Caray, Caray!

Vaca sagrada! Can't wait to watch! Did she really say "like a broken refrigerator"? Or was that you? :D

P.S. Katia asked the prison guard for a pen and wrote Pao's number on Rufino's hand.
 

Loved your shoutout to the Tressy doll from the 60's, DORIS. You're right, the sudden appearance of long locks on Roberta was just weird. And neither Alba nor Franco looked startled at the change in her appearance. Huh? We viewers sure were.

Any interactions with Paolo have gotten so boring, I focus instead on what he's eating. I've noticed telenovelas are really good about product placement when it comes to fruits and veggies. There's usually a bounteous display of both. For Paolo, he was cutting into some large piece of fruit and there was more in the basket on the table. YES, THIS IS WHAT I FOUND INTERESTING ABOUT THE SCENE--SORRY WRITERS!

Did writhe quite a bit when Roberta was terrorizing the poor maid into lying for her. And was also distracted by Natalia's lighter roots when she was listening to the maid's hesitant lies. Again, distracted by hair roots rather than getting caught up in the scene because...well...boring.

On the other hand, horrified when Lic. Nosehair squeezed Bertie's injured hand to make his point. Yikes. Remember when we thought her pleas of parental cruelty were all made up? Guess not.

And yes, Blue Lass, "unplug like a refrigerator" was in the script. Roberta's cruel words. Although our Doris is so clever, she certainly could have written them as well. Still, for Alba to whale off and belt Bertie, what with the damaged hand, is just going to play into the abuse grounds in the divorce case. Finding all this extremely unpleasant right now.

BUT BIANCA AND GAEL...YEAH! AND THEY'RE OFF AGAIN WHILE ALBA MINDS THE CAFE. DOUBLE YEAH.

DORIS...You're right, Franco does seem to be a good kisser. But I don't care. I do not like this couple. Show me some Gael-Bianca smooching and maybe I'll stop looking at fruit bowls and hair follicles.
 

Bien hecho, Doris. My faves:

The wicked witch of Mexico was pleased.

Next, we see Ingrid at Tizzy’s penthouse in a high-rise condo. I’m fully expecting him to mack on her, but he is all business.

I guess no nookie for them until ultimas capitulos or after this show ends.

You bet on that last one or why were booth of them in PJs? They're acting like an old married couple already.

Short, or long, or in between
Tressy's hair makes her a queen.
In Roberta's case...NOT.

Natalia, don't fall for your mother's histrionics.

Alba, don't let Ingrid get your goat again. Let her make an ass of herself.

Tizzy, How can you be such an idiot? In case nobody told you yet, Ingrid is loca. However, since you don't see Roberta's crazy, I understand perfectly. So go to an ophthalmologist.

Mauro, we're just as impatient as you, but you're a lawyer and should understand that a strand without a follicle isn't enough.

Katia, you and Julian deserve each other because you're two of a kind. You dropped Paolo when he ended up in a wheelchair and Julian is trying to silence you so he can marry and imprison Natalia whom he does not love for advancement he doesn't merit.

Marmara, look for another job now. Your mistress is insane and extremely dangerous. You could do time for perjury for what she is making you do.

Roberta, I hope you will enjoy watching your daughter in a manicomio because what you are doing to her could land her in one. That is much worse than anything that will ultimately happen if she tells the truth to her father... or yours. Not to mention threatening a helpless maid if she doesn't lie about the damage to your hand.

Natalia, I hope you noticed that the maid didn't look you in the eye.

Tizzy, nice bachelor pad, but it would serve you right if you fell for Ingrid and she bled you dry.

Franco, there is a nasty surprise waiting for you and who takes chances going to Acapulco?

Roberta, taking a handful of pills would be doing your family a serious favor right now. BTW, that long wig won't get Franco back. You still look like distressed merchandise.

Bianca, somehow I don't think it's Gael you're in love with.

Alba, anytime before this I could understand the slap, but now you have gotten yourself into deep merde.
 

Doris, thank you so much for describing all the horrors that played out last night.

Rob is hard to watch. She was horrifying as she was terrorizing that poor maid. She creeps me out when she holds her mangled, bandaged longnailed hand up in front OF her face. It looks like a claw. icky

Ot..well, my groceries were delivered today , and I sat on The floor OF my foyer wiping each wiping each item off with a Clorox wipe. What a surreal time.
 

"Natalia, I hope you noticed that the maid didn't look you in the eye."
Urban - Nat has been around so much crazy all her life, and now with Julian, she wouldn't recognize 'normal' behavior if it smacked her in the face.
 

susanlynn --- to paraphrase Willy Shakespeare, 'Clorox wipes! Clorox wipes! My kingdom for some Clorox wipes!'
(seriously)
I can't find those things anywhere online.

We left all the grocery store items that came in cardboard boxes to sit on the dining room table for 2-3 days (COVID19 supposedly does not live long on cardboard...fingers crossed) and then sparsely used our small one-tub stash of Clorox wipes on the items in plastic or cans.

And to think, four weeks ago I picked up that tub from a multi-layer grocery store stack on display, thinking "this might be a good idea" when I could have bought several. Ah, hindsight. (24 hours later, after all pro sports events were suspended, nobody had any because people realized "this is serious!"
 

Roberta was truly ghastly in that. To me she felt almost like another incarnation of Erzebet Bathory. That poor maid. And to me her damaged hand looked like it belonged to a two-toed sloth.

>Doris, you must be right. Natalia is probably used to crazy and may not know what normal is.
 

Doris: They need to rename this Telenovela to "The Roberta Show".
 

And we now see why this show, Juan Soler or not, is in an afternoon time slot.

Your recap was way better than the actual show, Doris. I loved how you used all those #s, and "sounds like your tn beanie hat is securely on your head where it needs to be". "Tizzy gets busy..." Doris, Poet Laureate 2020!

We'll have to see Roberta's hair tomorrow to see if those were clip in extensions, or if she spent some time between crying in bed and raging at her husband's office in a salon chair.

I wish Alba hadn't hit her. That parting look on Roberta's face made me feel so sad. She looks like an adult version of the abused girl she used to be.


 

Rosemary la Otra...I too wish Alba hadn't hit her. That was just an ugly scene. True, the ugly things Roberta said were maddening. But Alba is supposed to be the heroine--BETTER than the villain. Instead she looked just the same in that scene.
 

Alba slapping Roberta was probably a plot propeller. Berta can now justify (in her twisted mind) going for the jugular.

R la O - you are so riiight about why this show is in the daytime slot.
 

That was ugly, indeed. That was why Roberta provoked her. Fortunately there is no witness who would bring this up so this would be irrelevant if this divorce goes before a judge. However, I don't think it will because Roberta's constant "till death do us part" is an indicator that this will be the case.
 

Doris--Exceptional coverage. And your Roberta Steals Most of Today's Show was well put. It caught my eye and off we went! Thank you.

Alba does have a quick hand. She's also slapped Ingrid and Gabe. Didn't she also slap Franco early on? (Not interested in wading through early episodes. Let's just get this one over with and move on.)

It seems Julian, Mau, Tizzy, Bertie and Ingrid are holding all the cards right now. When oh when are our passel of dunces going to wake up to all the intrigue. No one needs to answer that it was rhetorical. We know when--when it can't get any worse.

Nat seems to be the one closest to assuming responsibility for her actions until she rubs up against Julian or her mother.

Katia's pleas to run away to Paris were pathetic.

Loved that Ingrid's little declaration to Julian that she'll have Mau eating out of her hand by tomorrow morning didn't work.

JudyB--I, too was fascinated by what Pao was slicing at the table. Whatever was in the basket looked like some lovely fresh buns. The one Pao had seemed to have a hollow where a big seed had been. It wasn't a mango, that's too messy. It wasn't an avocado, it wasn't green enough. Any guesses?

Susanlynn--The image of a claw jumped into my mind, too. Those white nails against the purple skin---but I wondered why the whole hand, including the fingers weren't bandaged. And is that the way you bandage a broken hand these days? Where's the sling? Hmmm. I think she acted as her own emergency physician. The way she had her hand tied up, that middle finger is always sticking out!
 

Hello, all.

Anita, yes, it does look as though Rob is giving one and all the finger as she holds that weird hand up like a badge of honor...dishonor ???

TOday, our weather alternates between gray skies, rain and wibd, and sunshine.

I am thawing my homemade spaghetti sauce from the freezer because my family is going to have a virtual dinner tonight together as we all day spaghetti via Duo.

I found some old dvds of" Destilando Amor" that hub recorded for me years ago . He labeled them in Black marker in his heavy handwriting "Mex. Soap. ".... so Hub.
 

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but I "enjoy" spending an hour with Gov. Cuomo more than I've been enjoying MDC. Ok, well, MDC has visible villains and non-working attorneys, but the jails are still operating.
 

Oh, Susanlynn, that's so comforting. Awhile ago, I found some handwritten letters of my mother's and it brought back floods of good memories. I feel sorry for Nat, who won't have that or, if she married Julian, won't have that either.

We had a thunderstorm roll through and the sun is out, windy, and I'm going to do a little gardening in the mud.

My GrandDIL arranged a Family Happy Hour, complete with wine, for a Zoom meeting this evening. This will be my first. I don't know. Sometimes I'd rather NOT be seen and only BE heard. Will let you know how it goes.
 

Anita - the nice thing about Zoom meetings is we don't have to wear pants, just a nice top. Unless you get up and walk around the room. LOL

Susanlynn - I love that you doing those old DVDs. It's like Hubs is visiting you in spirit. 🥰
 

Anita...I was able to get Governor Cuomo’s press conference live through my digital WaPo subscription and I can see why you’re such a fan. Certainly the clearest (yet tactful) explanation of how the federal government should be operating these days. He’s smart, he’s factual, he’s informed and he tells it straight. What a breath of fresh air in spite of his refusal to sugarcoat anything. We sure need more of that!
 

JudyB--So glad you tuned in. Our governor has also given press conferences, but I haven't tuned in. Yet I was actually impressed with his appearance on The Rachel Madow Show last week, I think. He did as much as he could and is continuing to do to prevent the spread. Our county now has the highest numbers of cases and deaths, I think because of its proximity to very densly populated Washington, DC and its suburbs.

As Nina says, stay safe and sanitize.
 

OT..just talked to my sister for an hour. she is upset. Her 2 daughters work in nursing homes which are starting to have cases and deaths. Like my friend Pat whose niece is a nurse, they take their clothes off in the garage and put them in washing machine before taking a long, hot shower. Pat's niece is going to be transferred from a different hospital in the state that needs help. What a time we are living through!
 

My (hopefully) soon to be Daughter-in-Law is also a nurse and she shared a picture of herself with a big plastic face shield. It broke my heart. Even though Cuomo is brutally honest and it certainly isn't good news, I take comfort in his press conferences as well. He's quite the leader.

I didn't notice Roberta's middle finger, but I'll certainly take note now. I'm sure they all got a chuckle out of making it look like that.
 

Don't any of us forget that our Princess JuJu is on the West Coast, gets home later than any of us in other time zones, so we must wait patiently for her to settle down and GET TO IT! Suerte amigas (and any amigos that also stop by).
 

There are a zillion security issues about Zoom, so be careful.
 

Before sitting down to watch today's episode, I rewound yesterday's. I watched the Mau-Bertie, hand-squeezing scene. My but he's a sadist. But I also heard him say he gave her everything, she lacked for nothing--then he squeezed telling her to get all those wrong ideas out of her head. CrockPot Theory: What if it was really Bertie that set fire to her own mother. She doesn't need much of a reason not to. Well, it's probably nothing, but I wanted to get it off my mind. She caved immediately and started sniveling. We need MORE on this backstory....
 

UA--About Zoom, my GrandDIL says they have addressed the issue, requiring a group password to join a conversation, making it at least a little harder to hack in. However, I did take note of the earlier cases of porn ZoomBombing.
 

My gut is saying that the writers are pulling their usual deal of not deciding what to do about this until the last minute. This often makes the whole story make less sense.
 

"There are a zillion security issues about Zoom, so be careful."
Urban A is right. It is up to the "moderator" to know what they are and have the settings locked down tightly. And changing the password for each get-together helps, too.


ANITA - I have often wondered if it really was Roberta who torched her mother.
Hopefully, by the Por Fin, we will know.

 

Anita, Just had a wonderful book club meeting and discussion on Zoom today. It went flawlessly. Enjoy your get together!
 

I thought it was settled earlier about Mauro killing his wife when he said to Roberta once, "why did you have to be there to see that"? I think she was going on with her Daddy harassing tirade.

But the I intriguing question is whether he killed her because she got pregnant with Roberta or his amante got pregnant with Alba?