Caray, Caray!

TELEMUNDO/OT:

SpanProf: Is "Enemigo" going to air Season 2 anytime soon ?
 

100 dias. Steve: No idea. We see that Connie is toning down her reaction to Plutarco's relationship with Sol, and is more willing to believe Plutarco's story. She still seems to want a divorce, though. And thank goodness, the housekeeper salvaged all of Plutarco's pictures. Looks as if Luis's house of cards is about to collapse around his ears. Missing 3 days of work, Luis? Not a good idea!
 

100 días

SpanProf, I think of Jimena as an airhead, but I guess she does have a brain in there somewhere. When one person (Luis' boss, I think) told her he'd missed 3 days of work, and that was grounds for dismissal, she called another number, hoping she'd get to speak to Luis or at least learn that he was at work. Alas, if I understood the Spanish correctly, the second person told her that Luis hadn't been there in weeks. That quite understandably sends Jimena into orbit. Looks like her immunity to the separation disease may be ending. (And to think that the only problem Jimena thought Luis had was his erectile disfunction.)

At one point in last night's episode, Max tells Ale that she's the only adult in their home. I think he may be right. I also liked Ale's suggestion that Max dedicate a song to Reme.

Did anything happen at Max's concert? When Lucia and Ale leave after their meeting with Fernando, a piece of paper falls out of Ale's pocket. Ale leaves without noticing, and Lucia picks it up and sees it's a flyer for the concert. She then has what seemed to me a diabolical smile. But did anything come of it?
 

100 dias. Juanita:I had a strong suspicion that they cut a bunch of the concert scenes. Wasn't Max supposed to be invited to use the concert venue? Did we ever see if the invitation arrived? But then there were a lot of positive comments about how the concert turned out.
 

100 días

Yes, it seems like they either cut scenes or think we'll read between the lines.

I was sort of surprised to see that Max's group appeared to be playing Rock en Español. For some reason I was expecting banda or rancheras.

I think Jimena was calling wherever Luis says he's going in Monterrey. Perhaps there is a branch office of his company there or maybe he's made one up. But that's where Jimena found out he hadn't been in weeks, in addition to the 3 days missed work in Houston.

I feel sorry for Plutarco. He didn't really do anything wrong. The 100 días arrangement WAS, IIRC, that they could see other people as long as it wasn't anyone they knew jointly. Plutarco met Sol outside the gym and had no idea Danny had a thing for her. She lied about her age and Plutarco really kept to the letter of the agreement.

I was also confused by how the rotten Benjamin found out about Sol and Plutarco. I don't think they ever showed it. They showed Plutarco showing up at the school trying to convince Sol not to let Danny know what happened. And then Benjamin is taunting Danny.

I'll put up something, probably brief, tonight.
 

100 días

Viernes

Aurora and Luis discuss his perhaps temporary ED. So he has this with both of them. He’s trying to make her feel better when, of course, rrrrring. She’s furious he keeps taking calls when they’re having a serious conversation. He goes outside and Jimena is raging about 3 days not working in Houston and 3 weeks not showing up in Monterrey. He tells her he’s an industrial spy and she swallows this crap whole.

Ale and Lucía are doing their punishment bathroom cleaning detail (Lucía for cyberbullying and Ale for losing it about this). They are very friendly and listen to some of Max’s music.

Sol grabs Danny outside the school and tells him that nothing, absolutely nothing happened between she and Plutarco. She says his dad is a good man. She also says she’s going to Mexico to live with her father. Plutarco shows up to talk to Danny and Danny snarls that Sol leaving is his father’s fault.

Remedios, Connie, and Jimena leave the law office (glad I’m not a client of this firm) to go to a PTA “brunch” that turns out to be a place with male strippers. FF>>>>

These writers expect us to fill in the blanks! Fernando’s ex invites Pablo over. Somehow when this scene takes place, Pablo has got on his interior decorator hat and is, I believe, trying to sell her some of the stuff he bought at the consignment store. When she tells him she “likes him”, he says he’s gay. And she takes it well.

The males in the cast are in some bar playing pool. When the scene begins Luis has apparently been telling them about his ED (as if!).

Emiliano comes home to find Reme waiting for him in his white medical smock. [Don’t people lock doors in TNs?] A very hot scene ensues. Ale calls. I’m not sure which of the two she calls, but Emiliano ignores the call.

Reme stays over with Emiliano and they talk a lot about how this is all going to work, especially since Ale expects her to go back with Max after the 100 days. Reme comes home and has to do the walk of shame with Ramiro, who’s a total jerk about it. Ale overhears and is also angry with her mother.
 

100 días

Thanks so much, novelera, for this very helpful recap. I especially appreciated your, um, amazement at Jimena's falling for the nonsensical explanation that Luis offers. I must say, however, he's impressively fast at coming up with his lies. Of course, it helps that he's offering them to two women who have turned their brains off. It was also not at all surprising that, after promising Luis that she won't breathe a word about his being a spy (since he said it was a matter of life and death), she quickly tells his "secret" to several of the crew.

I was again impressed with Ale. The reason she and Lucía were getting along so well is that, knowing Lucía liked Max's music, Ale had given her a thumbdrive containing a playlist of some of a Max's songs. Lucía seemed genuinely appreciative, and that led to their getting along so well in the bathroom scene. [Actually, one aspect of that scene perplexed me. At one point, Lucía sprays something in Ale's face. I guess it must have been plain water, though it looked ominously like some kind of cleaning fluid. I half expected Ale to start crying out in pain, but she didn't, and they both treated it as simple playfulness. But if they're cleaning a bathroom, wouldn't they be using something more potent than water?]

Thank you for fast-forwardeding through the nonsense with the mothers and the strippers. I frankly found that scene astonishing, especially given that it seemed to have some connection to the PTA or other school-related organization. Huh?

I found it rather clever for Plutarco to use "Marcelo" to find out what Connie is thinking and to urge her to look upon her husband more kindly.

I confess that I was quite surprised that Sol tries to smooth things over between Danny and Plutarco before she leaves for Mexico. In most of the recent episodes she seemed like an out-of-control maniac. Thus, her sudden attempt at repentence seemed to me a little hard to believe.
 

100 días

NinaK, ¡bienvenida! I didn't see your messages until now, since they were on the previous TyM page. In answer to your question, yes, I do watch the show with the Spanish captions on, but often they go by too quickly, as does the conversation they're trying to reproduce.
 

100 dias. Great recap, Novelera, and perceptive comments, Juanita! Hmm. Since Remedios and Emiliano have now had sex, does that mean that they'll end up as a permanent couple by the end of the novela? Or is Novelaland becoming more modern? Juanita: I too found the PTA moms at a male stripper joint a bit hard to swallow. And in Texas?!
 

100 días

Nina K, I do remember you and your photo from earlier novelas! So nice to see you back here. I also use Spanish subtitles and have done so since I discovered I could do so! Back in the day I used to record novelas on...a VCR! Either my TV was too old to have them or I was too dumb to know about it, so I backed up and listened again and again until I got the gist. That was early days in my study of Spanish. I had (and still have) a fantastic co-worker born in Mexico. She advised me that my method of just turning on Uni and Telemundo to improve Spanish comprehension was doomed. I needed to watch a novela from the beginning so I could grasp what was going on.

Graciela told me that one was beginning the following week: El Privilegio de Amar and the rest is history. I followed the recaps of Melinama on her blog and, when she moved the whole kit and caboodle over to Caray! Caray! I came along.
 

OT:

Happy Memorial Day to all of the military veterans who served our great country!
 

100 dias.
Hi, everyone. Hi, Novelera, I remember you too from the old days. I too pretty much need to watch from the beginning to get the plot. But I am enjoying this one as it is modern (don't really like the period pieces) and comic.

I missed who Lucia was, having skipped three or so episodes. Is this the same girl Ale had a crush on and saw her computer? Now they are getting along? Or is it a different girl? Are they on detention bathroom cleaning duty? If so, why?

So the woman with bad gaydar now realizes the uncle is actually gay?

 

100 dias.
Yes, Juanita is an airhead, and her believing that Luis is an industrial spy is absurd. Still, I like this actress's performance I like her accent and extreme enunciation and rolling of r's. I wish I could do that. I can so easily do Yiddish ch sounds. You have to do it from birth.
The actress has apparently appeared in some US shows and movies speaking English too.

They have Remedios speaking a lot of English too, and she really hasn's much of an accent. She too has appeared in some US shows and movies.
 

100 dias.
I need a "like" button on here, as I like lots of your comments. It's been a long time since I've been on plodding old Blogspot. I am now more used to Insta and Facebook.

 

100 dias. NinaK: I think Lucia and Ale are on "public service", i.e. detention and bathroom cleaning duty because they messed up their joint Spanish literature project because they couldn't get along. Fernando has offered them a way to redeem themselves so they won't flunk the class.
 

100 días

NinaK, I'm very glad you'll be watching and commenting on 100 días.

I think the airhead you're referring to is Jimena, not Juanita. :-) The actress, Sylvia Saenz, looks and sounds very familiar to me. After reading your posting about her being in some US shows and movies, I looked in IMDb but couldn't find any that I had seen. She was apparently in Betty in NY and José, José, but I didn't watch those.
 

100 dias. Juanita: I remember her from Betty en NY. She played an even more obnoxious character in that tn.
 

100 dias.
Yes, Juanita (sorry about the name mixup, I haven't even memorized all the character names yet), that actress looks so familiar. Since I haven't watched any Spanish soaps for a while, I must have seen her in something else, but I can't place it.