Caray, Caray!

Guardián

I feel like I keep missing things in this show. It doesn't help that a lot of the vocabulary seems to be slang which I am not familiar with. Initially I thought Grecia was the missing daughter, but that is Georgina it seems. So now I think Grecia is the daughter of Sofia's father's mistress. I could look up names but in a few more episodes I think I'll get most of them.

It s very distracting having seen theses actors before. If I don't remember where, I'm wasting time looking them up. I didn't have that issue when telenovelas were new to me.

I have no clue how Chavo was Johnny on the spot rescuing Rex from the burning flames. One minute he's guarding Barbie and the next he's out in the country at his new friends place.It seems she was in the barn shooing the goats out, but when Chavo brought her out from the flames it seemed she was in their house, not the barn.

Is Grecia involved in Franco losing the home. It seems mortgage fraud or something occurred. Franco made payments every month but they weren't applied to his balance from what I have determined. I have other questions but maybe someone else will post things about this show.

About the over the top acting, I've only seen the Sofia actress in 1 1/2 telenovelas. I really enjoyed her in La suerte de Loli and didn't feel like she was overly dramatic there. Since it was pointed out by others I'm now on the lookout. Now Sergio I feel is pretty dramatic and I hate the manbun!!! No phone throwing yet, but I did notice Franco left his phone on the fire extinguisher box when he broke it to retrieve the axe.

No mi verdad tonight so I felt like adding this long comment.
 

Guardián

I watched the first two last night. There’s so much vocabulary I don’t understand. And haven’t gotten the connections between the characters yet.
I’m still watching Las Hermanas and enjoy that, so I may give up on this.
 

GUARDIAN

Clara, thanks for the value-added on hipocoristicos. That was fascinating! I think I even mapped out a possible phonetic path from Salvador ---> Chava, but only a linguistics major would care.

Kat, I've given up for the moment on understanding what the youngsters are saying when they're doing the dozens. I thought about looking up all those words, but do I really want to sound like a bratty teenager?

I think the verdict is in on the man-bun: we all hate it. Sergio seems to be playing a caricature of himself -- but he's having such a good time, it's hard to begrudge him. He's my favorite bad boyfriend.
 

Oh, and another thing: Barbi calls Chava "Chafa," which means "crappy." At one point she says, "You're crappier than a cheap handbag."
 

Guardián

Blue lass, I'm glad to get your perspective. I figured it was a bunch of slang that I have no real desire to learn either.

Liz, once I took over the recaps for mi verdad I stopped watching Hermanas. I thought it had promise but not many were mentioning it here so I quit.