Caray, Caray!

Blue Lass. Do you do stand up on the side? You are a super talented writer and one hell of a comic!!!
 

Oops forget to write my name on that comment!
 

Thanks Blue Lass.

Can someone please put rog out of our and their misery. He walks around being all ugly and "I'm big & bad". He's an arrogant SOB,that's what he is.

No trip to Paris. I agree with sara,
Tell it. No holdin g back. No more
Secrets. Alonso is your son. U can't
Marry your sons woman, that's nasty.
Get over it. Deni is waiting in the
In the wings.
Ant and carman would make a good match. They are mari's parents after all. Did carman and her hubby adopt Mari? How did that come about?

Rafi should consider changing the locks on her house and/or get a gun
And learn how to shoot. Was she ever married to rog at some point in her
Life? Why?

Santi looked so sad sitting there in that wheelchair holding those sad flowers. Well at least he won't be
Giving up on her. Looks like her dad
Liked his determination.
Is santi gonna tell Demwit about al
Knowing Leo is his bio dad? He looks
Like he'd have fun doing that. Santi
Don't like his dad does he? I am not
Surprised, the man is a train wreck.

Padre Dan is still in his weakened state but he is aware of his where-a
Bouts. They better guard him good he
Got All the imfo on The crooks.

Thank Blue Lass. Bullet points-A+
 

Thank you, Nlue Lass, for this bonny, snarktastic recap. You had me laughing out loud with "Sara tells him schadenfreude is not attractive.". Honest. I also enjoyed "Forget the peephole concession -- someone could make a fortune introducing motion-detector lights to Telenovelaland.". True that!

Adding "dondeabouts" to my vocabulary list. ;-)

Yayyyyy!!!!! Dan The Man is alive! I saw UnPadre Dan open his eyes, too, Nina, and paying attention to the convo. Sara has to be in on this, hence her mysterious trip and giving Dem the stink eye/eye roll at the cemetery.

Can't wait to see Leo and Al hug and make up.
 

Thanks, Blue Lass.

Yay! Lety did not respond to the serenata.

Finally, Alonso knows the truth.

Yay! Father Dan lives!


 

Wonderful summary Blue Lass. Thank you. Great relief to have Leo's paternity out in the open. During Sara's conversation with Alonso, she was dragging it out so long, I was afraid something or someone was going to interrupt and he would NOT get the news.

And, as always, have to admire the way wily Renata can think on her feet. Enlisting Dem in her strategy to keep Alonso under lock and key was a very smart move indeed. Our little lady would have made a great international spy.

Happy Friday everyone. My mishaps continue. Broke off a tooth last night crunching on Jordan Almonds. Will be making appointments to fix car and teeth!
 

JudyB - when it rains, it pours, no? Hubby came home from work yesterday telling me that a tooth is hurting and he is going in to see the dentist this morning. Same thing happened two weeks ago but on other side, and it required root canal. Vaya!


 

Thank goodness we have our TNs! Sometimes it's the only thing keeping me sane.

AMOT, I did used to have a humor column in a library journal...that's about as famous as I got. I can only write for people I'm genuinely fond of. :D
 

JudyB, I just chipped a tooth last week and went through a “bonding” experience at the dentist yesterday. 😬
 

Well, it gets worse dear Patio...when I called this morning the office is closed and they won't be back in until Tuesday. But I love the shared misery! It really helps!
 

JudyB, ITA about shared misery. 😁
 

JudyB - Oh noes!!! How dare the dentist take a holiday! Qué nervio tiene! Valgame dios! Caray,Caray!
Things like this often happen right before Holiday weekends. Well, my mother always said that misery loves company. So true, and we are here to commiserate, but seriously, I hope you are not suffering any pain from the tooth damage. Gah!


 

No pain. Just embarrassment. I had no business eating Jordan Almonds. I'm supposed to be over eating candy, but I'm not. And every tooth disaster I've ever had is usually tied to some forbidden treat. Do you think the Universe is trying to tell me something? LOL.....Like...GROW UP!!!!!
 

JudyB - we have to have some vices in life, right? LOL

Hubby just called and it is another root canal. Budget gremlins! The endodontist will have a very nice Christmas this year. ;-p
 

You're tellin' me. I'm the Queen of Root Canal. Have no medical problems but without dental insurance I'd probably be a pauper.
 

At least you have dental ins. We don't. 😜
 

Well, good news on the car. Took it to a local joint called the Dent Doctor. While I waited they buffed out a lot of the damage, filled in the rest with the appropriate paint and also buffed out the white marks on the front fender (don't even remember what I scraped but whatever). All done. Plus I felt a little better when the guy took one look, said "Oh yeah...garage door, right? We get a lot of those."

Good to know I'm not the only one (other than your good husband Doris)
 

What we all have in common - -other than we are addicted to telenovelas- - is we have paid for our respective dentists’ mortgages!!!!
and JUDY, i had to give up 2 things i loved and had been enjoying every day due to teeth issues. ( root canals, implants, crowns etc.
The two things were gum and popcorn!

Seems to me this TN is heading into the Ultimas Semanas era though Univision isn’t even bothering to tell us. I mean, can they really do that without alerting us? GEE!!! If we were the jury, Loonyvision would be testifying before the grand jury!!!!!
 

Double root canals. Fun times huh guys? I had a root canal when I was 16
Some years later I had all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed, they were coming
In the wrong way, pushing the other teeth. That was the best sleep I ever
Had. Of course I remember nothing. Fun
Time at the dentist. And it didnt cost
An arm n aleg, and two hands like it does now. Good if you got ins.

I missed today episode, lookin forward
To the recap. It's gonna be really snarkalicous.

Don't like renata. She should go to paris. And stay.
 

AmoT - my guess is this coming week will be our final episodes, but maybe two weeks, because plot lines are starting to wrap up already:
Karla moving on from her divorce
Cris & Liso back together
Leo as bio dad of Al revealed
Fr Dan The Man is aliiiiive

 

OK- EPISODES!! We are beyond what the the Ultimas SemanaS alert usually means---at least 2-3 weeks left.
I believe we are about to see episode 64 (?) and it says there are 70/71 episodes. Boo hoo. I really enjoyed this one.
I hope someone posts a great "replacement" TN on here soon soon. Pleeeese...and as Blue Lass said a week ago--hopefully one that is relatively "traditional" --not like La Pilota or Yago with way too much disturbing brutality.
 

If episode 64 is on Monday, Looneyvision has been known to dice and splice episodes in order to finish up on their own timeline. They like to do this with the prime time telenovelas. We will have to see what happens with CQM.
 

Had a brain flash and looked at the program guide on our cable. Que bonito amor starts September 12 in that time slot. I don't know if I will watch this time. I did not watch the first time because La Hija Del Mariachi was still fresh in my mind and heart (it is one of the best) and it is a Mejía production.

This gives me hope that MMTMF will be on prime time.
 

Yes, true. Finale could be Friday!

I see one that looks interesting but starts in NOVEMBER!! "Contracara" That's too far away.
And the second one- (that sounds reasonable- without total NARCO theme--is "TENIAS QUE SER TU"

"Contracara" is an upcoming Mexican telenovela created by Leonardo Padrón for Televisa. It's a remake of a 1992 Colombian telenovela 'En cuerpo ajeno' and it will start airing on November 2018. The main stars are Angelique Boyer and Michel Brown.

"Tenías que ser tú" but I can't find when this one airs.
 

Well, at least I will have AMAR SIN LEY coming up, hopefully before 2019!!
 

The Gran Final of this TN is labeled #75, so that suggests 11 more episodes, winding up on Sept. 17. For it to end on the 11th to make space for the next one, either there will be massive slicing and dicing (GRRRRR) or the Mexican numbering is different. Either way, yes, we're in ultimas somethings.

I will try to get you minicapped in an hour or two. It's a little hectic here.
 

Friday Bunnycap, Part 1:

- Everybody tells everybody about everybody's parentage: Al tells Dem and the assembled breakfast hangers-on; Sara tells Dem again when he refuses to believe it; Leo tells Denise; Mari throws it in Dem's face later on when he threatens her with the usual; and Denise tells Ant, who finally comes clean about Mari

- Dem calls Santi a bastard and Luci a slut, which does not improve matters

- Liso visits Tia Marta to apologize, which makes her feel so guilty she confesses to Cris, who goes running back to Liso for te-amo's and an eskimo kiss

- Santi moves his foot, but no one is around except Ren, who mocks him. Later, though, he has a foot-moving party with Sara and Al. Group huggies!
 

I checked on Zap2it tv listings and it agrees with doris’ cable listings. When this started I read somewhere there were only 70 episodes. How ever it turns, out I hope it is not sliced and diced. I started ”Qué bonito amor” when it was shown prime time a few years back. I even had my own mariachi name: La Perla Del Norte. 🙂 The music was great but to me Jorge Salinas was too old for his role and that was enough of a distraction for me to lose interest. Btw, I love Jorge Salinas. I am expecting MMTF 2 to be a prime time offering since it did so well in that slot before. Hope my expectations are true. 😊
 

Friday Bunnycap, Part 2:

- Rafi advises Ren to unpack her bags and "console" Al

- Denise presses Leo to recognize that Mari does not love him. Carmen agrees, and points out that he doesn't love her, either -- all of his novias have always been Lucia.

- Dem demands that Rog recover the pistol that killed Lucia, so he can use it to kill Leo. When Rog points out that will destroy their leverage in keeping Mari away from Alonso, Dem says "KILL THEM BOTH"

- Carla mentions to Liso that she was with his father for 30 years, which means she's at least 58, which means she's my age, AND I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT ANYMORE
 

OOOOOOOOO mariachi names! I'm in!

Not a Salinas fan, but I never get the main couple anyway. I just look for a secondary couple to invest in.

 

Blue Lass, QBA was a great sing along novela.
 

Caray recapped QBA if you want an idea of the plot.
 

Thanks, Jarifa!
 

I'm with you Blue Lass...I didn't look as good as Karla at 38, much less 58!. Hopefully, the actress is actually younger than that. I last saw her in Lo Que la Vida me Robó as a navy officer. Role went well with her rather chiseled good looks.

The gay story has been very discreet. Off-camera kisses or eskimo kisses. Probably a nod to audience sensibilities.

Thanks for another delightful bunnycap. I too thought this was just a 70 episode telenovela. We shall see. Dying to know where the real "prima" is, if Renata is just a grifter.


 

Blue Lass- It says online that jessica mass (CARLA) is 41 years old...which seems more like it. If Liso were a just a drop older looking, he could certainly be her boyfriend as well!! At 41, you can still look pretty damn good but all these "ladies" start their botoxing in their late 20s to expand their enhanced HD possibilities! I love when I see a really natural looking one, like Ana Brenda --no others come to mind at the moment but I know I'm forgetting someone.

(JudyB- I mentioned at the beginning that I thought Liso accepted the role on condition that there were no serious or even mild kissing scenes and I think I was right about that. Suits me fine because Christian's character is a bit TOO dramatic for me!)

If it is really ending this week, at the very least Univision will be announcing the FINALE date???
 

Blue Lass - thank you for your succinct bunnycap!

UnPadre Dan looked more alert and communicative. Good sign.

I heard that "30 years", too, and did some math in my head. IIRC, she did not say (IIRC) "married", just "with" Ed for 30 years so I figured if they count dating time (starting as teenagers) and got married young (maybe at 20 y/o to account for Flo & Liso's ages), she might be 45-ish. I did not realize until recently that she was "Cobra" in Reina de Corazones, where her hair was black. #imareinamaniac

As for being 58 years old . . that ship sailed ages ago for moi. Gah.

As for QBA - I couldn't accept Jorge Salinas (44 y/o) in the role as the same character played by Mark Tacher (30 y/o). The character's age was approx. 25-30 y/o, IIRC. Big age difference when each actor played the role. But, hey, it's producer Mejía who cast 48 y/o Ed Yañez to play a twenty-something in FELS. It's a Mejía trademark? LOL

Amot - nothing surprises me with Looneyvision (a/k/a Univision) anymore, so if they do not announce "ultimas capitulos," it is business as usual with that channel. It will end when it ends, or we see promos for the next and a gran estreno date.

 

Thanks, Blue Lass.

Too much unanswered violence against females again.

So glad, Elena’s calls for help worked.

Too bad Mariela couldn’t have put her knee or hands in a vice like grip to good use on Demián’s nether region when he put his hands on her throat.



Talking about Eduardo Yáñez, I read somewhere recently that he will be playing a villain in “La reina del sur 2”.
 

Doing a little more research in preparation for the end8ng of CMQ 😒 i may give Falsa Identidad a try which starts sept 11th on telemundo. And...Falco has already begun airing on telemundo they on ep 7 but first 6 available ON DEMAND.
They are both Non Narco stories with decent casts am dgood to great reviews.
DOES anyone have thoughts on either of these?????
 

AMOT, I watch Falco and am really enjoying it. It is a solid detective series with an overarching mystery and also a mystery a week format.

Yay!!!! We finally have a date! “Mi marido tiene más familia” replaces “ La Bella y las bestias” on Tuesday 9/11: 8:00 central time.
 

Yayyy!!!!! Thanks for the MMTMF update, Jarifa.
 

Hello, dear patio friends.

It's a pity I couldn't join the fun earlier, but the last couple of months of my life have been crazier than the craziest, most insanely absurd telenovela ever produced(o.k, maybe a little less crazy than Sueno de horor, but close to it), so actual telenovelas were put on the back burner for quite a while.

I was, therefore, terribly behind on both CQM and LBYLB, so couldn't read the recaps or comment, but finally managed to catch up and am now having a blast binge-reading the recaps and bunnycaps and all the snarky comments.

Irene
 

JARIFA: Thank you for giving me a go ahead on FALCO. (and on MMTMF --though not as enthusiastic as the rest of you since not that impressed on season 1)
So.....I will still await anybody 's opinion on FALSA IDENTIDAD as well). I will probably repost on FALSA IDENTIDAD right before it begins- SEPTEMBER 11- LIVE. I love to be able to record on my DVR as opposed to catching up via ON DEMAND.

 

Hi Irene, welcome back to the Patio. Pull up a chair and enjoy the ultimos capitulos.
 

Thank you Doris. I am gladly rejoining this lovely patio for the ultimas. It will be fun, I am sure.

Irene
 

While I find this telenovela eventful, suspenseful and even thrilling and love its top notch villains, touches of realism, proactive protagonista and interesting supporting characters, I have to admit that I dislike every single galan in this telenovela, which is a first for me, in my entire history of telenovela watching.

It's the first time ever that I find the main galan, Alonso, absolutely insufferable, boring, irrelevant to the plot to the point of being a simple decoration and not a very good one at that. Apart from being Mariella's eternal love, for whatever reason, he does nothing, nothing!!! the entire telenovela. He works in Quadrum, but this fact has been completely irrelevant to the plot; he had suspicions about Damian but did absolutely nothing about those suspicions and then forgot about them; he contributed nothing whatsoever to the plot regarding supposed demise of the Unpadre Daniel etc... etc.. He even initially let go of his suspicions that Mariella was not telling him the truth about why she stood him up.

And apart from being absolutely useless and purposeless, he is the first galan that in my opinion has no qualities at all and I keep wondering what Mariella found in him. When she met him, he was unchivalrous, unkind, unhelpful, completely unromantic, not charming, unwitty, uninteresting... etc... Totally unappealing and undeserving of being called a galan and he only changed for the worst!

Leo is good looking, but that's about it. All he does is brood, obsess and melancholically stare while wearing clothes that look like they were purchased 3 for a dollar in a thrift shop.

Santi has always treated his supposed love like garbage, humiliating and mistreating her for no reason and never showing her any kind of affection. His constant mood swings and instability are very worrying and Lety better not accept his lame little serenade or she risks to end up in a relationship similar to Elena's with Rogelio.

Horrible Antonio asked Denise to move in with him after knowing her for a couple of days and while his poor wife's body is still warm in the grave.

And Cristian dumped a noble, caring, loving and intelligent Liso just because he gave his unbiased professional opinion about a known suspect in a criminal case, which happened to be Cristian's aunt.That's not a valid reason to end a relationship, you idiot, especially after aggressively pursuing Liso for so long!

Whatever happened to noble, brave, romantic galans in telenovelas, I ask?! Are the likes of Alonso, Santi and Cristian what we are going to get from now on? I have more than enough a...oles in real life, thank you very much, I don't need them as galans in my telenovelas.

Irene, barely back from a self-imposed exile and already ranting like a lunatic

 

Anonymous: You may be “ranting like a lunatic,” but you are 1000% correct in your analysis about these characters. In fact, it is a very impressive analysis! After reflecting on the paucity of attractive galanes, i recalled how i used to absolutely need a hansome, sexy galan (physically and emotionally) in order to thoroughly enjoy my TNs. AT times, the galanes were not quite up to my standards
physically 😂😂😂 but their emotional strength and appeal made up for it.
So i realized i have come a LONG way in last few years - - in that i can thoroughly enjoy a telenovela (like CMQ) even though there are zero appealing galanes- primary and secondary characters included.
I remember lamenting yesrs ago that there were NO men in the world that even vaguely resembled these appealing protagonists.

Anyway, the Alonso actor never appealed to me physically in any TN, - though his very occasional smile is cute,
I think Mariela kept “seeing” or rather imagining the Alonso of her youth and assumed that deep down, he was still that same wonderful 12 year old!
 

Irene, please don't hold back; tell us how you really feel! LOL We all have said the same things earlier on about this telenovela, here at the Patio.

ITA with you about Alonso. He is so uninspiring. More of a Casper Milquetoast, IMO. We all agreed, early on, that if he is the future of Telerisa galans, we might as well join the convent. (See what you've been missing while AWOL?)

I'm overnight shipping to you a telenovela beanie hat and it should arrive before tomorrow's episode. Please put it on immediately and use the chin strap. ;-).

The current state of galans, or better yet, UnGalans, is rather dire. Pathetic. National disaster level. I have no idea if the problem is in the scripts, the actors, or the directing.

Personally, I would be happy with reruns of the stellar classic telenovelas, as long as they are one hour long episodes.
 

AMOT, I am ashamed to admit to it, but handsome, manly and strong galans with the appropriate galanesque qualities to boot are still more important to me than the overall quality of the telenovela. That's why I really enjoyed Soy tu duena, even though I needed 10 beanies to get through every single episode and absolutely loved the ridiculous Amores Verdaderos.

But, as Doris so eloquently puts it, "The current state of galans, or better yet, UnGalans, is rather dire. Pathetic. National disaster level" and since I really love telenovelas and don't want to stop watching them, I guess I will have to make do with what they offer us now, eagerly awaiting for Televisa and Telemundo to wake up and realize that if it aint broke, don't fix it and that the classical format of telenovelas, with real galans and horrible, terrible no good villains was the best.
Oh well, at least the villains in CQM are top notch and the plot is really good.

Doris, thank you for the beanie, I am going through tons of them now, especially with LBYLB, although CQM has more than enough beanie moments too.
I am with you about the rerun of the classics, especially the ones featuring the love of my life Fernando Colunga. But I guess I would also gladly watch the old ones with Ed Yanes (especially Yo compro esa mujer) and Jorge Salinas.

Irene


 

Apropos beanie moments on CQM, here are some that I could think of:

1) Where were social services, police and border control when a single middle aged man which was at one time a prime suspect in a murder investigation took an orphaned prepubescent child for God knows what purpose. And not only did he take said child, he even went to live abroad with her, again for God knows what purpose. We the viewers know that Leo's intentions were noble, but if we were to read a similar story in the news, I bet the words Amber alert, kidnapping, suspect, police, social services, international manhunt etc... would feature heavily.
2) Why the issue of Mariela's inheritance only came up now? Why no one bothered to find out whether the recently orphaned child is entitled to an inheritance, especially knowing that her grandfather owned quite a bit of valuable land?

3)Why Carmen, who knew about the land, did nothing to inform Leo and Mariela when Demian's corporation started to build something on Mariela's land?

4)How Demian never suspected that Al is not his son? Surely, Leo was Lucia's only sexual partner when Al was conceived and I doubt that Lucia married Dem just days after being separated from Leo, so Al must have been born "premature" and yet looking full term.
Dem knew about Lucia's story with Leo, so why, suspicious and jealous as he is, didn't he at least have a fleeting suspicion that his premature son might be Leo's.

5) If Cristian is the trauma surgeon, why is it always Mariela (a G.P) that is in charge of every single trauma case?

6) Why would Rafaela, who is shown to be a calculating gold-digger, take a broke, below average looking notary with a host of problems as her lover? She is not bad looking, surely she could have had someone better than Ed?

7)And why did she allow Rogelio to rape her just to keep her secret from Demian? She has enough blackmail material to never need to worry about Demian. She could have just admitted to the affair and if he would have objected in any way, she would have brought up Lucia's murder.

8)And how is it possible that Rogelio was run over by a car several times, but suffered not a single fracture? He should have had multiple fractures, probably a crushed pelvis and spine and of course severe head trauma, not just some Frankenstein looking cuts and a loss of an eye.
And how was he physically able to assault Helena and Rafaela with such brutish force immediately after being discharged from the hospital?
I am not even going to comment on his facial injuries healing virtually overnight. I couldn't stop laughing at that. The only thing they didn't do as far as those scars are concerned is to move them to the other side of his face.
9)Why on earth would a Dutch tourist come to Mexico to work as a sex worker?! Dutch sex workers are very well protected, they have social security and very safe work conditions.If one's life came to the point where there is no other way but to become a sex worker, then the best country in the world to do this kind of work is no doubt The Netherlands. So why on earth would a Dutch national go to dangerous Mexico (and to Puebla at that) to practice the world's oldest profession when she can safely do it in her own country?
10) The mother of the Dutch tourist that came to Mexico to look for her daughter speaking nearly perfect Spanish. I guess it could happen, but it is very rare for Dutch people to speak Spanish.

Irene
 

Good to have you back, Irene. And don't worry about having fierce opinions -- for almost every one, you'll find plenty of company on the patio.

Unless you like Lety's kitty sweater, in which case you drink alone.

I pre-watched today's epi, but I'm worried about the slicing & dicing, so if someone watching in real time can tell me where the broadcast version ends, I'll release the recap (if it matches.)
 

Blue Lass, I actually find her kitty sweater kind of cute. I am more bothered by that psychedelic old lady blouse that Mariella used a couple of times. That one was hard to stomach.

Can't help you with today's episode, I will be (hopefully) watching it tonight.


Irene

 

Blue Lass, last scene: Fabrizio’s secretary wakks in on Renata and Fabrizio to tel him she is pregnant and threatens to tell all if she does not get what she wants.
 

Yay! Recap coming...
 

ANONYMOUS--- It was YOUR commentary that shocked me into this new reality of mine that I was becoming content ENOUGH with a great plot and interesting characters. I was not even aware of my transformation, and believe me--my previous "requirements" were embarrassingly tenacious. I was thinking maybe this new outlook related to maturity or aging or wisdom - LOL.

What also may have occurred is that after seeing la Pilota and noticing that everything on Univision appeared to be related to brutal CARTELS AND NARCO CRAP that I was just very grateful for a telenovela about something other than that. Unfortunately, the reality that some of my BIG TIME FAVORITES---mostly Fernando Colunga, was getting older and this might have been working below the surface---despite the botoxing and surgery (goodness knows by what order of magnitude!),
 

AMOT, sad to say but most of our favorites are past galán age at this point.
 

Thanks for that bunnycap blue lass.
Wow, you guys are hard on the galans.
But I agree,I can't stand a sorry man.

Especially when he is suppose to be In
Love with the woman of his dreams. He did Not even bother to find out why she was a no-show at their wedding. And to further screw up himself he gets in Fake love with a this scamming skank That's about to steal what's left of his fake dad's money from a company that has pretty much gone broke.
What's wrong with the men in this show?
Did carman adopt Mariela? And from who did she adopt her from.
Is Demwit married to rafi. In the open
Credits Sara comes up stairs and sees Demwit and rafie gettin it on, so he
Was cheating on Lucia with rafie? The
Ladies have really bad tast in men as
Far as looks go. Now looks aren't all
Things but just some things. Whatever.
This will be over soon and then we'll go To another tn where the galan is not Like they were back in the last century. Lookin forward to the recap.