceforth he has done nothing positive. Have a happy (succubus) life big guy.
calm DAve. Then, those guys who rub the tummies of alligators to put them to sleep \zzzzzzzzzzzz popped into my head. Look into my eyes DAve.))))))))zzzzzzz
Something else occurred to me, which was that while the cell phone may not have had much juice in it when DisGrace killed Lisa it's possible that Lisa recorded something earlier that could bite someone else on the arse.
A rock with red nail polish on it right?
Neither can I Niecie. And is our memory at fault? Nopis. One night together hardly constitutes a love story.
And yes Kirby Adolfo is the "stealth galan". :)
Diana
Luciana must be Superwoman! She must work in fast forward and she has time for all the girl talk with Susan.
I'm looking at Juan and Perla....do they seem to be headed for the skids? I found it humorous that Perla went to buy food at the gas station grocery. I see ultimate desperation coming their way. Perla better walk out on him or she will end up with nothing and worse yet, prison. Her best bet is to dump Juan and run, not walk to the nearest exit and get her butt over to the police. Maybe she do a plea deal?
DisGrace makes me angry the way she feels so ENTITLED to break up a work meeting and interrupt the workflow for David. As a narcissist/psychopath, she thinks the world revolves around her. You could just see her seething anger and her "recalculation" efforts as she went from vitch to sweetness in the snap of her fingers.
Julie, I agree David should be hiring some armed guards around the vineyard. He needs a high tech security system too.
Oh and I'm am truly liking and respecting Adolfo very much now. He's my hero! :)
Great comments, all! I had to actually work today! The noive!
This really resonated with me from Julie:
But what really blew my mind last night was David asking Carito, the most vulnerable member of his staff, to watch Bobby, the most vulnerable member of his family. For all he knows, Carito may still have a bullseye target on her forehead. This is the ultimate in stupid. Carito won't be able to help Bobby if something happens.
Really good points on Dumbass from tofie, Kirby. . .yah, grown-assed, willingly-hypnotized man. Lordy! It will be over soon.
And Urban, yes, several weeks back with had an extended discussion on how THE CELL PHONE could have picked up some of the argument/chaos when Lisa heard Grace accuse Lil and Juan of robbing Dud and just before she ran away to call David. More damning would be bits of the argument between Grace and Lisa and an accidental selfie of Lisa's lilly white, perfectly manicured hand slamming a rock against Lisa's tender forehead.
Wishful thinking! Just one day and one week to go!
I love the first screencap. I keep thinking of Dave's old habit of holding LU's head like a basketball . Turn about is fair play, Dave. How do you like it now when Gracie does that to you? I am beginning to think that it is a control\power thing. "Haha..okat...I've got your head in my hands..you are mine ...you are under my control...I am your master...I own your soul."
That Ms Marta is in high demand. Don't
Nobody in that kitchen know how to bake chocolate cookies? As many years
As carito been around marta,she should
Have some idea. Of course everybody can't Bake choco chip cookies. If fer
Is plannin on marrying tano she really
Should think about learning how to cook. Im talkin about the spoiled lil
Princess she'll probably expect Marta
To move in. Marta should put her foot down and say"you're a grown ass woman witha husband do your own damn cookin"
She won't. She'll move in.
Perla-"I will follow you to the ends of the earth", looks like she's gonna follow him to prison. Or hell, take a pick. Can't she think for heself? Why
Do some woman choose badboys? O perla
That guy is gonna be the death of you.
Lillian needs counciling. The "I hate
Marta and I want everybody else to hate her too club" is getting tired.
Let it go dear. Fernando stepped out
With marta, brian loved marta. Let it go. She Got other things to worry about. All her nasty little secrets R
About to come tumbling out by way of
Mr juanderful. And the knowledge that
Daughter #2 murdered daughter #1, is
Going to be a big blow.Those are gonna
Be her anvils. And they are heavey.
It would be great if david's love life Was as organized as his business life.
See how together he is about putting
Together a work plan for them.That was good. But with his love life like most
Guys, he ain't thinkin with his brain.
Now I'll leave that right there. Cuz
Everybody has a weakness. And at the end of this crazy ride, he'll get it together.Besides it's a love story for
Pete's sake. There will be a happy ending, well an ending. Happiness, eh.
Thank you Cynthia darling ;)
Got bomb to drop.Ooooo lil,your in the
Deep Manure pot.
Marta: "The day that you become a mother, you will understand the sacrifices that parents make for their children" Care to share, Marta? I'd love to know what sacrifices you made for your children. Was staying in California a sacrifice that you made for your children? In what way was it a sacrifice? In what way did it benefit your children?
Tano: “It’s just that people nowadays just don’t get married anymore.” Is this official Televisa policy?
Funny how quickly DG backpedaled when David reacted poorly to her anti-Luciana snit. Does he realize that he has the upper hand in this so-called relationship? Oh right, he's doing it for the kiddos.
Juan is such a damned baby, getting all upset because David said he'd take his land away. Juan had just threatened David's children. David could have threatened a lot worse.
I'm not sure Adolfo (who, yes, is our stealth galan) should have told Marta about his talk with Lilian. It will just make Marta smug, and it wouldn't surprise me if she went back to BLA to gloat at Lil, who would then be obligated to kill her. And why indeed did Lil neglect to mention Marta's affair? Was she afraid that it would somehow make Marta more attractive to Adolfo, or herself less attractive? I only ask because for a while there, she was telling that story to everyone she saw.
David's motivational speech reminded me of something I saw on Sesame Street when I was 4. Cookie Monster and Ernie had four cookies on a plate. Rearrange them however you like, and it's still four cookies. Not three (unless Cookie eats one) and definitely not five. I have observed that this is true for workloads, too.
But it was a nice try, David.
Yeah, I'm not sure how many noticed that Tano said no one gets married anymore. These writers really must be anti-marriage or something.
I am looking forward to tonight. Last night seems to be leading up to something a lot bigger.
Young lady, but kinda stupid.She works
Her butt off for both vineyards and only One appreciates her enough to pay her,And she wants to turn it down.
she does know she is an employee? And
Employees get paid. I would not have had a second thought. She really is a hard worker when she works. I didn't
See davdounce Offer her a paycheck,or
Is it done another way? Im glad she took the check.She wants her mom to have a retirement fund, but what about herself? I don't know how that works, but I suppose david took Out for taxes and SSI & MEDICADE and such.O whatever they'll be gone soon.
Julie Nice to see that headless thing has passed. Did the Doctor notice anything unusual, or had it grown back by the time she saw you? And you're right, who ever won an argument with cookies?
I thought Tano's take on matrimony was just to show how young and 'kool' he is.
DisGrace is like the original terminator when we would look through his eyes and see things in his machine vision with range and target information. Then he would switch into 'Target Acquired' mode. Julie I was half watching for her head to spin all the way around when she had that mood change.
6 episodes?
Over here where I live in Los Angeles, if you go over to the more Mexican parts of town like East L.A., Huntington Park, and even Montebello, you will find a LOT of bridal shops. You can find someone to make wedding gowns, bridesmaid gowns, and also for quincianeras. Weddings seem like big business in the Hispanic community as far as I can tell.
My head did grow back, and the only thing the doctor commented on was that I had no tonsils. Which is pretty funny because I've been seeing this doctor for 4 years and my tonsils were removed 17 years ago. But maybe she was saying it for my information, LOL.
As for Grace, every time she speaks I half-expect her to get struck by lightning. Even indoors. (Does she ever wear pants? Like pants-on-fire liar?)
Susanlynn, every time I see someone like DG or Ana Leticia I wonder how, even with suspension of belief, I can accept that anyone could keep up such a facade for so long. You'd think they would just collapse or snap from the stress. I don't think I could do it for more than ten minutes, and even that would probably give me hives. It makes for a good story, but it would be more believable if the mask would slip a little more often.
I do remember one time on 3VA when Maribel was making faces behind AnaLu's back, and someone noticed and asked her about it. Such a thing is so rare in a TN that when it does happen, I remember it!
And it's almost over so I don't care much. Who you gonna side with? They're both Screwed up :~\
To put it another way, and maybe this is too judgy of me, I just cannot imagine staying behind if half my family was getting legally deported. Not for a sacrifice, not for anything. It just seems wrong.
Regarding tonsils, I have one. I hemorrhaged when I had a tonsillectomy when I was seventeen....so just the one is still with me .
That was a seagull.And The eagles in flight They're beautiful in flight. Great photos kirby.
And I would like a garlic butter dipping sauce for my pretzels and shrimp.
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