Friday, April 08, 2016
Karmageddon for the Rich and Shameless: Pasión y Poder 4/8/16
I
have always loved the concept of poetic justice, of people getting
the fate they deserve. This does not often happen among those who
can buy their way out of it or get someone else to do it for them.
Many – if not most – who can do this have no conscience about it.
Few feel any regret for their actions or remorse for the
consequences; most that do are too late to do more than pick up the
pieces.
Human
crime is not limited to things subject to legal judgment. Many
crimes are social, familial, or both. Most of these are behind
closed doors and at least half will hurt the perpetrator as much as
the victim. All they can do at that point is close ranks to save
face if they can manage to avoid the paparrazzi who – for this crowd – is Dante's Inferno. – D.D.
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Thursday, April 07, 2016
Pasión y poder, Episode 120, Thursday, April 7, 2016: What happens in Vegas... comes back to haunt you in Mexico (even when nothing much happened).
In which Julia and Eladio suffer, each believing that the other has been unfaithful, and each too proud to tell the other the truth; Nina gets tougher; and Arturo... well, Arturo is still a putz.
Franco the Joker is taking the enemy down. He can hardly contain his glee – he smirks and mugs and grins, excitedly waving his spider-like fingers in the air as he cants his head to one side or the other. He is pushing Julia farther and farther out of the picture. Eladio grows more vulnerable every day. Gabriela still seems bewitched. And the Joker dances daringly ever closer to the flaming abyss.
Julia says goodbye to the tacky charms of Las Vegas and thanks Arturo for providing a few days of distraction away from all her problems. Of course, she admits, flashing him a radiant smile, she is still a little confused. [Oh god.] Arturo, however, has his eye fixed firmly on the prize. He still loves Julia, he assures her – he has never stopped loving her.
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Pasion y Poder #119, Wednesday 4-6-2016
Lo Nuevo
Jorge and Regina take a screaming Dani to her room. Regina argues with Dani about falling off the wagon. Dani is pissed because she saw the way Regina was looking at David the yesterday at Connie's. She knows that Regina still has the hots for her boyfriend, Dani's boyfriend that is. Dani tells Jorge to not be fooled because Regina still wants David and he is an idiot to think otherwise. Jorge stops Dani from storming out of the room. She calms down when he tells her that he will call David. Dani decides that she will call David.
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Jorge and Regina take a screaming Dani to her room. Regina argues with Dani about falling off the wagon. Dani is pissed because she saw the way Regina was looking at David the yesterday at Connie's. She knows that Regina still has the hots for her boyfriend, Dani's boyfriend that is. Dani tells Jorge to not be fooled because Regina still wants David and he is an idiot to think otherwise. Jorge stops Dani from storming out of the room. She calms down when he tells her that he will call David. Dani decides that she will call David.
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Tuesday, April 05, 2016
Pasión y Poder Martes 4/5/16 #118
Chapter
118: Higher Stakes
People
gamble with all sorts of currency and all kinds of luck, good and
bad. Those who are lucky at cards are said to be unlucky in love.
Some people gamble on both and lose badly. Some don't realize that
there are higher stakes than money like hearts, reputations, egos,
lives. Typically, they also don't examine the odds... or that the
house always wins in the end. – D.D.
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Pasion y Poder Monday #117 20160404
Connie is acting remarkably smug and superior to Gina ever
since she and Mikey hooked up. She’s
like a real relationship expert, now that she’s been dating her stalker, who is
also her husband’s brother. Anyway, she
tells Gina that she needs get back together with Dave. Unfortunately, Dave has been dating Gina’s
sister and Gina is kinda sorta not OK with that. Gina will stick with Jorge, her rebound
guy. Jorge’s kind of boring, but Gina
can learn to tolerate him…she hopes.
Gina doesn’t want to talk about Dave anymore because he and Dani are
happy together. They move onto a happier
conversation. Connie’s got great
news! Mikey should be getting out of
jail soon! Erick’s was faking it, so the
fuzz can’t prove that Mikey tried to take him out. Erick will be discharged from the hospital
soon.
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Saturday, April 02, 2016
Pasión y Poder Episode #116 Friday, April 1st 2016 While Julia has a jealous snit, Erick gets busted, and Petra may finally get some romance.
At Casa Montenegro, Julia has arrived to see Daniela, when she spots her ex-husband Eladio with Nina. Naturally, Julia thinks the worst, and accuses her ex-husband of not knowing how to be without a woman. Nina sees this as her golden opportunity, and she's not about to let it slide, so she sticks it to Julia by telling her that she (Nina) and Eladio have just as much right to be together as she (Julia) and Arturo do. With the difference that they (Nina & Eladio) have a clean conscience since they didn't destroy a family. Julia can't believe that Nina has the audacity of accusing her of being with Arturo, when she and Eladio are the ones who are together. Nina can't believe that Julia has the audacity to show her face at Casa Montenegro when Arturo doesn't live there anymore. Before more can be said between both woman, Daniela arrives, and Nina and Eladio leave so Julia and Daniela can talk. (Surprisingly, Eladio remained quiet throughout the scene, was he out of his breath spray, perhaps?!)
In another room at Casa Montenegro, while Nina hopes that Eladio won't get upset with her for what she told Julia, Eladio can't seem to comprehend Julia's behavior. Why was she so irked at the two of them for seeing one another? According to Nina, women are just apprehensive, they love to still be loved, despite the circumstances. Uh, okay.
Meanwhile, Julia offers Daniela her help after she stupidly admits to coming to see her because Arturo asked her to. Daniela is not amused. She already knows that Julia asked David to break up with her. And now this. She doesn't believe in Julia's help.
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Thursday, March 31, 2016
Pasión y poder, Episode 115, Thursday, March 31: Of cakes and fakes and folks on the take
Nina lashes out at Consuelo
The sight of Consuelo leaning on Arturo for comfort is more than Nina can bear. [Maybe Nina remembers when she was the one taking tearful refuge in Arturo's arms the last time Chimp Boy was in the hospital.] If the younger woman wants to see her son, Nina tells her bitterly, let her visit him at the mansion – especially if she continues to hang out with that dangerous chimp-beater, Miguel.
Consuelo protests that Miguel would never hurt a child, especially her son. Nina isn't so sure: Behind his gloomy, hypocritical face (cara de mustio) lurks a psychopath! [But I think she's only saying that because she's a narcissist.]
¡Ya basta, Nina! says Arturo. Miguel was only defending Consuelo.
"Whose side are you on?" Nina wants to know.
"I'm on the side of both of my sons because I love them both."
Nina doesn't buy it. It's Miguel's fault that Chimp Boy is languishing in the hospital. [And it's Arturo's fault that he isn't languishing in the reclusorio, but Agustín isn't around to remind them of that.]
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Pasion y Poder #114, Wednesday March 30, 2016
Lo Nuevo
Nina, Regina and Jorge visit Erick in the hospital. He says he feels like crap. Erick thinks Regina is faking her concern for his health. Regina and Jorge leave.
David brings Dani home. He promises to talk to Nina about helping her with her drug problem. Regina and Jorge arrive while D&D are hugging. Awkward...
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Nina, Regina and Jorge visit Erick in the hospital. He says he feels like crap. Erick thinks Regina is faking her concern for his health. Regina and Jorge leave.
David brings Dani home. He promises to talk to Nina about helping her with her drug problem. Regina and Jorge arrive while D&D are hugging. Awkward...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Pasión y Poder Martes 3/29/16 #113
Chapter
113: Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth
Errant
children can be a great equalizer even after they are legally adults.
They bring out both the best and the worst in their parents. It has
been said that the rich and the poor are very alike when such things
happen. And there are certainly things that money of whatever age
cannot fix. – D.D.
Arturo
had seen Daniela's test results: positive for cocaine. She was her
usual petulant self, telling him to leave her alone and trying to
leave. He didn't allow her to do this. In her usual bid for
attention she tried to claim he didn't care about her. For all that
she was actually twenty-one years old she had the attitude of one
half that age. When he told her she was not alone and that he would
take her to the rehab center she looked as though she were facing her
execution.
“Daddy,
daddy, you can't do this to me. Let me do another test. I'm sure it
was wrong.”
But
Arturo was having none of this. He told her he was taking her to
rehab and that was that. He did not allow her to leave with her
friend. He insisted that he was taking her home to her mother then
to the rehab center.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Pasion y Poder #112 20160328 Your Honor, I Was Raped Last Night, I Might Be Pregnant, and It's Making Me Very Horney
*In front of the judge, Connie accuses Erick of rape. The judge says no police report plus no rape kit equals no rape. He can't consider her accusation without proof.
*Gina asks Miguel how the custody case is going. Miguel doesn't know because Auggie suggested that he to stay away from Connie. Neither the judge nor Erick appreciate him coveting his brother's wife. Since, he's socially awkward he didn't get the memo about this being generally frowned upon by most of the world, so he'll have to take Augustin's word for it.
*Dave and Dani are still in bed together. Dave tells Dani that she can be herself around him. Don't change for me, he says. Translation: in manspeak he's saying that he's attracted to Angelina Jolie, not Jennifer Aniston. He likes him a a little dirty girl. Dani assures him that deep inside, she has always been the "Disney years Miley Cyrus" and not the "the Wrecking Ball and twerkin' Miley Cyrus". Matter of fact, she's a virgin too. Dave buys this because he's stupid. Dani tells him that she loves him and wants him to like her "different" than her sister. He assures her that he will.
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*Gina asks Miguel how the custody case is going. Miguel doesn't know because Auggie suggested that he to stay away from Connie. Neither the judge nor Erick appreciate him coveting his brother's wife. Since, he's socially awkward he didn't get the memo about this being generally frowned upon by most of the world, so he'll have to take Augustin's word for it.
*Dave and Dani are still in bed together. Dave tells Dani that she can be herself around him. Don't change for me, he says. Translation: in manspeak he's saying that he's attracted to Angelina Jolie, not Jennifer Aniston. He likes him a a little dirty girl. Dani assures him that deep inside, she has always been the "Disney years Miley Cyrus" and not the "the Wrecking Ball and twerkin' Miley Cyrus". Matter of fact, she's a virgin too. Dave buys this because he's stupid. Dani tells him that she loves him and wants him to like her "different" than her sister. He assures her that he will.
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Friday, March 25, 2016
Weekend Discussion: Crimes of Fashion, 4th Edition 3/25/16
There
is so much Stürm
und Drang among the denizens of the DF upper crust that it seemed
appropriate to understand why these emotional conflicts exist. A few of
the women in the midst of this conflict might have made their lives
better – in their own minds – with better fashion choices. It
was only the sudden death of Monserrat Moret that made Nina Perez de
Montenegro the main focus of this latest edition. She is no Ann
Grenville in money matters and even now still has much to learn of
fashion in the world she hopes to stay in.
Thanks
to Soledad Romero-Vargas, our fashion critic here at Vanidades,
we bring you these fashion felonies. Enjoy.
- D.D.
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Labels: camino, hotel, poder, sda, telemundo, weekend
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Pasión y poder, Episode 111, Thursday, March 24, 2016: Okay, maybe I AM jealous!
It's been a while, hasn't it? I've just come home from an extended and rather bittersweet visit with family. We decided to drive this time, and as we made our way towards Boston, I imagined rolling down the window and shouting out to my CarayCaray friends somewhere south of our path – JudyB and Susanlynn and Diana, just to name a few. (Of course I kept my thoughts to myself. I'm not sure Mr. Maven would get it, or not entirely.)
I've now caught up with our imaginary PyP crowd I think, thanks in no small part to the fabulous recaps here (and no thanks at all to the brain trust at Univisión, which is still playing chicken with my television provider, ATT U-Verse*). I'm especially grateful to Urban Anthropologist for taking on last Thursday and doing her usual impeccable job.
I think this is tonight's episode. Fingers and toes duly crossed.
*Update – Yay! Univisión and ATT have kissed and made up! Will any of the fools on the screen do the same?
Arturo is where we left him last night, still fulminating.
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Pasion y Poder #110, Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Lo Nuevo
At GLA Nina and Eladio make a lunch date. They will meet later. Nina leaves. Caridad does not think it's a good idea for Eladio to go to lunch with Nina because she's jealous. Eladio tells her to keep her mouth shut and get back to work.
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At GLA Nina and Eladio make a lunch date. They will meet later. Nina leaves. Caridad does not think it's a good idea for Eladio to go to lunch with Nina
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Pasión y Poder Martes 3/22/16 #109
Chapter
109: Second Chances
Second
chances are often heavily anticipated and highly over-rated. They
can be both too late and inadequate to the task. In theory everyone
deserves one, but in practice this doesn't always play out. And
nobody who looks for them ever thinks about that. – D.D.
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Pasion y Poder #108 20160321 Eladio is a Better Man, but a Boring Villain
This recap has not been edited. I'm way too tired. The last ten minutes of this recap is sketchy. My signal kept going in an out. I missed a lot of what was going on.
Julia's still pissed because Nina called her a homewrecker. She recounts the sordid scene with Humberto. Humberto tells Julia that Nina has no class. The hand that "rocked her cradle wasn't wearing a diamond".
Dani wants to cook Dave a romantic dinner. As soon as Dave leaves the room, Dani calls Petra-Samantha, who walks her through the preparation.
Lucita WTF asks Caridad to be her grandmother. Caridad agrees.
Julia visits Dave and they argue over the divorce. Both Dave and Julia are stupid. Really stupid. Instead of rejoicing that she is free from her abuser, Julia is obsessing over why Eladio divorced her first. Who cares? One less beating to endure, one less egg to fry! Duh! Dave who has forgotten that Eladio sired Franco and boinked the Ratt reminds Julia that men don't like to be cheated on. Julia's all like...if Eladio loved me, he wouldn't have divorced me! Anyways, Julia finds the keys that Dani conveniently left on his counter. Dave tells Julia that he doesn't owe her an explanation. Julia is shocked that Dave didn't realize that Dani just pulled an alternative version of the old marking your territory by "leaving your underwear at his house trick". Or is it the old leave an item at his house trick so that he will have to contact you again.
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Julia's still pissed because Nina called her a homewrecker. She recounts the sordid scene with Humberto. Humberto tells Julia that Nina has no class. The hand that "rocked her cradle wasn't wearing a diamond".
Dani wants to cook Dave a romantic dinner. As soon as Dave leaves the room, Dani calls Petra-Samantha, who walks her through the preparation.
Lucita WTF asks Caridad to be her grandmother. Caridad agrees.
Julia visits Dave and they argue over the divorce. Both Dave and Julia are stupid. Really stupid. Instead of rejoicing that she is free from her abuser, Julia is obsessing over why Eladio divorced her first. Who cares? One less beating to endure, one less egg to fry! Duh! Dave who has forgotten that Eladio sired Franco and boinked the Ratt reminds Julia that men don't like to be cheated on. Julia's all like...if Eladio loved me, he wouldn't have divorced me! Anyways, Julia finds the keys that Dani conveniently left on his counter. Dave tells Julia that he doesn't owe her an explanation. Julia is shocked that Dave didn't realize that Dani just pulled an alternative version of the old marking your territory by "leaving your underwear at his house trick". Or is it the old leave an item at his house trick so that he will have to contact you again.
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Friday, March 18, 2016
Pasión y Poder Capitulo #107 Friday, March 18th 2016 Hmm.. last weeks, you say, then why are the bad guys still winning and scheming??
At GLA, Eladio and Julia are about to sign the divorce papers that will bring an end to their marriage. They both struggle to get their signature on the papers, but end up dong so. In fact, Eladio does this funny thing where he takes out his pen to sign the papers, but then decides to use the pen that Julia used instead, and really struggles internally to bring himself to sign the papers. Julia is taken aback when Rueda explains that she and Eladio will be divorced in TWO DAYS. "So soon?!", she says in a disappointed tone. (Well, that's why it's called an "express divorce", my dear!)
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At Casa Montenegro, the Montenegro kids prove that they are still five years old. Daniela joins Regina, Erick, and Nina in the garden, and asks that Regina not set foot inside the living room, because David is there, and Daniela wouldn't want for poor little David to have a bad time at Casa Montenegro. Nina and Erick get upset when they find out that Regina and Jorge have been doubling dating with Miguel and Consuelo. That's when things get really heated between the three Montenegro children and they all start yelling and screeching at each other like five year olds who are fighting over who gets the last chocolate chip cookie. Nina finally shuts them up and puts them on time out and calls Regina and Daniela out on what they are doing wrong, but she fails to call out Erick on what he is doing wrong, because for Nina, her Chimp, can do NO WRONG. #NotCool #BadMother #MamasBoy
Rueda says that the divorce can come out sooner since he's both Julia and Eladio's lawyer. He tells them that he'll keep them informed and leaves. Now alone, the two talk about their love, and Eladio says that "circumstances" separated them (Uh, no, it was the fact that you bedded another woman, knocked her up with your spawn, made her raise that spawn, lied about it, etc). When Julia tells Eladio how bad she feels about all this, he tells her "not as much as I do". Eladio then starts going on and on about his love for her. It's real and eternal and he laments that they couldn't find a solution to this "marriage crisis". He has realized that they won't be together in this life, but his tattoo says that they'll be together in another life. *rolls eyes* Julia has tears in her eyes and is so touched with his words that she embraces him.
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Thursday, March 17, 2016
Pasión y Poder Jueves 3/17/16 #106
Chapter
106: Fallen Angels
So
many people trust the wrong people in their lives. Betrayal is no
respector of gender, relationship status, education, looks, or any
other human quality. It can happen to the rich or the poor. It's not
always about money, but when it is it's bigger than the owners of the
money because it often has its roots in things beyond greed. It also
has lingering effects into other areas of life. The next stop for
some of these people will not be the Twilight Zone that Rod Serling
wrote about, but it will be something equally unknown to them. I won't feel any pity when that happens. –
D.D.
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Pasion y Poder #105, Wednesday March 16, 2016
Lo Nuevo
Connie suffers alone, missing little Erick. Regina comes to visit her. Regina pours her heart out about seeing David and Dani together. Connie reminds her that she is now with Jorge. Regina wanted to get David away from her family, but now he's back in because of Dani. Connie says that because of one thing or another, neither of them can be with the one they love.
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Connie suffers alone, missing little Erick. Regina comes to visit her. Regina pours her heart out about seeing David and Dani together. Connie reminds her that she is now with Jorge. Regina wanted to get David away from her family, but now he's back in because of Dani. Connie says that because of one thing or another, neither of them can be with the one they love.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Pasion y Poder #104 20160314 Seriously! Everyone in the TN is Stupid!
We return to the nursery where Gina is shooting daggers at Dani. Gina doesn't approve of how Erick gained custody of the EJ (Erick Jr.). Erick assures his sister that Connie is fine with him ripping her heart out of her a$$ by taking her baby. He's given Connie permission to enjoy her daily supervised visits with his mother.
Gaby comes out of the bathroom. No baby again. Franco tells her that he is not in a hurry to knock her up until Eladio gives him the Gomez-Luna name. Gaby wants to go to the gyno (geez, I got the willies just thinking about that! I hate the gynecologist because it's just like going to the gynecologist!) Franco says that Eladio won't give him the surname until he divorces Julia. The thought of the divorce makes Franco frisky. He pushes Gaby back down on the bed.
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Gaby comes out of the bathroom. No baby again. Franco tells her that he is not in a hurry to knock her up until Eladio gives him the Gomez-Luna name. Gaby wants to go to the gyno (geez, I got the willies just thinking about that! I hate the gynecologist because it's just like going to the gynecologist!) Franco says that Eladio won't give him the surname until he divorces Julia. The thought of the divorce makes Franco frisky. He pushes Gaby back down on the bed.
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Saturday, March 12, 2016
Pasion y Poder #103 20160311 The Iowans Have Taken Over Mexico
Eladio stresses to Caridad that Marintia had better stick to the agreement and keep her mouth shut. If not, both of them will suffer the consequences.
Once again, Julia is moaning to Gaby about how she can't trust Eladio and will never forgive him. Gaby tells Julia to follow her heart and be happy. Lessoned learned ladies: if you don't have sex with your husband for over 20 years, he will eventually have sex with someone else. Correction: he will have sex with a lot of someone elses.
Franco tells Eladio about some protest that he is orchestrating at the Montenegro Riviera Maya construction site. Eladio isn't impressed until Franco explains that he has arranged for the press to be there. Eladio changes the subject to Marintia. Franco needs to tell her to keep her mouth shut. Franco says that he's got her under control. Eladio strongly disagrees. He tells Franco that Julia had better not get mad at him because of this. She doesn't like secrets. Speaking of Julia, she calls and asks Eladio to come home immediately.
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Once again, Julia is moaning to Gaby about how she can't trust Eladio and will never forgive him. Gaby tells Julia to follow her heart and be happy. Lessoned learned ladies: if you don't have sex with your husband for over 20 years, he will eventually have sex with someone else. Correction: he will have sex with a lot of someone elses.
Franco tells Eladio about some protest that he is orchestrating at the Montenegro Riviera Maya construction site. Eladio isn't impressed until Franco explains that he has arranged for the press to be there. Eladio changes the subject to Marintia. Franco needs to tell her to keep her mouth shut. Franco says that he's got her under control. Eladio strongly disagrees. He tells Franco that Julia had better not get mad at him because of this. She doesn't like secrets. Speaking of Julia, she calls and asks Eladio to come home immediately.
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