Caray, Caray!

Only Corazón Valiente and Pablo Escobar were on this Friday so it's on to next week!

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Here's a fresh page for the week ahead.  Have a great Labor Day Weekend, guys!

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Another page for our Telemundo novelas. Enjoy! I will be at the beach eagerly reading your posts.

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A new page for you, folks.  Have a great week!

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¡Hola á todos! Another week for discussion of our Telemundo novelas! Take it away.

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Here's a fresh page for our Telemundo community. Have a great week!

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Greetings from Maine! While I eat lobsters and watch gorgeous sunsets, all hell is breaking loose on our novelas. Hombre is keeping us up to date on the increasingly violent world of Pablo Escobar while watchers of Corazón Valiente eagerly await the ramifications of the disclosure that Fernanda de Castillo, known to us as the Reptile, has murdered half the cast. Novelera and Deb are handling these developments while I am away. Finally, Shallowgal is providing some updates on Rosa Diamante. Take it away, commenters!

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Here's a fresh page for your thoughts. Have a great week, everyone!

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¡Hola á todos! We're on a roll with three novelas: the two new ones - Rosa Diamante and Pablo Escobar and Corazón Valiente continues. Thanks to Novelera, Hombre de Misterio and Novela Maven for their recaps. Over to you.

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Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del mal is set to begin this Monday at 10pm/9c and the good news is that our own Hombre de Misterio has said he’ll be mini-capping it here (Yay!). Some of us won’t be watching because of the subject and I can understand that. But I’m curious to see how the writers treat this grim interlude in Colombia’s recent history. From the previews, it doesn’t look like they are planning to do much airbrushing.

I happen to be on the email list of the guy who sells “Learning Spanish Like Crazy”, Patrick Jackson. Patrick is an American-educated lawyer who grew up in Queens, New York and then moved to Colombia several years ago. Now he makes his living selling language learning products. Anyway, he lives in Medellin, the city that was, until only a few years ago, most closely associated with – and tainted by -- Pablo Escobar; and he mentioned in a recent email that many people on the street still think of Escobar as a hero who was out to help the common man. When Patrick challenged the myth and told these same folks about some of the more notorious bloodletting for which Escobar was responsible, they seemed surprised to hear it.

Well I hope the writers don’t show try to sell us a modern-day Robin Hood who loves his mami, his wife and his kids and is out to shake up the corrupt establishment and then goes a little too far. I guess we’ll know soon enough.

I do admit I have a weakness for the Colombian style of telenovela. While there is, of course, loads of trash out there, when the Colombians get it right, they get it spectacularly right – as writers and as actors – whether they’re doing drama, history or comedy. Let’s hope this is one of the good ones.

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Telemundo is running promos for Rosa Diamante, starring Mauricio Ochmann, Carla Hernández and Lupita Ferrer (and featuring Sofía Stamatiades). The screen says it begins this Tuesday at 8:30pm/7:30c while the voice-over says “este verano”. So who knows. My cable provider isn’t yet listing the program.

The promos stress that this is a MEXICAN novela and imply that they actually invested a little money in making it. As you may recall, the story has an impressive pedigree (Perla Negra in Argentina, Perla in Mexico and Pérola Negra in Brazil.) I’m guessing that the decision to air it on the half-hour rather than the hour is a way of screwing with the competition.

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I’m intrigued by the promos for El rostro de la venganza which is promised rather vaguely for “este verano”. It looks like the kind of suspense story that Telemundo has gotten good at and it features a couple of my favorites, Saúl Lisazo and David Chocarro.

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Of course as you know, Una maid en Manhattan is in its “últimos capítulos”. Fans, keep an eye on the time-slot so you don’t miss the final chapters of your favorite show.

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