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I wonder how law enforcement authorities are handling things ?
 

100 días

Lunes

Humberto Zurita as Ramiro does a great acting job. My back started to hurt along with him. Emiliano is very kind to him.

Jimena tells Luis, if I understood correctly, that tonight is not the correct night to make un Luisito, so she puts him off until the next night. Ese sinvirgüenza takes it well, says he has to work, and bounces off to Aurora’s hotel!

Ramiro asks Remedios if Ale will sacar la machorra someday and she tells him no.

In the morning Luis sends Aurora off in some van for a guided tour of Houston, but tells the driver to take her to other towns. [I've never visited Houston, but I have the impression you have to go a loooong way to get out of town.]

It’s the afternoon of “Open Class”, which turns out to be a Talent Show. Marlene swans around being especially insulting to Connie.

Reme can’t come to Open Class because she has to go to Ramiro’s auto shop and work so he can rest.

At school Ale tells Danny that Emiliano did not run off and leave her mother; he never knew there was a baby coming.

While Reme is under a vehicle [What? No lift?], a guy named Hector shows up, saying that Ramiro is the only one he trusts with “his baby”. He jokes that she dumped him 20 years ago and he’s doing well except for a few divorces.

While they’re in the audience Plutarco keeps getting texts from Sol.

Aurora texts Luis and Jimena that this tour is going on forever and she can’t make the show. Luis grins.

I’m not sure if Marlene did it on purpose, but the group number was changed from La Bamba, for which Martín had rehearsed, to La Cucaracha. He stands there frozen until Plutarco gets up and starts singing the words, getting his son started. Then Martín does quite well.

Reme fixes Hector’s carburetor. He’s amazed and says he’s going to send a bunch of guys to the shop to be her customers.

When Emiliano comes to check up on Ramiro, he tells him to stay away from Reme and Ale.

Aurora catches on that she’s far from Houston and yells at the driver. The driver is fed up and says he’s bringing her to the school.

Aurora arrives after the performance. Luis sees her coming in and flees.

Plutarco and Connie, flush with parental pride, end up kissing.

Luis drags Plutarco off to Emiliano’s apartment, while Jimena shows Aurora around the school. This is the first Plutarco has heard of Luis’ double life and he’s aghast. Both guys tell Luis he has to tell the two women.

The Spanish teacher (forgot his name) comes to Pablo’s tasteful apartment for dinner. Pablo makes an offhand remark about his having had a failed career as a decorator in which he spent more than he earned.

While the Three Amigos are talking in Emiliano’s apartment, Sol arrives. She’s hysterical because Plutarco didn’t return her calls. He tells her Danny loves her and this between them is over. Uh oh! She says she wanted things with them to be good, but now it will be bad.

Emiliano comes to the auto shop to bring Reme dinner and finds her having a beer with Hector. He appears a bit jealous. She confronts him. Why are you back here after all these years, and what do you want with me?
 

100 dias. Wonderful recap, novelera! You are right about Houston! I have a daughter who lives there, and it does seem to go on and on--but there are some really nice neighborhoods, great restaurants, great shops, including 2 bookstores within walking distance of her townhouse. Great scene of Plutarco rescuing Tincho from humiliation! Btw, what is an "Open class"? Do they mean "Open house"? Remedios seems to have a meaningful career--she seems to be a gifted mechanic, her father owns a garage, and at his age and physical ailments is probably in need of more help. I hope she comes to realize that working there permanently might be her best option. If this novela weren't a comedy, Sol could be really dangerous. She is starting to seem like an out and out psycho! Kind of like a Lifetime movie.:)











 

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Thanks for the kind words, SpanProf. I also was baffled by the "Open Class" thing. Maybe this is when writers, born in Latin America, try to move events in other countries to the US and those of us born here go: Huh? I also thought: "Was that it?" I thought Connie had signed on to do something major, perhaps graduation, prom, etc.

I must confess that the dialog often escapes me. More than any novela I've seen these characters talk over each other. And Remedios speaks so fast I keep backing up and listening again. But she's a fine comic actress and I enjoy her in this role.

Well, as we veteranos know, there has to be a plot device to keep the protagonists separated until the last week. So Sol is probably it. And, yes, she went from a manipulative but rather sweet girl to a bunny boiler rapidly.
 

100 dias. Novelera: :)

 

"100 DIAS":

SpanProf: Good Morning. How far will this female psycho go in upping the ante ?
 

100 dias. Steve: They seem to have walked it back a bit on last night's episode, when Sol told Connie that she didn't love Daniel and was interested in an older man, but she didn't say that it was Plutarco she loved. Oh well, I guess this is one of the ways they draw out the number of episodes.
 

100 dias. The whole Luis and his 2 wives theme is getting a bit tiresome, and the ways he keeps them from knowing they have the same "husband" are more and more contrived.
 

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SpanProf, I agree that the Luis and his two wives theme is getting rather ridiculous, but I guess that's the nature of farce. I confess that I laughed at the scene where both were talking to him on the phone at the same time.

No time to say more right now. I went to a ZOOM funeral this morning and am about to attend a memorial gathering for the same person in a few minutes, again via ZOOM.
 

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I completely agree that they're wearing us out with the Luis/Jimena/Aurora scenes. And I'm also tired of his wolfish grin when he fools one of them again.

Another interesting development was Pablo and Connie's mother (Mónica??) being completely accepting of Pablo and Fernando obviously having spent the night together. She even said the former boyfriend was a horror. And in the same episode they showed Ramiro still not ready to accept Ale's sexual identity.

And, yes, Sol didn't completely spill the beans to Connie. But I think that was because Plutarco sent her some sort of text while she was sitting there. Once more, I HATE plot developments by text. For one thing, my TV fits in my antique entertainment center, so not very big. And, if I really need to know what a text says, I have to get off the sofa and approach the TV across the room.

They showed Emiliano being a very good doctor to a woman with incipient preeclampsia. I had a co-worker who had that during a pregnancy and it was awful! They also had a bit of a PSA about her being, IIRC, undocumented and alone in the US.

And how can Connie possibly resist Emiliano?
 

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I'm afraid I miss too much of the dialogue to offer a recap, but I can mention some aspects of tonight's episode to get the conversation started. I hope that other people will add to what I've said and correct any errors.

At the hospital, Emiliano encounters a young man asking about a woman who was there to give birth. Emiliano assures him that there were problems but everything is OK. The guy says he's the father, but he asks Emiliano not to tell the woman that he was here. He doesn't feel ready to be a father; he doesn't even have a job, so how can he be a father? He thinks it's best if he just disappears. This, of course, rings all kinds of bells with Emiliano. He takes the young man, Luis, aside (why does he have to have the same name as bigamist Luis?) and urges him not to leave. He asks him to imagine how he'd feel if he disappears and, 20 years later, his daughter appears. And what's to say that when he returns, she'll accept him? Emiliano tells him that sooner or later he'll find a job, and he should take advantage of this opportunity to be a father. A short while later, Emiliano comes to see the new mother and tells her someone is here to see her. Luis is standing at the door with a bouquet of flowers.

We also see bigamist Luis trying to deal with Aurora. She clearly intends to stay in Houston. She tells Luis that she wants him to go with her to look at apartments that she has found. Also, she reminds him that she has only 6 months to be legal in the US [I'm not sure what she means.] She tells him they have to get married, they have to put Nico in school. [Will doing this within 6 months automatically make her here legally?] Needless to say, Luis isn't pleased.

There's a scene at the car repair shop where Ramiro again starts criticizing Ale's being attracted to other women. Remedios tells him that he should stop giving Ale a hard time. He should either accept her as she is or the two of them will leave his house. He mutters a complaint to another man about the empowerment of women.

All seems to be going well with Connie and Plutarco. They agree to do away with the 100 days contract and they kiss. Viewerville is aware, of course, that it's much too early in the novela for this to happen. Sure enough, while they're having a great time at lunch, Stalker Sol arrives at the law firm looking for Plutarco. He comes back from lunch, she grabs him, he tries unsuccessfully to push her away, and just as Connie walks through the door Sol is holding on to him and yelling that she doesn't want Danny, she wants him. Connie is horrified. Plutarco tries to tell her it's not what it sounds like, but Connie wants nothing to do with him. "Don't touch me!" she says. Later, when Plutarco arrives home, he sees Vicky, the housekeeper, moving out all his belongings.

Fernando's ex-wife, whose name I don't remember, seems unwittingly attracted to gay men. She asks Fernando about Pablo. She finds him attractive and wants to know whether he has a novia or a wife. Oops.
 

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Thanks so much, Juanita. I know it's sometimes hard to understand, especially since they seem to talk over each other, but you definitely were able to do a fine recap.

If I'd been eating I would have choked on it when Luis was telling Jimena he couldn't understand how Plutarco could do such a thing. And their marriage has no secrets!

And earlier, in the office, the insufferable Jimena says to Connie that what happened was because of the separation for 100 days, and that she and Luis would never have done such a thing because their marriage is fabulous (or words to that effect). My sympathies are with Aurora, and I can't wait for Luis to be "outed".
 

100 dias. I was disappointed that Connie wasn't willing to listen to Plutarco's explanation. As a divorce attorney and well-qualified lawyer, you would think she might have recognized Sol's stalker-like behavior. However, if she had, the novela would have ended right there--and that would make for an incredibly short tn.
 

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Thanks very much, novelera, for your kind response to my predicament. As for Luis, sometimes I think he actually believes what he says when he says it, no matter how outlandish. Self preservation seems to be his watchword. And Jimena is both smugly self-righteous and utterly clueless. I too can't wait until she learns the truth about her perfect marriage.

SpanProf, I too was disappointed that Connie adamantly refused to listen to Plutarco's explanation. But yes, as you say, it's much too early for the novela to end. I wonder, however, how much longer I will continue to say that. ;-)
 

100 dias. Btw, Max's band kind of reminds me of Wilco, which was on Stephen Colbert last night.
 

So excited someone is recapping this. I don’t have time to watch every episode. I haven’t watched a novela in years and haven’t been back to this site in years. I used to recap here for a while to learn Spanish. I started watching this show because it was recommended in of all places the New York Times.
 

Juanita, do you watch with closed captions on? I do. They’re in Spanish. That’s the only way I can keep up.