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100 días para enamorarnos - cap. 3
I've now seen three episodes, and I still don't know all the characters' names and relationships. However, the main plot seems pretty clear.

In last night's episode, Remedios' father (played by Humberto Zurita) is upset about what he is going to say to people about Remedios' separation from Max after 18 years of marriage. (I immediately recognized Zurita as Epifanio Vargas from La Reina del Sur 1 & 2.) Remedios' daughter Ale and Connie's sons Daniel and Martin are also troubled by their parents' separations. To comfort Martin, Plutarco gives him a drone, something Martin has been very eager to have. Connie is not pleased. Plutarco then leaves with his 2 suitcases. Before long, Martin is running the drone all over the house. It finally crashes into his head, knocking him unconscious. A panicked Connie tries to call Plutarco but gets no answer. Why? Emiliano is trying to cheer up Plutarco by taking him to a bar where there are lots of good-looking women. One, Gloria, turns out to be someone Plutarco knew 5 years ago (huh?), and the unsubtle Gloria is hot to grab him now. She takes away his cell phone and places it in her dress next to her boobs (did I mention that she is unsubtle?). After a while, Plutarco is able to listen to his messages and learns that Martin has been taken to the hospital. Plutarco dashes off.

Plutarco has mentioned casually to Emiliano that Remedios and Max have separated. Apparently P has no idea of E's feelings for R. E texts R, telling her he knows that she has separated.

There are several other threads. Two-timing Luis tries to juggle his relationships with Jimena and Aurora. As he's driving his truck to go see Aurora, he texts her (I think) and crashes the truck. Dazed, he emerges from the truck, calls 911, and collapses before he can identify himself. Apparently they are able to trace his location, and we see him being rushed to the hospital. Someone tells him not to worry, his wife is on her way. He's puzzled. Aurora? No, Jimena arrives.

There's also a scene involving Fernando, Ale's Spanish teacher, and another man who is very attracted to Fernando and brings him coffee. I'm not sure who this other guy is. Is he related to one of the other characters?

Anyway, at the end of the episode, Remedios (she's a real estate agent?) is showing a house to prospective buyers at an open house. As she's finishing up and bidding them goodbye, Emiliano appears. He wants her to show him the bedrooms. She refuses, so they make do with where they are. The episode ends with them passionately embracing. Raise your hand if you're surprised. Me neither.
 

"100 Dias":

Humberto Zuria is good as an EVIL Antagonist.
 

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I gave up and dumped ALL of Cennet without watching even one. I seem to have developed a Netflix/Amazon Prime addiction and have been watching episodes of Longmire and Bosch.

But I have recorded 100 Dias and will try to catch up and see if it grabs me.

Thanks a million, Juanita, for your recaps, which I hope to enjoy once I've seen some of the show. As I may have mentioned, comic novelas are not my cups of tea, but my Spanish class is cancelled for spring quarter and who knows when it will resume. So I probably need to hear some Spanish.
 

100 dias. I believe that the man attracted to Fernando is Costanza's younger brother. I don't know. I'm mildly disappointed in this novela so far. Maybe too many details about Plutarco's packing up, and the scene between Remedios and Emiliano was pretty silly. Also there was a lot of sitting around tables discussing the situation. Ho hum. Gloria had been Plutarco's legal client 5 years earlier and he had gotten her a very good divorce settlement.
 

100 dias. In fact, all that sitting around the table discussing what was going on kind of reminded me of the kind of soap operas that my grandmother used to watch many years ago. The writers seemed to think that a lot of the viewers would miss episodes so they had characters rehash a lot of what had happened earlier in their conversations.
 

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SpanProf, MANY THANKS for answering my question about the man attracted to Fernando. I thought I remembered the guy telling someone how attracted to Fernando he felt, but I didn't remember who he was talking to. And I totally overlooked Gloria's having been Plutarco's client 5 years earlier. Duh.

As for sitting around the table, I didn't notice that as much, but it makes a certain amount of sense at the start of a novela, so that people who perhaps haven't seen episode 1 won't be totally at a loss. Whether the novela will continue that practice as it moves along is anyone's guess. I'm not wildly enthusiastic so far about this novela, but it's such a relief from La Doña 2 that I'm willing to stick with it.
 

100 dias. I liked tonight's episode a lot better than yesterday's. It seems to be picking up. Fernando is a very good teacher, but watching his high school class of easily-distracted adolescents made me glad I'd taught college Spanish. I hope something terrible happens to Remedios's creepy ex-boss. Costanza is right that she could probably sue. And she should make Emiliano pay up something too, since he had no business "crashing" the open house. Loved the encounter between Luis's 2 "wives." Of course they get along; they're both very nice women. I wonder if they'll team up eventually to get revenge against him. Another thing I loved was the "Behind the Camera" segment. It reminded me of "Betty en NY."
 

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SpanProf, I too enjoyed watching Fernando teach his Spanish class. I found myself thinking how much better that course was than any language course I had in high school. They read real literature, and Fernando spoke to them in Spanish.

And I loved the scenes with Luis and his two women. I was somewhat surprised, however, that Emiliano would express such surprise and puzzlement at Luis's situation. Emiliano admits to Luis that he doesn't understand how Luis could do this. Somehow, that seemed out of character for Emiliano. And of course I loved the scene where the two women literally run into each other and start comparing notes. Upon learning that Aurora is from Monterey, Jimena says that her husband goes to Monterey every weekend. What a coincidence, says Aurora. Her husband works in Houston during the week. Amusingly, Jimena refers to her husband as "mi Flaco," while Aurora refers to hers as "mi Gordo." And yes, I think at some point the two will figure things out and perhaps join forces to get revenge.
 

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Novelera, glad to see you are enjoying “Longmire”. I loved that show and Longmire.
 

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Jarifa: How's it going with the social distancing ?
 

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Jarifa,thanks for putting up a comment about our mutual love of Longmire. I have read every one of the books by Craig Johnson, actually I should say I have listened to them during my commute. The books have all been read by my favorite audio book reader: George Guidall. He IS Walt Longmire!

I was delighted with the television series and very sad when it went off the air. I am a very recent subscriber to Netflix. And the first things I watched were the seasons of Longmire that were picked up by Netflix. I actually preferred the representation of Victoria Moretti in the television version to that of the books. She's very profane and a bit unlikeable in the books, at least to me.
 

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