Caray, Caray!

It’s finally here! The triumphant return of Fernando Colunga!! And he’ll be playing the bad guy!

If that’s not enough, Jorge Salinas will also star!

But wait! There’s more! Susana Gonzalez will also round out the cast.

You’re still not convinced? Then read Mauricio’s synopsis and character descriptions HERE.

That’s right, folks…Pasión y Poder premieres Tuesday, November 3 at 9/8C and recappers are needed!

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Hello all . As you may have noticed I have not been active much regarding No Creo recaps. At the eve of the new semester I have begun experiencing troubles on a personal scale. It has been getting tough to get used to it while following shows at the same time. It's easier and more relaxing watching shows than doing something detailed about  them like writing summaries.
I admit that at first when I began writing it felt short term but then I began learning more and more I realized that you are either on a podium or you are not on a podium at all.

During my short term absence I have been fairly surprised that many people are eager to help me out just to not disappoint our  readers.   .  If you can find anyone willing to do it than I would be most pleased.

Participating  on other projects is very unlikely but I will definitely keep mark of the blog because the people on it are unlike anything I have experienced on the Web. There are many shows getting released that I am looking forward to such as Pasion Y Poder , Gran Hotel, Amor De Barrio and  Corazon Que Miente so I am definitely not out of this world even if it it sounds weird  for a man . I have learned a lot from writing here and have enjoyed it very much.

Labels: no-creo, recappers-needed

The patio is getting set up and the recapping team is set!
Monday: Jane
Tuesday: Sara
Wednesday: Jarifa
Thursday: Cece
Friday: Marta

Synopsis:
This is the story of Lichita, the most ignored employee at the Icónkia ad agency. When she landed the job at Icoónika, she had high hopes of moving up quickly in the company. Unfortunately, she's in a rut and her career is going nowhere. She is in fact, invisible.

Tired of being "Lichicienta" and not being recognized for her years of hard work, Lichita decides to change and recover what she deserves. She decides to stop being Lichita and become Alicia. She would rather be dead than ever go back to being "Lichita"!
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Patio peeps, sadly we lost a recapper on the Imperdonable team so we have an open spot for Wednesday nights, I would continue to write the recaps myself but I'm committed to MIVC on the same night and can't do two recaps in one night, plus I also have my regular spot on Tuesday night's, that's three recaps in two days!

This is where you come in! If you would like to recap you can have the Wednesday night spot! We can't offer much in the way of compensation, but we might be able to throw in some gold, because Novela Maven knows a guy that knows a guy, some good company on the patio and the opportunity to have first dibs when the new Salinas/Colunga novela rolls in later this fall.

Oh yes, you heard that right. Salinas, and Colunga sharing the same space! You dear potential recapper have a shot of getting on that recapping team if you join us on the LI team.

Please let us know as we really, really,really need the help!

*Discalimer, we really can't offer gold but we do have Salinas and Colunga, which some would argue are better than gold, especially Colunga when he takes his shirt off!*

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Gran Estreno: Tuesday, August 25 7/6CST

From the desk of Diva, the team leader:

The Muchacha Italiana team is looking for two new team members!

We are a supportive team of smartasses, dedicated to blending translation, commentary, critique, and curse words into rollicking recaps for the entertainment and education of our peeps on the patio.

Do you enjoy watching telenovelas? Do you often find yourself talking out loud to the screen? Do you stalk Caray, Caray! waiting for the next recap to post so you can find out whether you're the only one who noticed that thing...you know, the thing that happened, but it probably shouldn't have happened, because didn't they rule that out in episode 5? Then this might be the job for you!

Qualified applicants are self-starting team players with good communication skills. Both first-time and experienced recappers are encouraged to apply! We offer a competitive salary* and comprehensive benefits package.**

Frequently Asked Questions:

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Those of you interested in viewing this one feel free to step up, even if it's only highlites/bullet points.  Otherwise, it may go uncovered.    
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--Thanks in advance!

Labels: no-creo, que-te, recappers-needed

After complaints that some of our plot summaries were full of spoilers, here is a brief one for the upcoming Lo imperdonable. If you want to recap, write me at caray@mappamundi.com - blog mom.

Martín (Iván Sánchez) hurries to Mina Escondida after getting an urgent letter from his brother begging to be rescued from the hell in which he's living. On arrival, Martin despairs upon finding out that Demetrio (Pablo Montero), his brother, has committed suicide. His sorrow is transformed into hatred and a thirst for vengeance against the woman who caused his brother suffering and brought him to death.

Full of resentment, Martín swears before the tomb of his brother that he will get revenge against this ruthless woman, he will cause her to fall in love and he will drag her to the green hell of this jungle in which he will despise her as she despised his brother.

The first clue to the culprit's identity is a medallion his brother always kept with him, engraved with the name "V. Prado Castelo." Martin returns to the capital, knowing that Prado Castelo is the biggest jewelry business in the country. He aims to grow close to the family. He makes the acquaintance of Emiliano (Sergio Sendel), only heir to the fortune, newly arrived in México after years of absence.

Martín meets Verónica (Ana Brenda) and Virginia (Grettell Valdez), Emiliano's cousins who were adopted by the elder Prado Castelo. Martín is struck by Veronica's beauty and her force of character. He is not, however, her only admirer: Emiliano has returned with the intention of marrying her, having loved her since childhood - not realizing the one who is obsessed with him is Virginia.

Little by little Martin falls in love with Verónica but believes the lies Virginia tells about her, including that she had caused Demetrio to fall in love and had then abandoned him….

Labels: imperdonable, proximas, recappers-needed, synopsis-cast

Please contact the blogmom at jane@mappamundi.com if you would like to recap

Time: 7PM/6CST
Producer: MaPat López de Zatarain
Created by: José Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Víctor Manuel Medina Cervantes,
Written by: María Del Carmen Peña
Source material: El Manantial

Santa Lucía is a small town where everyone knows each other and rumors spread like wildfire. Here live two families and over the years they have had many differences and accumulated resentments.

Our tale begins at the hacienda Las Ánimas where the baptism of Cristóbal (Pablo Lyle...eventually), the first born of Severiano Mendoza (Alexis Ayala) and his wife Candela (Alejandra Barros) is being celebrated. The family is rich, powerful and respected in Santa Lucía and the entire town is present for the party.
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We have two recappers for this new show: Corazon Salvaje and CountXAlacran (new!). Anybody else in? You can read the synopsis here:
http://countxqueteperdonedios.blogspot.com/2015/01/que-te-perdone-dios.html

Labels: que-te, recappers-needed, synopsis-cast

If you have seen the mysterious ads then you know that a new telenovela, Que Te Perdone Dios, is starting January 19th on Univision in the 10pm slot replacing La Malquerida. It's produced by Angelli Nesma Medina (Lo Que La Vida Me Robo) and stars Rebecca Jones, Sergio Goyri, Zuria Vega and Mark Tacher. This joint Televisa-Univision telenovela will premier in the United States first, and then in Mexico in February. Because of this, there aren’t many images or info available. You might ask, what happened to all those other tns that started in Mexico in 2014 that we have heard so much buzz about? When are we going to get to see Yo No Creo En Los Hombres, La Sombra del Pasado, or El Color de la Pasión? Who knows!  If you are interested in recapping Que Te Perdone Dios, please contact Blog Mom Jane/Melinama at: caray@mappamundi.com
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Anybody wanting to give recapping a try alternating Wed. for MCET just let me or Melinama know.

Thanks in advance.

--Jardinera654

Labels: mcet, recappers-needed

We need a new recapper to now help Julia on alternate Wednesdays for Mi Corazón Es Tuyo (the 8PM Eastern time slot).   Martai is switching to Tuesdays.

Please let Melinama or me know.

Thanks!

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We have a new TN starting on August 25th, this coming Monday, that will be replacing Que Pobres Tan Ricos, entitled La Malquerida. If you would like to recap this TN, please email our Blog Mom at caray@mappamundi.com or me at navygurl75@gmail.com.  I am going to give you some background on this TN first and then a brief synopsis with pictures of the cast. Shall we begin?

La Malquerida is based on a play and not the usual remake after remake of a previously done TN. This TN is based on a book of the same name as the TN by the Spanish Author Jacinto Benavente. He was a Nobel Prize Winner for Literature. The book was published in 1913. There were two movies based on this play. The first was an American Silent Film, entitled "Passion Flower" and was released in 1921. It starred Norma Talmadge and Courtenay Foote. The second movie was a Mexican Production, released in 1949, entitled La Malquerida and it starred Dolores del Rio and Pedro Armendariz. The Producer of this TN, Jose Alberto Castro has stated that he based this TN on the book alone and not the movies.  Now on to the synopsis. This will be a barebones synopsis so as to avoid spoilers.

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This is the telenovela replacing Lo que la vida me robo; it's starting Monday August 18. Robo blogging team, please write me at caray@mappamundi.com and let me know if you are staying on for "Hasta." Anybody else who's interested, let me know.

Sofía Ripoll Bandy (Marjorie de Sousa), a tough, beautiful, intelligent and distinguished woman, is director general of the Ripoli Factory, the girlfriend of Patricio Iturbe (Julian Gil) and the older sister of Alexa and Daniela. She is head of the family business.

Salvador Cruz aka Chava (Pedro Fernández), a simple, noble and sympathetic man, a race car driver and mechanic, met Sofia when he lost the chance to compete in an important race. Both felt an immediate attraction, the start of a history during which they will have to overcome obstacles thrown in their path by Patricio - an ambitious man who uses Sofia to rise in the business hierarchy - and Silvana Blanco (Mariana Seoane) - the supposed best friend of Sofia. Patricio and Silvana form an alliance to obstruct Sofia and Salvador.

Alexa Ripoll Bandy (Claudia Álvarez) is an extroverted, capricious girl, doted on by her mother, just back from Spain. A great attraction arises between her and Armando Romero, Salvador's friend, causing jealousy in Irma, Armando's girlfriend and mother of Nando.

Daniela Ripoll Bandy (Jade Fraser) is the youngest of the sisters, a pretty girl who lights up the house. She meets Lucas Cavazos at a shopping mall; he will become the love of her life. He is spontaneous and sympathetic. Lucas undertakes several illegal jobs to help his grandmother.

Fausto Rangel (Alejandro Tommasi), head servant in the mansion, is a man of exquisite taste. He counsels the Ripoli women and dedicates himself body and soul to them, living through the most unusual situations with them.

Greta Bandy de Ripoll (Olivia Bucio), widowed mother of the three daughters, is hiding a secret that will change the lives of her daughter Sofia and also of Francisco "Paco" Fernández (César Évora), shop keeper in the Union colonia and father of Araceli (Ximena Herrera), who struggles insatiably for Salvador's love.

The characters are seeking the road to happiness. Sofia and Salvador fight for their love, beginning a voyage that will carry them to the end of the world.

Labels: hasta, recappers-needed, robo, synopsis-cast

Thanks to Eli  we seem now to have a full team, hopefully, but there is room for another part-time recapper on Thursdays to alternate with AdrianaNoel's night if the mood hits one of you.  There is no right or wrong way to do a recap, so anyone with a hankering to give it a whirl, or anybody wanting to keep their hand in it, feel free to email with the appropiate icon below.....  Otherwise, you can easily guess what my gmail address should be and/or Melinama's mapamundi address at the bottom of the sidebar.

Labels: mcet, recappers-needed

[This one starts next Monday, 3/10/14]

Natalia and Diego meet during a festival of Tuxpan Veracruz fishermen, where Natalia will be crowned queen.  Love springs forth from the first instant in which they see each other.  Both are completely ignorant about who each is, which is no obstacle when beginning their romance.

For this reason Natalia doesn’t learn that Diego has a twin brother, Rodrigo, who has competed all his life with him.  He, when learning about his brother’s new romance, has no qualms about impersonating him. And, the night of Natalia’s coronation he shows up as his brother, Diego.

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Labels: recappers-needed, synopsis-cast, te-quiero

Sorry to be so late, folks. This looks like fun. Even though it's late, I'm considering taking a day. We have space for others. See sidebar.

The Rich Learn a Lesson

A story of love, romance, and amusing situations; families that have nothing in common but are now obliged to live in the same house: on one side, Los Ruizpalacios, millionaires of great social background and on the other Los Menchaca, a classic family of the barrio.

It begins when grandmother Mati Ruizpalacios can no longer run the family business. Her favorite grandson Miguel Ángel - who has been living in London for 11 years - must return to Mexico because his grandfather Don Aureliano's will states: "The company will go to the first of my grandsons who gets formally married and has a son."

Miguel's cousin Alejo is an ambitious enemy who involves Miguel in a dirty fraud and causes him and his family to lose their fortune and all their property except one piece of land in the La Nopalera neighborhood on which, surprisingly, the Menchaca family is now living.

Don Chuy Menchaca is a retired fighter called "The Son of Sumatra" who, many years ago, knew Don Aureliano Ruizpalacios, to whom he has been paying off the property mortgage little by little.

After the death of the rich empresario, the debt was never settled because Don Chuy doesn't have the deed for the property where he has not only his house but also a modest gymnasium that isn't earning much money these days and which he's thought about transforming into a home-style Mexican resturant with the help of his sons José Tizoc and Perla Ivette and his eldest daughter Lupita, who has a son Emiliano (adored by his grandfather).

Don Chuy is forced by circumstances to take in Miguel Angel and his impoverished family; they move to Italia Street in La Nopalera.

For his part, depressed and broke, Miguel Angel comes to live in, or rather endure, the colony La Nopalera. He's accompanied by his odd family: his mother Ana Sofia, an eccentric society woman who organizes charity events but at heart despises those who are not of "her class;" his brother Leonardo, a classic mirey(?) who has studied art in New York; and Frida, his little sister, apparently socially minded but attached to her life of luxury and comfort.

Clashes between the customs and habits of each family are inevitable, it's a funny, chaotic environment. Lupita and Miguel, who start off as the mediators for their families, will end up falling for each other and together confronting adversity to defend their love and overcome all obstacles.

Labels: pobres, recappers-needed, synopsis-cast

Hola out there in Caray Caray land. There is a new TN starting on January 6, 2014 at 10:00pm  called "Que Pobres Tan Ricos". It's basically about a very rich family that loses their lana (money) and must move in with a poor family.  I am putting up some pictures of the cast and Melinama, our blog Mom, will put up a synopsis soon.
Sylvia Pasquel as Ana Sofia Romagnoli vda de Ruiz Palacios, she is the Matriarch of the Rich Ruiz Palacios family.

Manuel "Flaco" Ibanez as Don Jesus "Chuy" Menchaca as the Patriarch of the  poor family.

Jaime Camil as Miguel Angel Ruiz-Palacios Romagnoli accused of course, of something he didn't do. Hides in plain sight.



Zuria Vega as Maria Guadalupe "Lupita" Menchaco she butts heads with Miguel Angel a lot!



Mark Tacher as Alejo Ruiz Palacios Saravia he's a bad hat that wants it all.

Ingrid Martz as Minerva Fontanent Blanco. She's back!  I bet she isn't so blanco don't you? She is the girlfriend of Mark Tacher above.

Arturo Peniche as Nepomuceno Escandiondas " Rey del Plantano"

If you would like to recap this TN please contact our blog Mom Melinama at:

caray@mappamundi.com

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