Caray, Caray!

Thanks, Anita. Your captions were great, especially "Ingrid and the Semi-Corpse" and "If It's 3:37 It's the Bert and Ingy Show".

Favorite lines included: "Alba is 100% into onesies, diapers, Johnson's baby shampoo, Gerber's spinach and daycare colds and fevers", "Frankenshteen" and the way you turned Julian's finest hour into his finest minute. The running vote tallies were great too!

Well, I for one, said some very un-ladylike expletives when Julian moved all of his limbs. I really thought he'd only have movement in that one finger and end up like Tio Salamanca in Breaking Bad who could only ring a bell with one finger. #@*^%!

Julieta's ex is a creep. He didn't even want to go in and say hi to Pedro. Julieta, choose Door #3!

More expletives when Natalia decided she'd marry Julian. Disgusting. At least we know Paolo will be alright as he gets use of his legs again and becomes a doctor. Oh wait, that's Te Doy La Vida.
 

Great recap Anita. That was a great way of describing Julian's finest miunte. I thought that was nats hand
But was shocked to see it was Jules own Tanned hand. That heffa was gonna Smother the poor schlub. He would not have been missed.

May loves his sane daughter more than his insane one. What a piece of work he is. Murdered his wife in front of his daughter. And the bitch don't care. He's perfect ingy. She's a nut to the 10th power. Just like him. And berti. And to make matters worse but #2 Is about to marry into the family by blackmail. What a Lovely family.Not

The craziness continues next week.
What worse.....these craycrays or the fact that the intire planet is shut down? Of course some are trying to come out.
Natty and julian sittin in a tree kiss
.....what the hell?

Thanks Anita

 

Nut #2 ^^^^&
 

Terrific title ANITA. "Talking Heads" indeed. Although I still have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that a cultured lawyer would decide dousing his wife with gasoline and setting her ablaze was the best way to get rid of an "inconvenient spouse. I know these horrors happen. It did here to a woman who suffered 12 months in the hospital before finally dying. Anyway, we finally have an answer to the "Did he or didn't he?" on Mauro.

I continue to find these characters so annoying. Natalia is just dumb. She looks like she's half-asleep all the time. Or suffered oxygen deprivation at birth.

And teenqueen Alba. What an idiot. Your friend who is unmarried and uninterested in marriage is stressing over being unexpectedly pregnant and all you can do is gush over what a blessing a baby is!? Clearly NOT in this case. Shut up and listen. Also, there's no problem with carrying boxes when you're only a few weeks pregnant. It's when you've very pregnant and the ligaments have loosened that you have to be careful. I did a lot of digging and gardening at 8 months along and boy, my back did NOT like it. Knew better on later pregnancies.

Loved your Vote Tally, your shoutouts to Mads, Bertie and the Widow Nat, Gotcha you old Geezer, Bertie, Franco and the Unreluctant Bride and Tizzy waltzes in on cue.

And as much as I hate the Gabriel/Julieta storyline, I howled when he brought up the example of Macron and his much-older, formerly his schoolteacher wife. Good Lord, let's not use the Frenchies in politics as our guidepost for conduct. They do seem to specialize in scandals over there. Which results in no more than a Gallic shrug. Come to think of it, very much like here lately.

Terrific recap of a mostly blah episode, other than when Julián grabbed Bertie's arm and scared the bejesus out of her. You're a pro, kid, thanks.
 

Good morning , all. I was just thinking that we have several states represented here on the patio...Calif, Tenn, Ohio, Pa, FL, NY, and Mass. Did I miss anyone. I guess most of us are dealing with trying to navigate through isolation and caution the best we can.

Anita, thanks for a bright spot in my day. I loved the details . These people are unbelievably stupid...but at least they allow us to thank our lucky stars that none are isolated in our own personal spaces.

What is Gael going to do when he discovers that he is going to be a papa??? ..and we know that he will. Gee, if he is that potent, I hope that he has not also impregnated the other chippy in that tripod.

Exactly how long was Rob gone ? Was that an overnight visit to adjust her meds.


 

OT...judyb...how is your hand ?
 

Susanlynn--Add Maryland to your list. It's about as Mid-Atlantic as it can get.
Rob was gone three weeks--long enough for her to fool her caretakers. And she's been there before so she knows the drill. Behave and you get out.

RLO--Read your comment before I went to bed. The last sentence set me off on a giggle/guffaw fest. We can always count on you for some clever levity.

Nina--"That heffa was gonna Smother the poor schlub. He would not have been missed." He would have missed a paycheck, though. I bet they paid him through the end of the tn. It would be great payback for him to be alive to watch Nat and Pao finally get together--but will WE care?

JudyB--"She looks like she's half-asleep all the time. Or suffered oxygen deprivation at birth." Me thinks she's just bored with her script and her galan. She's always having to look down on him. The only time she seemed animated was during the train track scene and that was a little OTT.

 

Anita – thank you or your snarktastic recrap. I loved your tally of votes(!) and chapter titles. :-D

I look forward to watching (or FFWDing→ thru) this episode today while I sew a few more cloth face masks. My sewing guild is having a virtual sewing retreat via Zoom, instead of at the local state park (usually a weekend getaway), and our next meetup is after lunch. I've got to get busy for show and tell. ;-)


My faves in addition to some already mentioned:
“Frankenshteen”
-- and would that be the pronunciation from Mel Brooks’ movie Young Frankenstein? ;-)

“ If it’s 3:37, It’s the Bert and Ingy Show”


“She puts her hands over his nose and mouth just like a properly fitting mask.”
---because that is just so zeitgeist, Anita.

“ The Mental Retrograde Resuscitates and Scares the sh** out of Bertie”
--- I can't wait to see this.


“He thinks another cardiac arrest is just what the doctor ordered.”
I do, too …. a real one (cardiac arrest) this time, plz.

OT --- AMORES VERDADEROS

And then today I'll get caught up on my backlog of 2 or 3 episodes of AV, which is a far better telenovela than MDC in so many ways.

I forget who mentioned the parallel of the story line with AV and MDC about main male protag falling in love with unknown half-sister, but that one had not escaped me, either, nor both female characters being daughters of the same actor who was/is Anibal Balvanera/Mauro Monroy. Having a Soggy Paula/Soggy Paulo is too much coincidence, too.

Too bad we don't have Big Ed and shower scenes in MDC. ~sighs~
 

SUSANLYNN...I think Rosemary lives in Utah, no?
 

" At least we know Paolo will be alright as he gets use of his legs again and becomes a doctor. Oh wait, that's Te Doy La Vida."

And there was William Levy becoming an eye surgeon (he was a psychiatrist) so he could operate on Maite Perrone's eyes and keep her from going blind in Cuidado con el Angel. ~massive eye roll~ ☺

 

OT...doris, my friend Carol is attempting to make a face mask for her brother. I can on!y handsew . I have bandanas and hub's hankies, so I guess i will try to figure out What to do with them . I haven't been anywhere in a month, but I have a meeting that I have to go to next Friday , so I have to fashion some kind of mask. Weird times.
 

Susanlynn--RE: masks. Find the Surgeon General's video for making a simple face covering out of a hankie and two rubber bands. No sewing required. It served me well (I used one of my father's fine cambric handkerchiefs) until I was able to procure one from one of many seamstresses in our town who are making them for the general public. It's quite stylish. I wore it to the Post Office and upon seeing many others in use, realized I was wearing it upside down. Juarever. I'll know for the next time.

Doris, JudyB et al. How about Dr. Rios in TdA (Cesar Evora), who showed up suddenly and then seemed to be a specialist in anything that came up. We "teased" him about his multiple degrees and abilities.

Doris--Indeed it was Young Frankenstein I was channeling. My son was a young teenager when it came out and before long, he could deliver long pieces of dialog, complete with the accents. It was a hoot. I still get it out and rewatch it on DVD, often just to recall my son's imitations. I bet the tn writers would never think of giving us a surprise ending like that one! MDC certainly deserves more than they are giving and more than we are getting.

 

Gracas,Anita. Many bons mots.

Ingrid, bribing a doctor is the lowest thing ever, but you know all about that, don't you?

Alba, there are people out there who really aren't interested in having children. Save your advice for those who do.

Natalia, Ingrid is just as toxic as your mother. Don't ever believe a word either says.

Julián, I have difficulty deciding whom I hate more, you or Roberto.

Julieta, you deserve better than this guy. There is a single lawyer we can introduce you to....

Anonymous Doctor, you should lose your license for this.

Gael, don't drop the ball on this one.

Paolo, do you really want to marry into this cuna de locos?

Dante, you are the only voice of reason here.

Franco, you don't share that with Dante because you are still crazy enough to fall for Roberta's tricks.

Mauro, why don't you tell Franco the truth about why you changed your mind about Alba? And you have also just seen that three weeks in the manicomio did nothing for Roberta.

Valentina, be prepared to lose this friendship when Nat finds out you are on her mother's payroll.

Mauro, what didn't we see in the flashback?

The flashback only showed a close-up of the 9-year-old Roberta's face. We did not see Mauro spread gasoline or light the match and no matter how much he had dealt with in a marriage to a woman as insane as Roberta now is I don't think he would have been so foolhardy to risk doing this in a place where Roberta would see it. As for Mauro "confessing" I can see him saying this just to move on in the conversation and get to where he needed it to be, as he had no way of knowing that Tizzy was just outside the door. He knows the power that such evidence can have in court.

As to whom I now hate more, it's Roberta. She has no desire to get better, uses her mental illness as a weapon, fakes being normal to get out of the manicomio, has no compunction about murder, and truly must despise her daughter to allow her to suffer in the name of preserving a family image that is completely false. She gaslights Natalia in a way that could make her suicidal and is pushing her to marry a man who will certainly abuse her. That is all opposite what any mother should be.
 

"cuna de locos" --- Good one, Urban. You might be on to Mauro 'saying this just to move on int he conversation' might be a good theory.

I just finished watching this episode. Those people exhaust me. I cannot wait to get them out of my life.
 

OT - AMORES VERDADEROS

On a brighter(?) note, I saw our "Ernesto Cifuentes" from Hijas as one of the kidnappers.
;-P
 

Doris, it was me who was comparing Mauro and Anibal from AV. I wish I'd been there in real time watching AV with you guys. I really like this show and there are so many (some unintentional) funny things I would have loved to share laughs about. This last episode had Anibal coming down a single person elevator in his condo carrying his tennis racquet! He can't walk down a flight of stairs, but he can go volley?

Yes, UA, that whole flashback didn't really answer many questions. My bleeding heart does ache for the little girl who was Young Roberta. Hopefully, they'll add to that flashback and we can see just who lit the match. It could have been Roberta herself, and Mauro has chosen to protect her. Remember The Bad Seed?

Now that we've gotten the gist of this show, which part do you think was originally slated for Angelique Boyer? And, boy, I bet she's breathing a sigh of relief that she passed on it.
 

AB is not old enough to be Alba or Roberta. So that leaves Ingrid or Natalia?
 

I think she was intended to be Natalia. She and DC look like mother and daughter.
 

I thought AB was supposed to be Alba. Alba married very young and got pregnant immediately. Therefore she is 33, 34 or at most 35. In other words, there's about a 20 year gap between her age and Franco's.
 

UA...I put what I remembered, in a rather haphazard way, on the VIDA line. Perhaps Niecie or Jarifa will clean it up.
 

Thanks, Judy.
 

RLO--Re AV
"I wish I'd been there in real time watching AV with you guys. I really like this show and there are so many (some unintentional) funny things I would have loved to share laughs about."

Share away. I'm rewatching AV daily and revisiting the Caray recaps and comments. We really expressed how we felt about Nelson Brizz and the sizzle between the Angel and Ms. Vikki. (That tells you something about the average age of the watchers!)

I don't think MDC will mind if we add a few fresh comments about AV to delight us all, especially with the Anibal/Mauro comparison.
 

OT - AMORES VERDADEROS

It's hard to wrap my brain around the fact that Nicandro Díaz González was the executive producer of this and .... HIJAS. 😳
 

Now that I'm looking closer, I don't think Paolo turns into the walking doctor on Te Doy La Vida. It's a lookalike. Poor Paolo is destined to keep throwing his ball against the wall.

RE: AV I love the sizzle between Angel and Ms. Vikki. Now I want to see them in that other one they starred in together when they were much younger. Then I may as well add wanting to see Juan Soler and Daniela Castro in Canaveral back in the day. Do I remember someone saying that Cuando Me Enamoro was based on Canaveral?
 

RLO - CME was based on La Mentira with Guy Ecker in the Juan Soler role. I watched the chopped up version of La Mentira. It was hard to follow, not having seen the original tn, even having seen CME. I loved CME, mostly because of Silvia Navarro and some very well drawn characters, especially the baddies.

FLASH—SORTILEGIO IS BACK???? In perusing the on-screen schedule for this coming week (since it is royally screwed up), I noticed that Unimas is going to start broadcasting Sortilegio from 12-2, at least on Monday. The rest of the week just indicates TBA, but the slot is from 12-2. In my opinion, this is William Levy at his best.
 

OT. - SORTILEGIO

I remember that one. Sweet William and the female lead had some nice chemistry. And .... Monica Miguel was the director 👍🏻.
 

Now is the time for Uni to bring back Alborado and Amor Real..my favs and Fernando at his best.
 

Aye aye, Susanlynn--We need some pirates, the mystery boinker of Santa Rita and Dr. Dreamy Bastardo, Carla Estrada and Monica Miguel. Sortilegio will do for now. Levy was partnered with Jacqueline Bracamontes. I loved almost all of it. It jumped the rails for me when they introduced the twin, but there wouldn't have been as long a story without that element.
 

That was a great story ANITA, with the Stairway of Death and David Zepeda and Sweet William wrestling on it. I particularly remember Zepeda bright yellow undies. And no, not nearly as good as Alborada or Amor Real, but still...pretty good. And Ana Brenda in one of her first roles (for me anyway) as a snotty socialite girl.
 

OT -- SORTILEGIO

Ugh..l two hour episodes. That knocks it off my watch list. MDC and AV are about all I can manage right now. Though I could make room for Amor Real if there was a patio watcharty and one-hour episodes. And that is only because NHL playoffs season is kaput. 😕
 

OT-SORTILEGIO, ETC.
Oh, Doris, I'll miss you. I plan to save the episodes and watch on weekends, in between Modus, A Place to Call Home and The Crimson Field. I watched Sanditon and what a surprise unhappy ending. How could Andrew Davies do that to us, Jane Austen fans.
 

Anita!!! Sorry I wasn't able to check in sooner. When things go sideways under quarantine, they go way sideways -- the last event involved a time-sensitive veterinary appointment, a husband with a swollen ankle, and a high-wind advisory. I think I need a two-week nap.

Anyway, I loved the vote tally -- so clever! And "Random guy is Pedro’s father" sounds like a good t-shirt slogan, if I ever take off the MANICOMIO NOW number (thanks, UA) I've been wearing for the last two weeks.
 

P.S. Angelique was slated for the Natalia role. I can't picture it myself, but I guess I'm just used to Weeping Beauty at this point.