Friday, March 07, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Your Favorite Novela
...or novelas of all time. What are they and why are they your favorites? Do you favor a particular genre or is it the actors or authors that are the attraction?
Weigh in, amigos!
Weigh in, amigos!
Labels: telenovelas, weekend
Friday, February 14, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Alpha Males
However, after long observation, I have determined that there is an ideal male facial type that is very prominent among the alpha male types we encounter in entertainment. It consists of some combination of the following traits:
Labels: stars, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, January 31, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Controlling Mothers, Part II
Maternal Monsters, Part II
There are way more of these than
perhaps any other female villain because they can play so many cards
in the game of control. Guilt, money, religion; even sex isn't
exempt from their repertoire in their attempts to control their teen or
adult children. I was hoping to compile another Dirty Dozen, but
some of these are so spectacularly evil it just couldn't wait.
Please provide any more details if you can.
Labels: Alborada, eva, Fuerza, Karmageddon, Manda, mentir, refugio, robo, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, January 17, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Censorship, the Plague (Revisited)
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| Anthony Comstock, Father of Modern Censorship |
Note:
This is a revised version of the article published here about a year
ago.
What's
the Point?
We
complain about it all the time among ourselves. We should be
complaining to the networks about this.
About
eight years ago I heard this subject covered on Anderson Cooper's
program in which comments were made about the body heat being
generated before Mexican and other Hispanic TV cameras on our
favorite shows. The news team was wondering why the English-language
networks were being raked over the coals and submitted to the rack to
censor programs of this salacious material while the Univisions and
Telemundos were being left alone. No answer was forthcoming and I
don't recall them taking the subject very seriously, but I took this
seriously enough to call a VP at Univision to let her know about it.
I found the transcript of the broadcast online and sent the link to
her with a cover note. After she read the page she let me know that
nothing is going to interfere with the content of the programs. No
te preocupes.
Labels: Alborada, bravio, no-podia, QBA, robo, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, January 10, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Culture Shock
What cultural head-scratchers get you every time you watch a novela?
I'd love to know whether men and women still interact as though it were the Victorian age. Mexican women go to college and have careers; shouldn't that have eliminated the ridiculous notion that they exist only for their men and their children? Despite it being a comedy, the sexism in Por Ella Soy Eva really was disturbing. Do Mexican fathers really devalue their daughters like that?
Do parents really call their children "princesa," "mi reina", "mi rey," etc.? This really bugs me because I can't help thinking that this is more appropriate for a significant other. I can't help thinking that applying this to a child is spoiling them and giving them a sense of entitlement.
Sound off, amigos.
I'd love to know whether men and women still interact as though it were the Victorian age. Mexican women go to college and have careers; shouldn't that have eliminated the ridiculous notion that they exist only for their men and their children? Despite it being a comedy, the sexism in Por Ella Soy Eva really was disturbing. Do Mexican fathers really devalue their daughters like that?
Do parents really call their children "princesa," "mi reina", "mi rey," etc.? This really bugs me because I can't help thinking that this is more appropriate for a significant other. I can't help thinking that applying this to a child is spoiling them and giving them a sense of entitlement.
Sound off, amigos.
Labels: por-ella, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, January 03, 2014
Weekend Discussion: Fix This Novela!
Holà, Caraymates!
We've
seen quite a few series that had something going on to make the
ratings department happy but... a serious flaw or two that earned
derision from critics or unsatisfied viewers. Some of these got
really bad – like Corazón Indomable. Others just
needed a tweak or two, like Doña Barbara,
If
you could fix a flawed novela, how would you do it? What general
things would you do to fix the series to get it on track? We will
assume that any and all continuity errors would be corrected but what
general changes would you make?
I'll
start with one some of you really hated, Fuego en la Sangre.
It had excellent production values, photography, music, actors, and
a good basic story premise, but the writing didn't come up to the
rest. What I would have done with it:
Labels: barbara, duelo, Fuego, Indomable, Talisman, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, December 27, 2013
Weekend Discussion: New Stars? New Stories? Or Both?
I've been seeing posts over the last
year or so about “We need new young stars” and we've had
discussions in the past about developing new stories for our maturing
favorites. I don't see this as an either/or, but perhaps as being a
dual issue.
Televisa stopped producing stories
directed at teens due to lowered ratings a few years ago. I'd
personally love to know whether that was because of outdated story
types or declining attention spans among teens, which is a subject
that comes up all the time and is probably a worldwide problem. At the same time we've discussed how
remaking the same stories again and again is both lazy production and
evidence of risk-adversity.
There are some changes happening now,
as we see with Mentir Para Vivir and Por Siempre
Mi Amor, whose lead characters are a little more mature than
usual. They start out with spouses, children, other family members,
and more secrets than usual. Their lives are already complicated
before the curtain goes up on the opening episode. We are seeing
more teens and more children in these stories; I suspect that this is
to provide employment for the child and teen actors that would have
been in the teen and kid programs that aren't being produced. It's
one of the reasons that many series are now longer than they would have been fifteen years ago.
I'm not a kid anymore myself and it
sickens me that the entertainment industry already targets youth
often at the expense of adults who have more discretionary income to
attend movies and spend money on cars advertised on TV. We all want
to see ourselves in television characters and we want to see something that's realistic. What we don't want is a
world where someone's acting career is over because they're over 35 and
overexposed (in the sense of being hyped) young stars with minimal
experience and less talent.
Sound off, amigos.
Labels: mentir, siempre, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, December 13, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Controversial Subjects
Tuesday's
capitulo of Lo Que La Vida Me Robó provoked over 100
comments regarding the marital rape scene that echoed Gone With
the Wind in many respects [GWTW's scene is still being
debated today]. This may not have been the ideal way for the
writers to handle the wedding night of our flawed but otherwise
sympathetic protagonists, but a lot of bytes are being seriously
inconvenienced in internet postings from viewers debating all the
same hypotheses and issues we raised on Wednesday morning.
Which –
por supuesto – is always good for ratings.
Several
other series have provoked discussion in the last few years over
other highly controversial actions and interactions:
Labels: Alborada, amor, bravio, Fuerza, mentir, no-podia, pecado, robo, telenovelas, triunfo, weekend
Friday, December 06, 2013
Weekend Discussion: When Good Novelas Go Bad
We've seen it happen more than once and
it seems to happen more often in recent times than in the past. A
novela begins on a great note and suddenly the characters behave
inconsistently or the story makes no sense. We're seeing this now
with Corazón
Indomable, and
with the last quarter of Porque
el Amor Manda
when we went from a comedy to a …. circus of evil. Real
head-scratchers and we keep speculating why this happens.
Telemundo's
Aurora started out well, as a science fiction version of
Sleeping Beauty, but ended up bogging down in novela clichés
it may have first tried to avoid. Televisa's Mariana de la
Noche started out well even with the clichés
but moved into total unreality in the second half. At least that one
compensated by having a great leading man (Jorge Salinas) and an
equally great male villain (César
Évora).
What
other novelas have you seen that did this?
Labels: Indomable, Manda, telemundo, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, November 01, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Remakes (Again? Por Supuesto....)
While I am looking forward to Lo Que La Vida Me Robó I have to wonder just how long it should take to do a remake of anything, especially by the same network. I never saw the 1983 original (Bodas de Odio), so I don't have a basis for comparison to Amor Real. Updating the story to the present should change a few plot points and character traits, especially for the female protagonist.
There are many novelas remade multiple times by Televisa and for different reasons. I end up wondering why they try remaking something that's already perfect and whether anyone will ever stop to think that Enough is Enough and let's do something new for a change.
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There are many novelas remade multiple times by Televisa and for different reasons. I end up wondering why they try remaking something that's already perfect and whether anyone will ever stop to think that Enough is Enough and let's do something new for a change.
Read more »
Labels: robo, salvaje, telenovelas, triunfo, weekend
Friday, October 18, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Virtual Feast
Virtual Feast
Food, whether we're talking basic,
ethnic, plain, or fancy, is what keeps us going. We see beautiful
kitchens in the homes of our fictional friends on TV: Big kitchen
tables are laden with gorgeous produce, garlic is hanging over the
counter space, spice shelves are loaded with jars, and wonder what
Maria, the cook, is preparing for our protagonists. I keep wishing
that Televisa would put out a cookbook with the recipes from each
series.
Every once in a while we need to talk
about this universally-loved subject. Do you like to cook? Do you
tend to cook for parties, family, a special significant other? Do
you like to experiment?
As we get closer to the finale of PEAM,
there will probably be parties in front of the TV. What are you
planning to make? If you're not entertaining, what would you make if
we all got together?
I freely admit I make stuff that some
people think are real head-scratchers. Here is a dessert I've
brought to a friend's place for Easter; I even made it with
sugar-free filling!:
Now with fall in full swing and winter coming, what do you like to cook? How did you learn? If you have children, did you teach them?
Seriously, I have only ever known about three people who didn't like food. They all had other major issues.
Labels: Manda, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, September 13, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Most Annoying Characters
Many
novelas have characters that just annoy us whether they were meant to
or not. This could be because of poor acting, the character's bad
timing, character stupidity, or just plain being out of place in the
story. This character can be any age and of either sex. These are characters we would never write into the story or wouldn't write the way they are appearing to us.
I'll start
by nominating Almira of Qué Bonito Amor. Her
inconsistent behavior in supporting and then slamming Maria's choices
would be gaslighting behavior in a villana, but she never quite comes
off as being intelligent enough to use this as a control tactic. That made all of us want to slap her flat.
Labels: no-podia, QBA, telenovelas, weekend
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Your Favorite Novela Subgenres
Historically, novelas have mostly focused on romance and its various difficulties, joys, and pain. In recent years we're seeing more comedy ones, mysteries, and violent narcotrafficante stories. What is your preference and why?
Labels: telenovelas, weekend
Friday, July 19, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Broadcast Formats
In the last few years we've had our ups and downs with double episodes, episodes and a half, and time slot changes. Putting aside our specific issues about how this affects us, how do you feel about this?
I'm just old enough to remember the days when US soaps were only half an hour. That never felt right; I always felt cheated, especially about Dark Shadows. NBC's Another World was the first soap to go to a one hour episode length in 1978 and that was the beginning of the trend for the rest. A later attempt at 90-minute episodes failed and the program went back to 60-minute episodes.
The current broadcast pattern of QBA has an episode and a half with one commercial break and a slightly earlier start time not given to the cable and satellite systems that carry Univision. It seems to work for the network or they wouldn't be doing it. Televisa scripts are written to make for a major or minor cliffhanger at the halfway mark or the end of the standard-length episode so that they can air in any 30-minute increment, which is why we usually don't feel like the broadcast is ending on the wrong note. All this requires is (usually) deleting the "in last night's episode" section at the beginning and picking up where the previous night's episode left off. No objections from me!
If you weren't blogging this series, what is your preferred episode length? Would you want the networks to repeat the episode after midnight or on a sister network just in case? Do you prefer watching them on Hulu or anything similar? How do you feel about limited commercial breaks? Trust me; if a program remains in prime time with fewer ads, those advertisers are paying more for that time.
I'm just old enough to remember the days when US soaps were only half an hour. That never felt right; I always felt cheated, especially about Dark Shadows. NBC's Another World was the first soap to go to a one hour episode length in 1978 and that was the beginning of the trend for the rest. A later attempt at 90-minute episodes failed and the program went back to 60-minute episodes.
The current broadcast pattern of QBA has an episode and a half with one commercial break and a slightly earlier start time not given to the cable and satellite systems that carry Univision. It seems to work for the network or they wouldn't be doing it. Televisa scripts are written to make for a major or minor cliffhanger at the halfway mark or the end of the standard-length episode so that they can air in any 30-minute increment, which is why we usually don't feel like the broadcast is ending on the wrong note. All this requires is (usually) deleting the "in last night's episode" section at the beginning and picking up where the previous night's episode left off. No objections from me!
If you weren't blogging this series, what is your preferred episode length? Would you want the networks to repeat the episode after midnight or on a sister network just in case? Do you prefer watching them on Hulu or anything similar? How do you feel about limited commercial breaks? Trust me; if a program remains in prime time with fewer ads, those advertisers are paying more for that time.
Labels: QBA, telenovelas, weekend
Saturday, June 08, 2013
Weekend Discussion: The Cost of Novela Living
We often hear money being talked about and wonder what things really cost in Mexico for the characters we love, hate, and debate about. Lo and behold, a website called Nubeo provides this information. Another one called World Salaries gives average salaries in a number of countries, although it doesn't provide as full a list for Mexico as for the US.
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Labels: Indomable, Manda, QBA, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, May 31, 2013
Weekend Discussion: An open letter from your fans; Televisa, you need our help.
High-definition
TV probably sounded like the greatest thing in the world … until we
realized that many of our favorite actors and actresses are aging
past the age your writers usually assign to protagonists. There does
not seem to be an easy transition for a still-handsome and still-fit
actor to go from the almost-innocent young Romeo to the worldly-wise
Prospero because there are almost no lead roles in between those two.
Actors like Fernando Colunga and Jorge Salinas are continually cast
as characters younger than themselves in remake after remake of older
stories without adequate story adjustment for their stage of maturity
and we think they deserve better. While telenovelas have much in
common with opera, there are a few casting limitations that Placido
Domingo never had to deal with.
People in
their forties and fifties still fall in love, can still leave
unsatisfying careers and start over, still move to distant places.
Women in their forties can still have babies and men in their fifties
can still become fathers (not that this is necessarily recommended).
These things were not all that relevant back when the network was
born, but they are now and will continue to be.
Labels: telenovelas, weekend
Friday, May 24, 2013
Weekend Discussion: What do you want from the novelas you watch?
It's 2013 and we're watching remakes upon remakes, many of which are barely updated to take more modern attitudes into consideration. We see more bare flesh than in 1990, but hear no discussion of birth control. Abortion is still a taboo subject and we see very little about pedophilia.
We're still shocked, however, when a female character is raped and especially when she is particularly vulnerable, like Solecita in Corazon Indomable. We should be outraged, indeed.
What do you want to see? How do you want to feel after you see an episode?
I want to see more stories that consistently reflect current human reality. Women with education and confidence who aren't afraid to face the world on their own terms. Current attitudes about religion, class structure, education, and human behavior. What are real workplace dynamics?
Please, no comic relief in the middle of something violent, serious, and/or emotional. That is bad writing because it interferes with the emotional impact of the main events. It also makes the whole episode less memorable.
No sudden detours or about-faces; think out a story before committing it to the computer screen. El Fantasma de Elena could have been a great supernatural story about ghosts and werewolves if some writer hadn't decided three weeks into shooting that they needed to change this to a psycho twin story (though I do give them credit for a great final fate for the villana).
Be consistent with the period of the story. If you're going to have the characters get DNA tests to show kinship, why don't they have cell phones?
Rant away, amigos.
We're still shocked, however, when a female character is raped and especially when she is particularly vulnerable, like Solecita in Corazon Indomable. We should be outraged, indeed.
What do you want to see? How do you want to feel after you see an episode?
I want to see more stories that consistently reflect current human reality. Women with education and confidence who aren't afraid to face the world on their own terms. Current attitudes about religion, class structure, education, and human behavior. What are real workplace dynamics?
Please, no comic relief in the middle of something violent, serious, and/or emotional. That is bad writing because it interferes with the emotional impact of the main events. It also makes the whole episode less memorable.
No sudden detours or about-faces; think out a story before committing it to the computer screen. El Fantasma de Elena could have been a great supernatural story about ghosts and werewolves if some writer hadn't decided three weeks into shooting that they needed to change this to a psycho twin story (though I do give them credit for a great final fate for the villana).
Be consistent with the period of the story. If you're going to have the characters get DNA tests to show kinship, why don't they have cell phones?
Rant away, amigos.
Labels: Indomable, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, May 17, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Las Mascotas; Animals in Telenovelas
We don't get enough animals in telenovelas that are characters. We saw many prize bulls [Salud!] in Amor Bravio, horses in others, but rarely do these animals have names or enough screen time. Animals are such big parts of many of our lives it's hard to believe that more novela characters don't have pets. The mascotas in novelas, though, are often amusing and endearing.
In El Cuerpo del Deseo, the hero had a dog who was smart enough to spot his master after his spirit changed bodies (Dog may actually be star Mario Cimarro's dog):
Cuando Me Enamoro had a beautiful horse named Gitana that was much beloved by the heroine:
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In El Cuerpo del Deseo, the hero had a dog who was smart enough to spot his master after his spirit changed bodies (Dog may actually be star Mario Cimarro's dog):
Cuando Me Enamoro had a beautiful horse named Gitana that was much beloved by the heroine:
Labels: Amores, bravio, Cuando, cuerpo, eva, familia, Fuego, Fuerza, Indomable, Manda, QBA, telenovelas, weekend
Monday, April 29, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Producers Novelographies - Updated March 9, 2015
These lists are not purported to be exhaustive, to name
every single producer and every single telenovela ever made. For the purposes of this list, most of the producers made telenovelas for Televisa, or were shown on prime-time on Univision and recapped on CarayCaray. The titles in Bold feature the current prime time line-up or coming soon. Since then, several have been added broadcasting on Telemundo and TV Azteca.
Producers with telenovelas currently broadcasting.
3 - 4 pm
Carlos
Moreno Laguillo – (1999-2013)
Quiero Amarte (2013) Karyme Lozano, Cristian de la Fuente
This is a remake of Imperio de Cristal (1994)
Quiero Amarte starts in the past, when Mauro Montesinos and Elena, the heiress to the coffee plantation, “El Paraíso,” fall in love. They have a child together, Juliana. Elena dies and Mauro is widowed and Juliana motherless. Mauro finds love again when he meets Florencia, the owner of some nearby coffee lands. Just before he is to marry Florencia, Lucrecia, an old "friend," reels him into a loveless marriage with the news she is expecting his child. Later on, Lucrecia finds out Mauro still loves Florencia, even though Florencia has married Mauro's best friend, David, who is also the administrator of Mauro's family coffee plantation. David and Florencia have one child, Amaya. Mauro and Lucrecia have two sons, César, the eldest, Maximiliano and twins Lucio and Flavia. In the present, Max and Amaya fall in love, but evil, secrets, ambitions and pain surround them to keep them from realizing their love.
It also stars Diana Bracho, Flavio Medina and Salvador Zerboni as the antagonists, with the participation of Alex Sirvent, Jose Elias Moreno, Otto Sirgo and Olivia Bucio. Andrés Mercado and Renata Notni star as the young protagonists.
Amor Bravío** (2012) Silvia Navarro, Cristian de la Fuente
Cuando Me Enamoro (2011) Silvia Navarro, Juan Soler
En Nombre del Amor (2008) Alisson Lozz, Sebastian Zurita
Sueños y Caramelos (2005)
Bajo la Misma Piel (2003)
Por Tu Amor (1999) Gaby Spanic, Margarita Magana
Nunca Te Olivdaré (1999) Edith Gonzales & Fernando Colunga (Moreno produced Part II)
** AB was a merger of “De Pura Sangre,” written by Maria Zarattini and "En los cuernos del amor," a new story by Martha Carrillo and Cristina Garcia.
7 – 8 pm
MaPat López de Zatarain
Read more »Quiero Amarte (2013) Karyme Lozano, Cristian de la Fuente
This is a remake of Imperio de Cristal (1994)
Quiero Amarte starts in the past, when Mauro Montesinos and Elena, the heiress to the coffee plantation, “El Paraíso,” fall in love. They have a child together, Juliana. Elena dies and Mauro is widowed and Juliana motherless. Mauro finds love again when he meets Florencia, the owner of some nearby coffee lands. Just before he is to marry Florencia, Lucrecia, an old "friend," reels him into a loveless marriage with the news she is expecting his child. Later on, Lucrecia finds out Mauro still loves Florencia, even though Florencia has married Mauro's best friend, David, who is also the administrator of Mauro's family coffee plantation. David and Florencia have one child, Amaya. Mauro and Lucrecia have two sons, César, the eldest, Maximiliano and twins Lucio and Flavia. In the present, Max and Amaya fall in love, but evil, secrets, ambitions and pain surround them to keep them from realizing their love.
It also stars Diana Bracho, Flavio Medina and Salvador Zerboni as the antagonists, with the participation of Alex Sirvent, Jose Elias Moreno, Otto Sirgo and Olivia Bucio. Andrés Mercado and Renata Notni star as the young protagonists.
Amor Bravío** (2012) Silvia Navarro, Cristian de la Fuente
Cuando Me Enamoro (2011) Silvia Navarro, Juan Soler
En Nombre del Amor (2008) Alisson Lozz, Sebastian Zurita
Sueños y Caramelos (2005)
Bajo la Misma Piel (2003)
Por Tu Amor (1999) Gaby Spanic, Margarita Magana
Nunca Te Olivdaré (1999) Edith Gonzales & Fernando Colunga (Moreno produced Part II)
** AB was a merger of “De Pura Sangre,” written by Maria Zarattini and "En los cuernos del amor," a new story by Martha Carrillo and Cristina Garcia.
7 – 8 pm
MaPat López de Zatarain
La Sombra del Pasado (2014) - This is a remake of El Manantial (2001), originally produced by Carla Estrada. Began broadcasting Feb 16, 2015. (See synopsis elsewhere)
Susana Gonzalez
Alejandra Barros
Cynthia Klitbo
Lissette
Alexis Ayala
8 - 9 pm
Susana Gonzalez
Alejandra Barros
Cynthia Klitbo
Lissette
Alexis Ayala
8 - 9 pm
Juan Osorio
Ortiz – (1999-2014)
Mi Corazón Es Tuyo (2014) Silvia Navarro, Jorge Salinas, and Mayrín Villanueva
Life hasn’t been easy for Ana who works as an exotic dancer in a club and has just lost the home she struggled to own. She knows she has to start over. Through a clerical error at an employment agency, Ana finds herself applying for the job of “nanny” to a wealthy widower, Fernando, with seven difficult children. Somehow, without credentials or a cultured background, Ana manages to charm the children and help in the recovery process from the loss of their mother. Meanwhile, Fernando pursues a woman with a suitable pedigree, but it becomes increasingly obvious that he is smitten with Ana and she is smitten with him.
Mi Corazón Es Tuyo (2014) Silvia Navarro, Jorge Salinas, and Mayrín Villanueva
Life hasn’t been easy for Ana who works as an exotic dancer in a club and has just lost the home she struggled to own. She knows she has to start over. Through a clerical error at an employment agency, Ana finds herself applying for the job of “nanny” to a wealthy widower, Fernando, with seven difficult children. Somehow, without credentials or a cultured background, Ana manages to charm the children and help in the recovery process from the loss of their mother. Meanwhile, Fernando pursues a woman with a suitable pedigree, but it becomes increasingly obvious that he is smitten with Ana and she is smitten with him.
Porque el
Amor Manda (2012) Blanca Soto, Fernando Colunga
Una Familia
Con Suerte (2011) Luz Elena González, Arath de la Torre
Mi Pecado
(2009) Maiter Perroni, Eugenio Soler
Tormenta en
el Paraíso (2007) Sara Maldonado, Erick Elias, Mariana Seoane
Duelo de
Pasiones (2006) Ludwika Paleta, Pablo Montero, Sergio Goyri, Erika Buenfil
Siempre Te
Amaré (2000) Laura Flores, Fernando Carrillo
Nunca Te
Olvidaré (1999) Edith González, Fernando Colunga (Produced Part I)
Marisol (1996) Erika Buenfil is in this
9 - 10 pm
9 - 10 pm
Nicandro
Diaz Gonzalez – (1999-2014)
Hasta el Fin del Mundo (2014) Marjorie De Sousa, Pedro Fernandez, and Julian Gil
Hasta el Fin del Mundo (2014) Marjorie De Sousa, Pedro Fernandez, and Julian Gil
This is the story of Sofia, the oldest of three sisters, who
takes the helm of her family’s chocolate factory after her father’s death.
Engaged to a man who is ambitious and using her as a stepping stone, she feels
an immediate and mutual attraction to Salvador, a race-car driver who, due to
an unfortunate circumstance, lost his job and gets a job as her chauffeur.
Sofia and Salvador learn that despite the hurdles, love is possible.
Amores
Verdaderos (2012) Erika Buenfil, Eduardo Yañez, Eiza Gonzalez, Sebastian Rulli
- Winner 2014 Permio TV y Novelas
Soy tu
Dueña (2010) Lucero, Fernando Colunga
Mañana es
Para Siempre (2008) Silvia Navarro, Fernando Colunga
Destilando Amor (2007) Angélica Rivera and Eduardo Yañez
(Carayers loved it)
Corazones
al Limites (2004) Erika Buenful, Arturo Peniche (for teens)
Alma
Rebelde (1999) Lisette Morelos, Eduardo Verástegui
10-11 pm
Angelli Nesme Medina (2004-2014)
Que te Perdone Dios (2014) Zuria Vega, Mark Tacher, Rebecca Jones, Sabine Moussier, Sergio Goyri, Erik del Castillo, Altair Jarabo. This is a remake of Abrazame Muy Fuerte.
Lo Que la Vida me Robo (2013) Angelique Boyer, Sebastian Rulli, Daniela Castro*
Abismo de Pasion (2011) Angelique Boyer, David Zepeda, Mark Tacher
Llena de Amor (2010) Ariadne Diaz, Valentino Lanus
Un Gancho al Corazon (2008) Danna Garcia, Sebastian Rulli
Al Diablo con los Guapos (2007) Alison Lozz, Eugenio Siller
Amar Sin Limites (2006) Karyme Lozano, Valentino Lanus
Apuesta por un Amor (2004) Patricia Manterola, Juan Soler
*an updated version of Bodas de Odio with some Amor Real thrown into the mix.
10-11 pm
Angelli Nesme Medina (2004-2014)
Que te Perdone Dios (2014) Zuria Vega, Mark Tacher, Rebecca Jones, Sabine Moussier, Sergio Goyri, Erik del Castillo, Altair Jarabo. This is a remake of Abrazame Muy Fuerte.
Lo Que la Vida me Robo (2013) Angelique Boyer, Sebastian Rulli, Daniela Castro*
Abismo de Pasion (2011) Angelique Boyer, David Zepeda, Mark Tacher
Llena de Amor (2010) Ariadne Diaz, Valentino Lanus
Un Gancho al Corazon (2008) Danna Garcia, Sebastian Rulli
Al Diablo con los Guapos (2007) Alison Lozz, Eugenio Siller
Amar Sin Limites (2006) Karyme Lozano, Valentino Lanus
Apuesta por un Amor (2004) Patricia Manterola, Juan Soler
*an updated version of Bodas de Odio with some Amor Real thrown into the mix.
Labels: proximas, telenovelas, weekend
Friday, April 26, 2013
Weekend Discussion: Food!
One of the things I love about novelas is the kitchen scenes. The kitchens of the mansions and haciendas all look like such welcoming places, full of Andalucian tile and gorgeous produce on the tables that one of the first things I would do if I won a huge lottery is buy a house large enough to have a kitchen like that.
We often note the food because hospitality is a dictate of the ancient gods and because it often demonstrates the relationship of the characters who are sharing the food. We all fell in love with the cooking scenes in Amor Bravio that showed the bonding of Viviana and Rafael and the love between Piedad and her daughter. The waitress in last night's restaurant scene in Que Bonito Amor explaining the dish she served Santos was clearly proud of it and of her country's cuisine. She had a most welcoming attitude. Gala of Un Refugio Para El Amor and Veronica in Porque el Amor Manda use food as a weapon of control; I cringe at the possibility that Valentina will have eating disorders when she's older.
So..... do you enjoy cooking? Do you get creative with it? Do you favor any particular cuisine? Do you have a signature dish you contribute to potlucks and other parties? Do you watch anything on the Food Network?
Finally, do you have a favorite food scene from a novela (just to keep this from being totally off-topic)?
We often note the food because hospitality is a dictate of the ancient gods and because it often demonstrates the relationship of the characters who are sharing the food. We all fell in love with the cooking scenes in Amor Bravio that showed the bonding of Viviana and Rafael and the love between Piedad and her daughter. The waitress in last night's restaurant scene in Que Bonito Amor explaining the dish she served Santos was clearly proud of it and of her country's cuisine. She had a most welcoming attitude. Gala of Un Refugio Para El Amor and Veronica in Porque el Amor Manda use food as a weapon of control; I cringe at the possibility that Valentina will have eating disorders when she's older.
So..... do you enjoy cooking? Do you get creative with it? Do you favor any particular cuisine? Do you have a signature dish you contribute to potlucks and other parties? Do you watch anything on the Food Network?
Finally, do you have a favorite food scene from a novela (just to keep this from being totally off-topic)?
Labels: bravio, Manda, QBA, refugio, telenovelas, weekend
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