Caray, Caray!

Dueños del Paraíso returns Tuesday January 7, at 1p/12c.
 

"ESDLC":

Dondi356: Things just upped the ante even further!

1.) Ambar disguised as a cop ROFLOL. She pulls a gun on Valdes' henchman.

2.) Isturiz shows up & drives to an unknown destination as Ambar in the vehicle ahead of him drives off (the driver for Valdes Axis of Evil has a gun pointed at him).

3.) Ojeda & Dalia get freaky with another escapade.

4.) Luzma dreaming about Isturiz. This girl......

5.) Andrea & Super Javi get into a typical argument.

6.) Montalvo punches Diana in the stomach & gets super rough with her at the airport while her sidekick escapes & tells the Casillas family on what happened.

7.) Castillo goes ballistic when he learns that the cameras at Los Pinos had been disabled. He knows Mayra was murdered by BPN & Jaime.

He decides to head over to Los Pinos & confronting Gomez Labrador & Co.,

8.) Navarro gets scolded by Amado on what happened to Diana. He explains to Amado that he doesn't have jurisdiction.

9.) Navarro calls Castillo on the situation with Diana. Castillo blows him off.

10.) Carla gets annoyed with Castillo for some reason.

11.) Valdes & El Capo plotting more chaos.

12.) Jaime making out with his campaign manager. Yuck!

13.) Berenice shows up after shopping. She has no idea Jaime is on the DL!

14.) Rutila calls Berenice on the situation with Diana. Let's just say the conversation doesn't turn out well....

15.) Berenice nags & nags to Jaime.

16.) Amado, Izzy, Skinny & Co., decide it's time to break Diana out of custody.
 

Sultan

I've been watching the youtube versions starting with 10 and now on 15. They are a bit slower pace, more nuances, where nothing is said, and entire story lines Telemundo is cutting. I'm liking it.

"Kalfa: was a general term in the Ottoman Empire, for the women attendants and supervisors in service in the palace."

I've been avoiding Telemundo's version because they are ahead of me and it looks like New Years morning might be their last recording according to the schedule.

and what would be a day with out a good smirk from Hurrem?

anyone else?

 

Thanks, Alexander, for the info about the afternoon showing of Dueños del Paraíso.
 

LA DONA

YES… I AM LOVING the recaps form 2 years ago... I like the idea of prequel..?

I miss her and I even can stand SNOZEL the love interest.. its funny watching them make love and her hair stays in place..

I hope they give her A RED HOT LOVER .. this time... muss up her hair a little!!

LA DONA LA DONA!!!!!


 

Sultan

deb, I am watching on YouTube as well and enjoying it. I'm currently in the middle of #13. I plan to continue watching episodes when I can find the time. Too bad that Telemundo made a mess of this.

dondi356

 

Sultan

Dondi, only 126 episodes to go, ha!

a lot of the confusion on the Telemundo choppers is gone, as I've never heard Nigar Kalfa called by another name.

"Valide sultan was the title held by the "legal mother" of a ruling sultan of the Ottoman Empire. "

and some one-liners lay the story out, like Hurrem Hatun saying something like, there is no life behind these (palace) walls unless you are a man.

loved Ibrahim's trip home, but his return shows that with all the power and money he has, he is but a slave.

 

Decisiones #12

FYI, from the trailer, Friday's episode is clearly based on the Dee Dee and Gypsy Blanchard Munchausen by Proxy case that has been covered by several cable channels. I'll tune in because I'm a disfigured victim of such a monster mother who was ordered by priests to disfigure me to extort her way out of divorce or damnation. I've been trying to make authorities aware that this is a huge overlooked religion scandal.

-MCM
 

Sultan

Juanita and Novelera, sorry that I didn't specify that I'm watching OTA on the East Coast. Earlier this week (Wed. morning?), I woke up and was shocked to see El Sultan airing in the old movie slot without English captions. I won't be a regular watcher because the story is too complicated.

-MCM
 

Decisiones Correction #13 - Mother's Love

I didn't see the credits because they flashed so quickly, but I recognized Jeannette Lehr in the abusive mother's role (Patricia Arquette won an Emmy for the same part). Lehr played a nutty menacing sister-in-law in Mi Corazon Insiste and a school principal in Relaciones Peligrosas. The plot followed closely the actual murder case. It's always chilling for me to see actors playing roles similar to my nightmare life with my religious bully mother. Piper Laurie and Sissy Spacek in Carrie was the first example.

-MCM
 

"ESDLC":

Dondi356: The Casillas family plans to rescue Diana from custody.

1.) Colonel Alfaro still an uppity piece of SHIT & arrogant asshole.

2.) El Capo & Valdes forming an alliance along with Ojeda.

3.) No Chema appearance tonight.

4.) Jaime getting chewed out by Nagging Berenice.

5.) Berenice decides to go on either a shopping tour or heading to the DF suburbs.

6.) Carla calls Jaime for some exclusive interview. I think Jaime has deadly plans in store for her if Carla starts snooping around.

7.) Amado, Rutila, Izzy, Skinny & Co., set up a coordinated plan to get Diana out of custody & rescue the sexy Blonde.

8.) Colonel Alfaro still an uppity expletive.

9.) Ambar getting frisky with Isturiz as Luzma watches.

10.) Ambar & Luzma doing a tit for tat with jabs & insults.

11.) Joaquin & Violeta are here!

12.) Ojeda, El Capo & Dalila coordinating more chaos.

13.) Navarro busts the former Venezuelan Ambassador to Mexico, Caravan Chick & her kid.

14.) Navarro takes them to DEA HQ.

15.) Shootout occurs in the outskirts of the DF.

16.) Colonel Alfaro calls Castillo about the situation.

17.) Amado points his gun at Alfaro demanding Diana be released.
 

sultan

I'm watching the recordings of the middle of the night episodes. It's interesting that they're showing longer episodes than one hour. The one that came after Viktoria knocked over that candle while Suleiman's sons were playing a game was two hours long. It appears that each subsequent one has been an hour and a half.

I'm going to refrain from commenting because it appears that some of you are watching different time periods of what's been going on.

I can mostly tell when they've cut something. There was one whole discussion of one of the guys in the sultan's cabinet who'd been disgraced and they never showed what he did in the first place.

So, I'm accepting the crumbs Telemundo has given me And, in some ways, I'm enjoying these more than the hour long episodes. For one thing, they show either none at all or very little scenes from the one before. And they've done away with that thing that always bugs me about Telemundo's process: 1. Show scenes from the one before. 2. Begin the current episode, and 3. About 10 minutes into the episode play the theme song and views of cast members. I've hated that since forever. Why not just start with the theme song and characters and then show the episode?

And, back to the crumbs, I'm very grateful I'm getting to see this. I feel bereft with no TN to watch.

I watched the first episode of the refrito of La Doña and remembered that I had seen it before and gave up on the novela. I really like Aracely and have seen her in many novelas. I can't seem to get over the corruption of Doña Bárbara, one of my top 5 faves of all time. I was reading the novel in my Spanish class at the same time. Just an amazing coincidence. The novel, of course, written in 1929, had a lot less sex! And a lot more about the life of the vaqueros on the llanos.
 

telemundo

Just a reminder from the Telemundo y Más pages: "By common agreement, this group DOES NOT discuss previews, trailers, or any other plot information not found in a current or past episode of the current production. Spoilers WILL be removed by the admin." This definitely applies to the brief previews of La Doña2 that Telemundo has been airing. Please do not discuss any plot elements shown in these previews.
 

I'll wait until the recap of "La Dona 2" is posted on January 14th.
 

Sultan

I've noticed that Telemundo capítulo 19 begins at the same place as youtube 17 and ends at the same place as the end of youtube 18.