Friday, February 11, 2011
El Mundo de Telemundo: Week of February 14 -- Discuss among yourselves
Happy Valentine's Day! - ¡Feliz día de San Valentín! -
While Alguien is hurtling towards its conclusion, Herederos is lumbering along and who knows what is going on in Aurora.
Thanks for all the great comments during the past week.
On Friday's episode of Herederos, there were a few amusing moments to relieve the Juan/Paula/Jose menage a trois, the Lucas hates his mother story where now he has broken up his very brief romance with Rosario because of her participation in the encounter with his mother and the dreary Pedro/Julieta/Juan story.
A la Pygmalion, Johnny's table manners are not up to Millán house standards and Berta is tasked with teaching him. Johnny is certainly a very tolerant and amiable guy.
While making sure that the newlyweds don't sleep together, Rosa gets an eyeful of bare-chested Johnny doing pushups, which awakens desires that Miguel is unwilling to fulfill. Rosa imagining Johnny eating breakfast shirtless was quite amusing.
Unintentionally amusing were Juan and Jose trying to herd cows with their fancy steeds who looked a lot more accustomed to prancing around in a show ring than to being behind a herd of cattle.
Otherwise, Jose tells Beatriz that he's interested in someone else and Efraín has tarted up (literally) Eleuterio's bar.
You folks take it from here.
Labels: alguien, aurora, herederos, telemundo
Saturday, February 05, 2011
El Mundo de Telemundo: Week of February 7, 2011
ALGUIEN TE MIRA – últimas semanas
We’ve had horrible moments of graphic violence before but nothing like the sustained hideous sadism of Julián’s triple murder: Daniel’s lawyer, the lawyer’s secretary, and finally, Daniel himself.
Up to now, Julián has eluded justice with a combination of meticulous planning, skill and dumb luck. But this time -- this time! -- we were sure the forensic evidence would be irrefutable. The detectives would analyze the murder scene checking for things like gunshot residue, bullet trajectory, skill needed to resect a heart and suture the wound closed. And they would conclude that the scene was only staged to make Daniel Vidal appear guilty. They would know that Vidal was just a victim here. And this would lead them back to the police investigators’ prime suspect: Julián García.
Well. Obviously it didn’t happen that way. This Chicago Police Department is hobbled by forensic science more suitable to a 1940’s film noir than a modern-day thriller. Luisa Carvajal’s objections are drowned out by her superiors. They buy Julián’s staged crime. He goes free.
We move ahead several months. Despite Julián’s best efforts to incriminate him as the accomplice of Daniel Vidal, Rodrigo is finally exonerated and set free.
The bellies on Lola and Piedad are ready to pop. Even Lucía looks pregnant now -- whether it’s with a pillow or a baby, we can only guess.
Pedro Pablo is still in exile from the family home although amazingly, he has managed to keep clear of Lucía. Now that Rodrigo is free, Pedro Pablo will have to find somewhere else to live.
Benja is on the straight and narrow, living with Lola and the girls and seeing his kids regularly. He’d like to get back with Tati but she’s decided it’s her turn to be the wild girl. Uh oh. Alguien te mira, Tatiana!
Camila is a college girl. Let’s hope nobody tells her about Spring Break or the College Girls Gone Wild franchise.
Matilde is home with her parents and Emilio. Her emotional reactions to names and events are eloquent. Unfortunately, we, the viewers, are the only ones who can read them. Her doctor tells her parents about a surgical procedure that may help her. Julián does his best to scare them away from it.
In her campaign to win Rodrigo’s love, Valeria has finally taken the gloves off. Literally. Hat’s off, too. Not that it helps – he’s still obsessed with pea-brain Piedad.
Piedad promises to call him for the baby’s birth. She insists her engagement with Julián is still on but she is living apart from him until after the baby is born.
Julián’s Dr. Jekyll is determined to keep his Mr. Hyde at bay. You can almost hear him muttering under his breath: Must. not. kill. While the ever-more seductive Fantasma de Eva whispers in his ear: You know you want to.
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Okay. Your turn.
We’ve had horrible moments of graphic violence before but nothing like the sustained hideous sadism of Julián’s triple murder: Daniel’s lawyer, the lawyer’s secretary, and finally, Daniel himself.
Up to now, Julián has eluded justice with a combination of meticulous planning, skill and dumb luck. But this time -- this time! -- we were sure the forensic evidence would be irrefutable. The detectives would analyze the murder scene checking for things like gunshot residue, bullet trajectory, skill needed to resect a heart and suture the wound closed. And they would conclude that the scene was only staged to make Daniel Vidal appear guilty. They would know that Vidal was just a victim here. And this would lead them back to the police investigators’ prime suspect: Julián García.
Well. Obviously it didn’t happen that way. This Chicago Police Department is hobbled by forensic science more suitable to a 1940’s film noir than a modern-day thriller. Luisa Carvajal’s objections are drowned out by her superiors. They buy Julián’s staged crime. He goes free.
We move ahead several months. Despite Julián’s best efforts to incriminate him as the accomplice of Daniel Vidal, Rodrigo is finally exonerated and set free.
The bellies on Lola and Piedad are ready to pop. Even Lucía looks pregnant now -- whether it’s with a pillow or a baby, we can only guess.
Pedro Pablo is still in exile from the family home although amazingly, he has managed to keep clear of Lucía. Now that Rodrigo is free, Pedro Pablo will have to find somewhere else to live.
Benja is on the straight and narrow, living with Lola and the girls and seeing his kids regularly. He’d like to get back with Tati but she’s decided it’s her turn to be the wild girl. Uh oh. Alguien te mira, Tatiana!
Camila is a college girl. Let’s hope nobody tells her about Spring Break or the College Girls Gone Wild franchise.
Matilde is home with her parents and Emilio. Her emotional reactions to names and events are eloquent. Unfortunately, we, the viewers, are the only ones who can read them. Her doctor tells her parents about a surgical procedure that may help her. Julián does his best to scare them away from it.
In her campaign to win Rodrigo’s love, Valeria has finally taken the gloves off. Literally. Hat’s off, too. Not that it helps – he’s still obsessed with pea-brain Piedad.
Piedad promises to call him for the baby’s birth. She insists her engagement with Julián is still on but she is living apart from him until after the baby is born.
Julián’s Dr. Jekyll is determined to keep his Mr. Hyde at bay. You can almost hear him muttering under his breath: Must. not. kill. While the ever-more seductive Fantasma de Eva whispers in his ear: You know you want to.
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Okay. Your turn.
Labels: alguien, aurora, herederos, telemundo
Saturday, January 29, 2011
El Mundo de Telemundo: Week of January 31 -- Discuss among yourselves
Hello from snowy New Jersey! Thanks to everyone for the great comments. I'll start off with Friday's Herederos, the only novela I am watching right now.
Herederos- Guadalupe leaves home and tells her Dad that she can't forgive him for hiding the fact that her mother is still alive and in fact, cares about her. Gaspar promises to help her find her mother - look at the return address on the letter??? Eleuterio is terribly upset that Lupe has moved out and protests to Gaspar how much he loves and needs her.
Juan tells Miguel and Sofia to get a room. He doesn't want their hanky panky in his house. Sofia reminds him that it isn't his house any more. Juan then piously reminds Miguel that he is married and has a family. Miguel claims that it was a one-time fling.
Rosa demands that Juan fire Johnny for getting involved with his daughter. Juan refuses but goes to see Johnny and suggests that he cool it with Consuelo. Johnny says that he doesn't want to have any more run ins with Rosa but he admits that he really loves Consuelo.
It appears that Juan, the easy touch, is going to pay for the elaborate wedding that Rosa is planning.
Pedro gets drunk, goes to Julieta's house and stands outside yelling about how much he loves her.
The brothers, minus Pedro, have a very tame bachelor party for Juan in the local bar. Pedro meanwhile has put a video camera in Juan's bedroom. Sure enough, Juan leaves the party early and comes home to find Paula coming on to him in the bedroom. He is unable to resist her and they get to have sex in a bed instead of a pond with Pedro's camera recording the whole thing.
Labels: alguien, herederos, reina-sur, telemundo
Saturday, January 22, 2011
El Mundo de Telemundo: Week of January 24 -- Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Last week’s comments were terrific. Thanks everyone!
NUEVO RICO, NUEVO POBRE
This is for real: Last Friday there was a piece in BBC Mundo about how Venezuelan authorities pulled the Colombian novela, Chepe Fortuna, off the air because:
…promueve la intolerancia política y racial, así como la xenofobia y la apología del delito.
(...it promotes political and racial intolerance as well as xenophobia and a rationale for crime.)
Here’s the article, if you’re curious: http://tinyurl.com/66qt9qa
It seems the novela features a minor character named Venezuela (and another, her sister, Colombia). Venezuela is characterized as a large, kind of vulgar, dark-skinned woman who, when told that her small dog, Huguito, is missing, cries out tearfully:
¿Qué va a ser de Venezuela sin su Huguito?
(What’s to become of Venezuela without her Huguito?)
Her less than sympathetic friend answers:
Va a ser libre, Venezuela...
(You’re gonna be free, Venezuela…)
… because lately that Huguito of yours has been sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong.
Hugo Chavez didn’t see the humor, apparently. And we’re not likely to see SNL Venezuela any time soon.
I thought of this when I was watching the latest episode of the Colombian comedy, Nuevo Rico, Nuevo Pobre, in which the newly minted and totally unprepared executive of a major shipping company says in a televised speech: Yankees Go Home! The "Yankees" in question are empresarios who have given the Colombian firm an ultimatum: if they want their business, the Colombians will have to do some belt-tightening and lay off 200 employees. Talk about Ugly Americans.
I’m so glad we live in a country where we get to decide whether to laugh or switch the channel.
That’s it. Just had to get that off my chest.
HEREDEROS DEL MONTE – OR – All the Pretty Horses…and the People Ain’t Bad Either.
Lots of amor no correspondido (unrequited love), uncertain parentage, guapos y guapas. I’m happy to enjoy it vicariously through your comments. Have at!
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ALGUIEN TE MIRA – As of Friday
As we sit at home and gnash our teeth, Julián just keeps getting away with it. Arrrrrggggggggghhh!!! And while Matilde lies unconscious with the direst of prognoses, Julián and the ever-more odious Piedad make out in the waiting room. And Julían waits for an opportunity to get to Matilde – “I’m the father of her child! And I’m a doctor!” – and finish the job he started.
In what may have been the last phone call of Matilde’s life (remember how she frantically dialled Tatiana from the deserted gas station), she cried out Julián’s name. And now the moronic Tatiana is determined to hide that fact from the police. In that decision she is supported by the even more moronic Lola.
Mauricio’s gruesome remains – minus the head – are delivered to the police. The idiot Fiscal insists that Mauricio’s death is unrelated to el Cazador. Amador and Carvajal know better, but not much.
(Can anyone tell I'm getting a little impatient with these people?)
Only Rodrigo has hit upon the truth: the killer is Julián. Rodrigo is trying to keep Valeria from coming to Julián’s attention but she insists on taking risks in her efforts to prove his innocence. I wasn’t worried about her before, but I am now.
Camila is finally a success at something: with her deliberate overdose of ‘calmantes’, she is effectively punishing her sister and her brother-in-law.
Daniel Vidal is still out there lurking in the shadows. Back at the killing ground, he could have stopped Julián from harming Matilde; later he could have prevented the murder of the good samaritan at the gas station. At the very least, if he didn’t want to get his hands dirty, he could have alerted the police. But he is apparently interested in keeping Julián alive and at liberty so he can bleed him dry financially – murder victims past, present and future be damned!
We are waaaaaaaaaay past a possible happy ending. I only hope that the police recognize Julián’s guilt and they are able to stop him. And I’d rather see him dead than in jail because that’s the only way to stop him from hurting anyone else.
How do you think this is going to end?
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AURORA
I got nothin’. Your comments are welcome.
LA REINA DEL SUR
Like Urban Anthropologist, I’m assuming La Reina will be replacing Alguien. I’ve read that it is the most expensive Telemundo production to date and that Kate del Castillo was author Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s personal choice for the title role.
A few of you have read or are reading the novel. I’ve gone back to it and am trying to read a chapter a week. The prose is already very cinematic and I have a feeling that the script will often use the original literally.
I’ll leave you with this quote, something Teresa remembers:
Raimundo Dávila Parra aka el Guëro Dávila: Mejor, solía decir, cinco años como rey que cincuenta como buey. (p.50)
(Better, he used to say, five years as a king than 50 as an ox. buey: literally, ox but in Mexico = idiot, fool)
Okay, now it's your turn.
NUEVO RICO, NUEVO POBRE
This is for real: Last Friday there was a piece in BBC Mundo about how Venezuelan authorities pulled the Colombian novela, Chepe Fortuna, off the air because:
…promueve la intolerancia política y racial, así como la xenofobia y la apología del delito.
(...it promotes political and racial intolerance as well as xenophobia and a rationale for crime.)
Here’s the article, if you’re curious: http://tinyurl.com/66qt9qa
It seems the novela features a minor character named Venezuela (and another, her sister, Colombia). Venezuela is characterized as a large, kind of vulgar, dark-skinned woman who, when told that her small dog, Huguito, is missing, cries out tearfully:
¿Qué va a ser de Venezuela sin su Huguito?
(What’s to become of Venezuela without her Huguito?)
Her less than sympathetic friend answers:
Va a ser libre, Venezuela...
(You’re gonna be free, Venezuela…)
… because lately that Huguito of yours has been sticking his nose in where it doesn’t belong.
Hugo Chavez didn’t see the humor, apparently. And we’re not likely to see SNL Venezuela any time soon.
I thought of this when I was watching the latest episode of the Colombian comedy, Nuevo Rico, Nuevo Pobre, in which the newly minted and totally unprepared executive of a major shipping company says in a televised speech: Yankees Go Home! The "Yankees" in question are empresarios who have given the Colombian firm an ultimatum: if they want their business, the Colombians will have to do some belt-tightening and lay off 200 employees. Talk about Ugly Americans.
I’m so glad we live in a country where we get to decide whether to laugh or switch the channel.
That’s it. Just had to get that off my chest.
HEREDEROS DEL MONTE – OR – All the Pretty Horses…and the People Ain’t Bad Either.
Lots of amor no correspondido (unrequited love), uncertain parentage, guapos y guapas. I’m happy to enjoy it vicariously through your comments. Have at!
-----------------------------------
ALGUIEN TE MIRA – As of Friday
As we sit at home and gnash our teeth, Julián just keeps getting away with it. Arrrrrggggggggghhh!!! And while Matilde lies unconscious with the direst of prognoses, Julián and the ever-more odious Piedad make out in the waiting room. And Julían waits for an opportunity to get to Matilde – “I’m the father of her child! And I’m a doctor!” – and finish the job he started.
In what may have been the last phone call of Matilde’s life (remember how she frantically dialled Tatiana from the deserted gas station), she cried out Julián’s name. And now the moronic Tatiana is determined to hide that fact from the police. In that decision she is supported by the even more moronic Lola.
Mauricio’s gruesome remains – minus the head – are delivered to the police. The idiot Fiscal insists that Mauricio’s death is unrelated to el Cazador. Amador and Carvajal know better, but not much.
(Can anyone tell I'm getting a little impatient with these people?)
Only Rodrigo has hit upon the truth: the killer is Julián. Rodrigo is trying to keep Valeria from coming to Julián’s attention but she insists on taking risks in her efforts to prove his innocence. I wasn’t worried about her before, but I am now.
Camila is finally a success at something: with her deliberate overdose of ‘calmantes’, she is effectively punishing her sister and her brother-in-law.
Daniel Vidal is still out there lurking in the shadows. Back at the killing ground, he could have stopped Julián from harming Matilde; later he could have prevented the murder of the good samaritan at the gas station. At the very least, if he didn’t want to get his hands dirty, he could have alerted the police. But he is apparently interested in keeping Julián alive and at liberty so he can bleed him dry financially – murder victims past, present and future be damned!
We are waaaaaaaaaay past a possible happy ending. I only hope that the police recognize Julián’s guilt and they are able to stop him. And I’d rather see him dead than in jail because that’s the only way to stop him from hurting anyone else.
How do you think this is going to end?
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AURORA
I got nothin’. Your comments are welcome.
LA REINA DEL SUR
Like Urban Anthropologist, I’m assuming La Reina will be replacing Alguien. I’ve read that it is the most expensive Telemundo production to date and that Kate del Castillo was author Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s personal choice for the title role.
A few of you have read or are reading the novel. I’ve gone back to it and am trying to read a chapter a week. The prose is already very cinematic and I have a feeling that the script will often use the original literally.
I’ll leave you with this quote, something Teresa remembers:
Raimundo Dávila Parra aka el Guëro Dávila: Mejor, solía decir, cinco años como rey que cincuenta como buey. (p.50)
(Better, he used to say, five years as a king than 50 as an ox. buey: literally, ox but in Mexico = idiot, fool)
Okay, now it's your turn.
Labels: alguien, aurora, herederos, reina-sur, telemundo
Saturday, January 15, 2011
El Mundo de Telemundo: Week of Jan. 17
¡Hola a todos! Thanks for the great comments last week. With Alguien at an exciting point and Herederos beginning, there was a lot comment on.
HEREDEROS Thursday - Juliéta finally picks up on Paula's intentions towards Juan. They quarrel. Meanwhile Paula is searching for more information about the brothers to further her plan. After she finds out that Pedro is in love with Juliéta, Paula asks him to be her ally in a campaign to break up Juan and Juliéta. Pedro refuses. Paula finds out about Jose and Guadalupe and is looking for information about Gaspar.
There is a riding competition. I would have thought these hunky guys would do steer roping and things like that but no, Juan and Jose compete in dressage and Juan wins the prize. Paula sows the seeds of discord between them.
Rosa catches Consuelo with Jonny and Eleuterio catches Guadalupe and Jose.
Sofía makes friends with Rosa and makes things awkward for Miguel.
Finally, Juan succumbs to his feelings for Paula and they kiss. (I'm already really tired of their song.) Juan tells Juliéta that he wants to postpone the wedding.
You folks take it from here.
Labels: alguien, aurora, herederos, reina-sur, telemundo
Friday, January 07, 2011
El Mundo de Telemundo: Week of Jan. 10
ELENA - the finale - part 2
I suppose there could have been a bigger waste of an hour but it's hard to imagine. Here's what happened - nothing. La Gemela went to a mental hospital/prison designed by Elena that looked like the poster child for cruel and unusual punishment and then, not surprisingly for someone kept in those conditions, she died. Everyone else lives happily ever after and Elena has another baby.
To answer Canuck Fan's questions:
Laura went on a cruise to Alaska, met and married a guy. She was depressed because she couldn't have children but her experiences with Elena taught her to enjoy whatever life brings and she's come to Florida to adopt a child. She has followed what has happened with Elena through her friend, Martín. I guess Elena couldn't ever call on the phone or send an email to find out what has been going on with her best friend.
Walter was already in the chicken raising business but in the 'años despues' he apparently became very successful.
That was about it.
I agree with Hombre that this wasn't the worst novela I've ever seen but it just fell apart at the end.
Onward with Los Herederos del Monte. I'm watching this one. At least it has a bunch of hunky guys, especially, Mario Cimarro.
Labels: alguien, aurora, fantasma, herederos, telemundo
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