Friday, January 25, 2013
Telemundo y más, week of January 28, 2013
A few words of explanation to new readers:
- · Jean and I post this page once a week.
- · The recaps -- usually far more succinct than those on the Univisión portion of CarayCaray -- are posted in the COMMENTS section below.
- · Since we put up this page late on Friday, the recaps run from Friday through Thursday.
- · Since we are talking about several different shows, we ask commenters to put the name of the show (and the day the episode was aired, if appropriate) at the top of each comment. That way, readers can find what they are looking for.
And
now here's a wrap-up of what is happening in our corner of CarayCaray:
Telemundo
Rosa Diamante finished its run on Monday, January 21. Pasión Prohibida is now in the
8pm/7c slot. People around here are
"cautiously optimistic" but so far no one is recapping.
La Patrona is
chugging along as the centerpiece in the Telemundo
lineup at 9pm/8c. Bill C has been
writing in great detail about this one.
Pablo Escobar: el patrón del mal ended on Thursday, January 24
and was followed by a one-hour special, El final de Pablo Escobar --
including extra footage and cast interviews with María Celeste -- on Friday,
January 25.
With Pablo dead and
buried, El Rostro de la venganza
will expand to fill the full hour slot at 10pm/9c, (also known as the Bleep the Profanity But Let the Tawdry Sex
and Violence Roll hour) beginning Monday, January 28. NovelaMan has begun recapping this one.
El secretario, the goofy little Colombian comedy, continues in its half-hour daytime slot. (10:30am/9:30c). Jody is writing about it once a week.
El secretario, the goofy little Colombian comedy, continues in its half-hour daytime slot. (10:30am/9:30c). Jody is writing about it once a week.
We're starting to see more promos for El señor de los cielos. When is it coming? Muy
pronto.
Labels: cartagena, pablo, patrona, prohibida, rostro, secretario, telemundo
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.
Labels: diamante, mariposa, pablo, rostro, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, November 30, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, week of 12/3/12: Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Here's a new page for the coming week. Enjoy!
Labels: diamante, elisa, pablo, rostro, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Saturday, November 24, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo - Week of November 26 - Discuss among yourselves
Here's the page for this week. Sorry this is late.
Labels: diamante, pablo, rostro, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, November 16, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, Week of Thanksgiving 2012: Discuss Amongst Yourselves
What Telemundies
have to be thankful for:
Hombre de misterio
continues his impressive solo recapping of Pablo
Escobar while the beautifully crafted recaps of Novelera and Jean lead
us through the twists and turns of the telenovela that wouldn't die, Corazón Valiente. And where would we be without Deb's terrific comments on the whole
Telemundo lineup and especially her background information on the terrible
Escobar years in Colombia? Thank you so
much to the four of you -- and to everyone who comments here -- for keeping
this page lively over the past several months.
Rosa Diamante has
its fans too and Deb and Shallowgal, among others, update us now
and then on that show.
El rostro de la
venganza gets some attention here from time to time -- Thanks, Bill C, for your writeups -- but like
the orphaned Rosa, no one has really taken it on as a project.
A few cranky
observations:
On Pablo Escobar
I'm still watching Pablo
Escobar but I'm liking it less and less.
The historical facts are ghastly enough. Yet at times, the made-up
conversations cheapen the very real tragedy being portrayed. (Think of the
little girl on the plane who, gazing out at the clouds, tells her daddy they
are now close to her [dead] mother.)
Hombre, I apologize for not commenting very much on your
remarkable daily summaries. Please know
that I always read them and always appreciate them. I'm usually a day or two behind because I
record and watch when I have time.
So why am I watching this thing at all? I think I need to
see some kind of justice restored. I
want to see the fall of the bad guys and the end of this terrible chapter of
Colombia's history.
On El rostro de la
venganza
I watch this because it's only a half hour long and it comes
right after Pablo. While the underlying story is gruesome and at
times shockingly violent, the novela itself somehow manages to have no
emotional resonance at all. The dialogue
is endlessly recycled. We sit and watch our favorite beautiful people forming various
tableaux vivants. (If People
en español were a telenovela, this is the one it would be.) For me the only
real mystery is how they are going to manage the Presto Chango of Elizabeth
Gutiérrez into Marlene Favela. That
should be fun!
On Corazón valiente
Because of the way the evening telenovelas bleed over into
one another's time slot, my DVR catches the last two or three minutes of this
show. Almost every episode ends with a
cliffhanger that in another novela would mean últimas capítulos. Here it
just seems to mean "We'll keep this thing going as long as you keep
watching." I think Aurora (la princesa de hielo) tried to
do this too but not nearly as successfully.
Folks are watching more or less enthusiastically, so I guess the
production team is doing something right.
Anyway, I'm glad the talented Telemundo actors have work.
Your turn, amig@s. And a happy, healthy, warm, dry and safe
Thanksgiving to you all. Eat well and
not too wisely!
Labels: diamante, pablo, rostro, telemundo, valiente
Friday, November 09, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo - Discuss among yourselves - week of November 12
The election is over, the storms have passed, let's get back to what's important - our novelas!!
Labels: pablo, telemundo, valiente
Saturday, November 03, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, week of 11/5/12 -- Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Friday, October 26, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, week of 10/29/12: Discuss Amongst Yourselves
A new page for your posting delight -- enjoy!
Labels: diamante, pablo, rostro, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, October 19, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo - Discuss among yourselves - Week of October 22
This week's posting for your comments. Enjoy!
Labels: diamante, pablo, rostro, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Saturday, October 13, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo - Week of 10/15/12: Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Here's your page for the coming week. The Telemundo evening shows were preempted tonight (Friday, 10/12) so there won't be any mini-recaps for Corazón Valiente or Pablo Escobar until Monday night or Tuesday morning. This is a good opportunity to chime in on some of the other shows that no one is recapping regularly but many people are still watching.
Have a great week, everyone!
Have a great week, everyone!
Labels: diamante, elisa, pablo, rostro, telemundo, valiente
Friday, October 05, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo - Week of October 8 - Discuss among yourselves
Here you go! Another week with more great recaps and comments.
I doubt Miggy and FF will make it to Ushuaia. Here is a picture of the town in December, their spring.
Here is a picture of a place in Tierra del Fuego National Park...
where, for a modest fee, you can get you passport stamped with a "Fin de Mundo" stamp. This is where the Pan American Highway ends.
I doubt Miggy and FF will make it to Ushuaia. Here is a picture of the town in December, their spring.
Here is a picture of a place in Tierra del Fuego National Park...
where, for a modest fee, you can get you passport stamped with a "Fin de Mundo" stamp. This is where the Pan American Highway ends.
Labels: diamante, pablo, rostro, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, September 28, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, week of October 1: Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Hola amigos! Here's a fresh page for the coming week.
UPDATE:
Novelera's splendid recap of Corazón valiente is now posted in the comments below.
And Hombre de Misterio covers Thursday and Friday of Pablo Escobar with his usual talent for getting to the essentials while keeping us on track with the details.
Enjoy!
UPDATE:
Novelera's splendid recap of Corazón valiente is now posted in the comments below.
And Hombre de Misterio covers Thursday and Friday of Pablo Escobar with his usual talent for getting to the essentials while keeping us on track with the details.
Enjoy!
Labels: pablo, telemundo, valiente
Friday, September 21, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo - week of September 24 - Discuss among yourselves
Another week of great recaps and comments. Go to it.
Labels: pablo, secretario, telemundo, valiente
Friday, September 14, 2012
El Mundo de Telemundo, week of 9/17/12: Discuss Amongst Yourselves
Here's a fresh page for your posting pleasure. Have a great week, folks!
Labels: pablo, telemundo, valiente
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