Caray, Caray!

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Monday, #26, 1 of 3
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Emilio fills in Isabela on the whole Alberto-Cristina-Ana situation. She thinks that’s nuts because things have change. But Emilio explains that no they haven’t and she should know what it’s like to go up against a powerful family.
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Pedro nurses Marga. Boring until he tells her that he’s falling in love with her. Then she almost falls asleep because this was not the time for this convo. But she does manage to tell him that she’s loved him but falls asleep as he kisses her. Then Clara comes in, freaking out Pedro, but she just wants to watch her sister for now.
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Ana argues with Mateo about the whole “we’re dating” lie. Mateo defends this nonsense by reminding her about the store (because who cares about Cris’s feelings about being lied to).
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Gloria reminds Alberto about the importance of Cristina and her money, and that if the marriage doesn’t go through, it’s Ana who will suffer.
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Luisa talks to the skeevy old man (SOM) who offers to talk to a lawyer for her. She thanks him and gives him a hug. Francisco is his name but he’s still a SOM.
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Raul comes to Al’s office the next day and says he still works there. Yay! He explains his arrangement with Gerardo and the new collection he’ll design.
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Marga is all better and at a park with Luisa telling her about the Pedro thing the day before but she thinks it might have been a dream. Luisa starts to ask about the doctor who helped her before Pedro interrupts. Marga asks him if he was in her room the day before, but then she takes a call from the doctor himself! Not sure Pedro can compete with Dr. Handsomepants.
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Isabel comes to the store and almost faints when she is helped by Ana. Emilio comes by and asks what the heck she’s doing there. She’s happy to have met his niece and he introduces her as an old friend of her mother’s from Oaxaca.
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The henchman is talking to Gloria in a bar about Isabel. He doesn’t know where she is because his men lost him, but he doesn’t think she could be in NY. She doesn’t have money and doesn’t know anyone here. But Gloria knows one person she might know. (Dramatic music).
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Ana fills in Marga about the whole Cris-Mateo’s lie situation. Marga is like, What? He has a girlfriend and she is my sister! Ana knows how dumb this whole thing is, but Cris was loca that night. Then Clara comes in all excited about going to the big fancy wedding with HER boyfriend and she bought a fancy Carmen Garza dress that cost a fortune but it’s ok because she’s going to a society wedding with HER boyfriend. No one fills her in yet about the Situation.
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Blanca and Max talk She thinks they should chill but he wants to know why. He doesn’t care about what other people think. She thinks he wants something more that she can’t give and she ends it. He’s sad. (And I guess I was way wrong about thinking that he might still her real son because ewww).
 

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Monday, #26, 2 of 3
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Ana and Mateo talk and are interrupted by Barbie who is a complete bitch. Sorry, but she is. She wants a pic of the happy couple and neither of them smile. And then Clara comes in and Barbie talks up the happy couple (I assume Barbie knows that Mateo and Clara are together? Or maybe not and she’s just just being a jerk?) Clara says “Que?”?! (Enrique is garbage but I’m not going to feel sorry for Barbie when her marriage blows up). Then she says she’s leaving because she’s bored, Clara storms out, and Mateo follows.
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Clara is crying about him and Ana. Mateo wants to explain and he actually manages to do this. She forgives him for saving Alberto and Ana and she hugs him. Then she slaps him, as he deserves, for doing this to her. And he gets another slap when he tells her he has to go to the wedding with Ana.
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More of Max trying to convince Blanca that they should be together. But there is nothing he can say that would change her mind. He leaves and sad music plays.
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Hey! The doctor is back! And he’s talking to Marga! He checks her hand, for free, and gives her chocolates, which is way more that I get from my doctor. But then he tries to feed her a chocolate, which is weird, and she tries to feed it back to him (still weird), which Pedro sees. He drops whatever he was carrying and they rush over to help.
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Enrique talks to someone but I miss the convo. He remembers how Raul got the better of him y going right to Gerardo about getting his job back, so I think he’s targeting Raul now. Mega-sucks? Is that a new category? Because Enrique and his beautiful eyes can stuff it.
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Blana and Luisa talk about getting her kid back. She has the law on her side and she is not going to play dirty. She’s happy about this decision. And then we see Ramon getting the crap beat out of him by a couple guys who work for SOM, who threatens him. He drops drugs by Ramon and leaves just as the cops show up with guns drawn on Ramon. (Not sure if I’m upset about this, except for how it’s going to come back to bite Luisa).
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Clara is crying and eating all the chocolate over the Situation. She had a dress by CARMEN GARZA? Don’t they understand that??? And then Marga spills that Ana IS Carmen Garza!
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Emilio comes home with a dress for Isabel because Emilio doesn’t want her to miss her son’s wedding.
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Ana goes to work on a dress for alterations and finds it missing. It’s Cris’s wedding dress. Uh oh.
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Ana is distraught over the loss of the dress and Clara, Marga, and Pedro look. Pedro is looking in random boxes, which doesn’t seem helpful.
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Raul wants to take Mateo and Al out for drinks and he doesn’t care that Al isn’t in the mood. He has decided this is a time to party. Al tries to get support from Mateo because he wants to work, but Mateo agrees with Raul.

 

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Monday, #26, 3 of 3
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Emilio shows Isabel some of the dresses that Ana has designed. Isabel can’t understand why Al would accept this. Then Emilio gets a call of some drama and asks “what happened?”
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Quick scene of Blanca seeing Max come home with some chica. He looks at her, seems a little unhappy, and goes into his room.
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Then Emilio gets to Blanca’s to tell her about the dress. Back to the atelier, they decide, for some reason, that Al needs to be told in person when they find out where the boys are from Raul’s (I assume) social media post. Clara stays behind, just in case of ?
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The boys are talking work and drinking. Enrique shows up with someone who is not Barbie. He acts nice but everyone knows he isn’t being nice. Al says he should go home to his wife and he tells Al to know his place. Enrique is all Enrique-like and digs into Al about just marrying Cris for her money. This is true, of course, but Al still has to punch Enrique. (I’m ok with this). Raul and Mateo break this up. Mateo apologizes to the bar and Raul pours out more booze which seems like a mistake.
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Cris is all sad and looking at pics. Gerardo comes by to ask how she’s doing. She talks about how she wished her mother was here and how much she misses her. Then she asks why her mother killed herself. (And this convo makes me hate her situation and Gerardo even more- they are rich and could have afforded some real therapy instead of the “just marry her off” plan). He gives some reason and she hugs him in the end but he’s still wrong. (The actress is very good at looking sad. And unstable. Gerardo is also in the new megasucks category. He’s worse than Gloria even. She has a reason for being evil but Ger is just too lazy to even pay someone to get his daughter some help).
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Back at the bar, Ana and Marga have gotten there and tell Raul what’s up with the dress. He thinks it’s a joke but no. Everyone- the atelier folk, Emilio and Blanca, Raul- are all back at the workroom panicking about the dress. I guess the wedding is tomorrow? Because Raul orders fabric to be brought over and demands the table be cleared! Then he passes out and everyone realizes he’s wasted. They all turn to Ana. Carmen Garza to the rescue! Maybe! We’ll find out tomorrow.
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K

 

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Thanks very much, K, for another sparkling and helpful recap.

Did Francisco really tell Luisa that he would talk to a lawyer for her? I must have missed that. I thought he had offered to help her because he was a highly accomplished lawyer who knew a lot of influential people, including judges. Until tonight's episode, I was unsure what to make of him. Yes, I remember him looking at Luisa trying on the dress with the curtain slightly opened, but I wasn't really convinced that he was a "skeevy old man." But his having Ramon beaten up by two thugs AND planting some drugs nearby for the police to find have convinced me that he's in the "sucks" category and not someone Luisa should trust. (I have to confess, though, that I rather enjoyed seeing Ramon on the receiving end of nasty, deceitful treatment.)

I don't think Barbie knew that Mateo and Clara are together. I agree more with the second possibility you propose: "she's just being a jerk."

Probably as a result of my watching too many crime shows, when the doctor tries to feed Marga a chocolate and she wants him to have one first, I immediately wondered whether she was trying to make sure that the chocolate didn't contain a drug of some kind (a la what happened to Jennifer in an earlier episode).

I wonder how many people Enrique [hiss here] wants to harm. It's not enough that he wants to get rid of Alberto, he also wants to get rid of Raúl, to teach him not to go over his head (as Raúl did when he convinced Gerardo to let him stay at Velvet). K, I like your "mega-sucks" addition. It seems the right designation for both Enrique and Gloria.

I wonder what happened to Cristina's wedding dress. And is it really possible to make another one overnight, especially with Raúl out of commission thanks to all that alcohol? I hope you're right about "Carmen Garza to the rescue!"
 

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I think Enrique is behind the missing dress. That Asian looking guy he was plotting with probably orchestrated it. Have you ever watched the great British Sewing Bee? 10 hours is plenty of time, especially with half a dozen women working on it. As Raul said, fewer rhinestones on it. The tough part is not having the bride available for the final fitting.I think it is totally weird that these brides get ready at Velvet though when Gerardo has a perfectly lovely mansion to serve as a backdrop to a lovely photo session. Why the bridesmaids dresses were delivered makes little sense though. I would assume they are all prepping at the same location.

So Francisco is a hot shot lawyer with a firm. He has some of his best looking for proof Ramon created the fake profile. And he is going to talk to the judge, he knows where she eats lunch. I think he made a tactical error threatening Ramon though. If Luisa goes back to court then he may be identified by Ramon and his law team. Of course if the drug charges stick( no fingerprints of Ramon on the bag dropped) then Luisa regains Michael without a court case I would think. Did you see all that gold jewelry Ramon was wearing. He probably is dealing drugs. Even if his family is wealthy I doubt he has that big an allowance, especially since he was stealing the lottery pool money from Luisa.

Ana has to be in 2 places at once tomorrow it seems. She has that interview as the new design head at the fashion house, and a wedding.


 

Great points, Kat! I've never watched the British Sewing Bee and am happy to learn that it's possible to make a similar wedding dress in 10 hours, given Velvet's staff working on it. And i agree with the other points you make in the "dress" paragraph, points I hadn't really thought about. I also found your "Francisco" paragraph stimulating. Many thanks!