Friday, March 08, 2013
Telemundo y Mas - week of March 11 - Discuss among yourselves
Wow! You guys are rockin! Keep up the great posts and comments as we in the US (except Arizona) go to daylight savings time! Yay!! Spring is coming.
Labels: cartagena, mariposa, patrona, prohibida, rostro, secretario, telemundo
Friday, March 01, 2013
Telemundo y más: week of March 4, 2013
Telemundo's 10pm/9c show, El rostro de la venganza, is slogging towards its gory finish
line. The date of the final episode
hasn't been announced nor has Telemundo named its replacement. Will El
señor de los cielos be ready to fill the slot? The promos boast that the new novela is coming muy pronto.
UniMás has announced that its 9pm/8c Colombian drama, Made in Cartagena, is also coming to a
close. Again, we have no date for a
final episode. Anyone know what will replace
it?
A gentle reminder: NO SPOILERS please. If something hasn't actually happened in an
episode, we don't talk about it here.
Labels: cartagena, mariposa, patrona, prohibida, rostro, secretario, telemundo
Friday, February 08, 2013
Telemundo y más, week of 2/11/13
Here's a new page for your comments. Stay safe and warm, everyone!
Labels: cartagena, mariposa, patrona, prohibida, rostro, secretario, telemundo
Friday, February 01, 2013
Telemundo y Mas - Week of February 4 - Discuss among yourselves
Hola! Those of us who watched and enjoyed Doña Bárbara on Telemundo several years ago will enjoy Génesis Rodriguez doing a telenovela scene with Conan.
I am off to Mexico for a couple of weeks. Over to you...
I am off to Mexico for a couple of weeks. Over to you...
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Friday, January 18, 2013
El Mundo de Telemundo (y mas) - Week of January 24 - Discuss among yourselves
Happy Martin Luther King Day! Great work by all the recappers on the various Telemundo and other network shows. As Pablo Escobar nears its end, I thought folks might enjoy this excerpt from a travel article in the New York Times today about two guys reporting on a trip to Medellín:
In the 1980s and early 1990s, you traveled to the largest cocaine-producing city in the world in the same manner that you lowered yourself into a tank of feral hogs: accompanied by either an insurance policy or a very porous concept of life expectancy. Then the home of the drug kingpin Pablo Escobar, the city had its renown for cultivating prize orchids usurped by its ability to put the k in the word “traffick.”
As Michael Kimmelman reported in this paper last year, the annual homicide rate in Medellín 20 years ago was 381 per 100,000. In New York City, this would come to more than 30,000 murders a year.
Mr. Escobar’s death at the hands of the police in 1993 did much to cool the fires. At first the changes were subtle; gang members reportedly started showing up at group therapy sessions; former hit men started taking guitar lessons. Then this city of 3.5 million was gradually graced with a series of improvements befitting its jewel-like setting in a lush valley surrounded by green mountains. Parks, libraries, museums and hotels were built. A gleaming metro system was completed in the mid-90s; in 2006 and 2008, gondolas providing service to the city’s hillside shantytowns were added, reducing what had been a two-hour trip down to a few minutes. Fernando Botero, a Medellín native, donated more than 1,000 pieces of his own and others’ art to the Museo de Antioquia. Birds, in short, began to twitter.
Eager to sample this new Medellín, I canvassed my loved ones for a traveling companion. Thinking his essential winsomeness would be the perfect litmus test for any chicanery or danger, I selected my puckish 24-year-old assistant, Ryan Haney, a heterosexual mama’s boy who sometimes refers to his knapsack as “my little bag.” I knew Ryan would want to run the idea past his mother, Angela; 24 hours later, we received her blessing.
Our first point of order was to take one of the several Pablo Escobar tours now offered in Medellín. Having heard that one operator’s Escobar tour ended in a conversation with Roberto Escobar in his living room (Roberto, Pablo’s brother, was the Medellín cartel’s accountant), I wrote to the company, but was told they were no longer working with Roberto Escobar, who they said now painted his brother as a hero. A second tour operator I contacted added that Roberto now claimed that his job for the Medellín cartel had been to design submarines. I ended up enlisting Juan Uribe, a warm, emphatic tour guide in his 60s who took us to four Escobar-related sites. We saw the apartment building where Mr. Escobar’s wife and bodyguards lived; the roof where he was gunned down by police; a neighboring roof the police used to remove his body (Mr. Uribe: “They needed a lower roof. He was very heavy then”); and Mr. Escobar’s grave.
Between sights, Mr. Uribe recounted how the drug lord started his career by stealing headstones from cemeteries and reselling them, and how he gradually widened his power base, even holding office in government at one point. Ryan took all the accounts of cocaine-fueled mayhem in his stride, but when we visited the grave in a lovely, elevated cemetery in the middle of town, I started to feel vaguely anxious. I asked, “There aren’t cameras anywhere that are recording us, are there?” Mr. Uribe smiled, then pointed at four spindly bushes next to Mr. Escobar’s grave and mused, “Microphones.”
Here is a link to the whole story:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/travel/i-just-got-back-from-medellin.html?hpw
Over to you!!
Labels: cartagena, diamante, mariposa, pablo, patrona, rostro, secretario, telemundo
Friday, January 11, 2013
El Mundo de Telemundo, Week of January 14, 2013
This past week we said goodbye to Corazón valiente and the
amazing recaps Novelera and Jean created over the long run of this popular, if
problematic, novela.
And if Lucero can play a feisty but well-endowed single mom
(in Televisa's Por ella, soy Eva), why not Aracely? Arámbula makes her Telemundo debut in Corazón's
replacement, La patrona, sharing the
spotlight with Telemundo favorite, Jorge Luis Pila. Add Christian Bach as the latest incarnation
of a diabolic güera of a certain age and let the soap bubble. Check out last week's page for Bill C.'s
clever and detailed account of the first episodes.
Rosa diamante ends January 21 to be followed by Pasión
prohibida on January 22.
Pablo Escobar is drawing to a close very soon.
El rostro de la venganza soldiers on. Meh.
MundoFox's La
Mariposa has an enthusiastic following but since the station is being
shown in a limited number of markets, not all of us have access to it. Too bad.
From the early episodes available on its official website, this novela
looks pretty exciting.
Telefutura has
reinvented itself as UniMás. Though not technically part of theTelemundo line-up, one of its new novelas,
Made
in Cartagena, has caught Hombre's attention and he has been writing
about it here.
This week you'll see a separate page posted for us -- an INDEX of all the shows we've discussed
since we started El Mundo de Telemundo
in November, 2010. I invite you to suggest additions or make corrections in the comments section of that page. I'll try to keep it updated so people can
find discussions of past novelas by the date our conversations and minicaps
were posted.
Okay, your turn.
Discuss amongst yourselves!
Labels: cartagena, diamante, mariposa, pablo, patrona, rostro, secretario, telemundo
Friday, January 04, 2013
El Mundo de Telemundo - week of January 10 - discuss among yourselves
Happy New Years Mundo-ites. Corazón Valiente is ending on Monday, Pablo Escobar and Rosa Diamante are in últimos capítulos so there will be a lot of changes in the coming weeks. If you want to keep the summaries coming for the new novelas, we need folks to volunteer. Over to you.
Labels: cartagena, diamante, mariposa, pablo, patrona, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, December 28, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, Week of December 31, 2012
I hope all of you are enjoying the holiday
season. Happy New Year!
Let the conversations begin!
Let the conversations begin!
Labels: diamante, mariposa, pablo, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, December 21, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo - Week of December 24 - Discuss among yourselves
Merry Christmas / Feliz Navidad
Best wishes for the season to all our posters, commenters and readers.
Best wishes for the season to all our posters, commenters and readers.
Labels: mariposa, pablo, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, December 14, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, week of December 17, 2012 -- Discuss amongst yourselves.
A gentle reminder, especially to folks who are new to this blog:
WE DON'T POST SPOILERS HERE.
We don't refer to anything that hasn't actually happened on the shows we
are watching. If you read a possible
spoiler on another site (Wikipedia, among others), it's fine to post a link to
what you read. People can decide whether
to click on the link or not. But please
don't tell us what is going to happen -- we want the pleasure of enjoying the
story as it unfolds.
Thanks to everyone for understanding.
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A word about El rostro de la venganza
In view of the tragedy in Connecticut this morning, I can't
bring myself to write about this show tonight.
Maybe I'll feel different about it next week. Maybe not.
But the floor is open to your comments, of course.
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Some thoughts about Pablo Escobar
I wanted to share with you a few particularly striking lines
from a work by Gabriel García Marquéz on one aspect of this
dark time in Colombia's history:
Una droga más dañina
que las mal llamadas heroicas se introdujo en la cultura nacional: el dinero
fácil. Prosperó la idea de que la ley es
el mayor obstáculo para la felicidad, que de nada sirve aprender a leer y a
escribir, que se vive mejor y más seguro como delincuente que como gente de
bien. En síntesis: el estado de
perversión social propio de toda guerra larvada.
(A drug more harmful than any opiate was injected into the
national culture: easy money. The idea flourished
that the law was the greatest barrier to happiness, that learning to read and
write was useless, that your life was better and safer as a criminal than as a
good citizen. In brief: the perversion of social values peculiar to every hidden war.)
And this:
La gente llegó a creer
más en las mentiras de los Extraditables
que en las verdades del gobierno.
(The people came to believe the Extraditables' lies more readily than the government's truth.)
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Thanks everyone for another week of fine recaps and
interesting comments. Now it's your
turn.
Labels: mariposa, pablo, rostro, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, December 07, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo - week of December 10 - Discuss among yourselves
Thanks for all the great recaps and comments! Keep it up.
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