Saturday, March 26, 2011
The new novela, Teresa: plot summary. Airs 9 pm starting Wednesday, March 30
Folks, I have been absent for a couple months researching Yiddish cabaret music from Warsaw Poland between the world wars. I just couldn't get into any of our current shows, and I don't have a tv in my room any more! Hopefully something will come along soon that I can like, but this one ain't it. Here is the summary, though...
The game of seduction has a name: Teresa
We always want much more than we have, but how far will we go to get it?
Teresa was born poor and couldn't accept it. Her parents helped her study and get ahead, sure that with a career their daughter could improve her cultural and socio-economic standing.
Mariano, her first love and the only man Teresa loves - in her fashion - also helped her. Her love is egotistical - she considers Mariano to belong to her and nobody else, believing he could never fall in love with another. She leaves him after a three year relationship, dazzled by Paulo's wealth, the best ? of the school for rich folks where she studies on scholarship.
Calculating, always with an ace up her sleeve, she conceals her relationship with Paulo from Mariano, from her family, and from everyone in her neighborhood. She takes equal care to hide her humble status from Paulo.
When Paulo discovers she is poor, his promise to marry her is forgotten and he wants her to be his lover, but she rejects him, and he in turn takes up with Aída out of spite.
Aída and Paulo humiliate Teresa, revealing her poverty and lies in public, so she decides to get reventes and swears she will never be trampled on again - she will get what she wants, no matter what the cost.
Teresa is aided by her professor, the prestigious lawyer Arturo de la Barrera; she subtly seduces him while pretending not to notice the sentiments she has awakened in him.
At the same time, she resumes her relationship with Mariano, because she is dying of jealousy when she finds out that her millionaire friend Aurora has fallen in love with him.
But then, Teresa is not inclined to wait for the 'love of her life' to drum up with money and a career; she decides Arturo will suit her better. Pretending that her parents don't love her and in fact even beat her, Teresa wangles an invitation from Arturo's sister Luisa to come live in the home of the la Barreras.
Living there she drives the professor crazy and lovesick, he wants to explode and confess his sentiments but he contains himself since he promised Teresa's father he would wait until she was no longer his student.
Teresa despises her parents and wants to cut her ties with them completely since all they do is make her vulnerable to ridiculte.
Refugio, her mother, though hopeful of change, has never deceived herself about what kind of person Teresa is, but her father Armando falls into an acute depression because he adores his daughter and will sacrifice himself for her, even to the point of going to prison.
Just when Teresa graduates and is on the point of marrying Mariano, she breaks up with him to accept Arturo, who takes her to Europe for a while ... but then she meets Fernando, Luisa's fiance, a handsome multimillionaire of noble birth, a man who could bring her into a more sophisticated world. Her eyes glitter at the thought of entering the jet set. She decides to conquer her best friend's man...
Labels: synopsis-cast, Teresa
Triunfo del Amor #75-76 3/25/11 Part 1, Burn Job in the Barrio / Part 2 --If At First You Don’t Succeed…..Burnie Opts for Plan B.
Cap#75
Everything is in flames as batty Bernarda, Padilla, and El Alacran drive off. Milagros is nearly passed out on the kitchen floor of her apartment from the smoke; downstairs on the floor of their bedroom, Nathy has noticed that Maria has blacked out and she's screaming in panic, hopelessly hoping to get Maria to respond. Outside, Padre Juan Pablo and the rest of the neighbors can only watch and wait as the fire consumes the apartment building until Juanjo and the gang arrive to put it out and save the others still left inside the building.
Finally the firemen arrive and our three heroes enter to rescue Millie, Maria, and Nathy.
Meanwhile, Max makes it home and returns to the whingeing entreaties of his scheming spouse. Max tells Jimena that his mind is made up and there’s no reason to stick it out till her little critter is born. Life with her is totally unbearable cuz she’s totally certifiable! She accuses him of the same ol’ lies but he insists he's been truthful from the start, not to mention that she asked for it by tricking him that night in Miami. She fooled around with a man she knew didn’t love her! Jimena is just as adamant that he did love her and if it hadn't been for that interloping female he still would! (Viewerville says a quick prayer of thanks for the inventor of remote control and immediately hits their mute buttons. --I guess Jimmie thinks if she screams louder than Max does then the lies she tells are that much more credible, and she automatically wins the argument--the kind of people who are always the MOST irritating in a screaming match!)
A few blocks away, Burnie lights a candle for those she's supposedly condemned to death in the name of Holy Justice. Not only is she no longer afraid at the sight of a struck match, she holds the whole darned matchbox in her hand and prays with it in place of a rosary. Aparrently she's concluded in her own twisted way that because she burnt them to a crisp in this life, she's saved them from eternal Hellfire and damnation in the next. (Works for me! The woman has an a-maz-ing mind, doesn’t she? It’s just that it’s the kind you'd need breadcrumbs to find your way back through.)
At the same time Burnie is delighting in delusions of divinely sanctioned and just deserts of those she's damned, Vick notices a pain in her chest and has a premonition that somebody close to her must be in some kind of danger. (Ah, there it is! The returning "Call of the Blood" that Viewerville has been waiting for. Unfortunately in Vicki's case it's still not more than a muffled whelp.....)
Across the hall in Max and Ji's bedroom, Ji continues the fight. Max gets a little tougher with her and begs her not to make him despise her. (Oh face it, Max! Tell her the truth. You do despise her!) He drives off to catch a breath of sanity in the barrio.
Jimmie gives another bat-shit-crazy smile and tells herself that with all that she's going to do to him he's certain to end up despising her.
Downtown at the Casa de Modas, it's another late night for Antonieta. Guillermo, planning to pump Toni for anything noteworthy about the Scandal-vals, surprises her with an invitation to dinner. Toni has lots of work to do, she says, but rather than turn beguiling Gui down flat, she invites him to her place to make din-din for both of them there. Gui accepts and even offers to help her with her paperwork as well. They walk out to the elevator together as the ever obtuse Oscar has just stepped out into the hallway.
Oscar takes notice and races to ask Lucy who the man was that Toni was leaving with. Lucy explains that that was the famous actor Guillermo Quintana and that they were seemingly going out to dinner together. Oscar frowns and runs to Pepino to ask him if he knows what's between Toni and this actor she just left with. Pipino confesses to Oscar that Antonieta has been in love with him but has now had to turn her sights toward more attainable terrain. Oscar admits he has never had the faintest idea Toni felt that way about him. Pepi mentions how Gui apparently won her over with the bottle of champagne he sent over to their table at dinner the night before. "--Not that it matters since you've already lost her!" Oscar doesn't follow. Pepi explains that she saw Oscar swapping spit with Roxana. Oscar tries to explain that the woman ambushed him unexpectedly in his office and forced herself on him. Pepi isn't so sure. FF>>
Over dinner at Toni's place, Gui broadly hints that he's looking to settle down if only he could find the right kind of woman. It would be one like her, he flatters. She'd be decent, virtuous, attractive... blah blah blah. Toni is a bit surprised, she says, considering she never thought she was the type to interest him.
Juanjo brings out Nat while Naco and crew rescues Milie and the gang start to count heads. (How hard can it be? There are only three!) It seems to take forever till somebody remembers that Maria Desamparada is still inside. Nat screams over the din that she's lying passed out on the floor right next to where they found her, but now the captain of the firemen says it's too dangerous to go back in.
Max drives up just then, sees the flaming building, and learns that Maria is still trapped inside. He races over and then tries to enter the building to rescue her, but he's held back by the others and is told firemen are already inside looking for her. (Again, how hard can it be to find her since JJ saw her lying there right next to Nat?) Max refuses to wait any longer. Life has no meaning without Maria!! He races into the apartment to try to save her.
Fausto is now in the crowd and he sneaks a peak at the chaos from behind one of the firetrucks as JP prays for Maria's life and Max's safety. Clueless Vicki prays simultaneously that whoever it is that's in danger is protected from harm.
Padre Jeronimo now walks in on Burnie in front if the altar in JP's sacristy. She and Padre Jerry begin to grouse about her questionable intentions. Whatever she's praying over, it can't be good, snipes Jerry. Ste. Burnarda immediately lectures him about how all the saints at one time or another were persecuted. Padre Jerry changes topics and says he heard she'd been to see the bishop and has been forbidden to take communion. He thinks all things considered, it would be better if she just doesn't return to the church. She tells him he and the bishop can both go pound sand because she no longer accepts their authority. "--You are people who don't know how to recognize either just acts or saintliness!" She swears that she'll end up triumphant one day and that they will realize in the end that she was always right. They have challenged her to a duel to the death, she rants, and to death it will be! Yes, and they will be the ones to burn in eternal Hellfire!!
A bit later, back at Toni's much more tranquil digs, Gui thanks Toni for dinner and asks to see her again. He suggests cooking for her at his place next time. She hesitates but finally agrees. Gui manages to then casually bring up Osvaldo and his family. Toni mentions there were problems from before that still haven't been resolved at the Sandovals, but she thankfully doesn't go into specifics.
At the manse, Vicki goes in to check on Fernanda who says obviously she's just fine. (Ah! It's comforting for Viewerville to note that Brat-Baby is beginning to feel better and is back to being the obnoxious, over-indulged and mouthy bitch she's always been.) The Ferbeast now growls because Mama didn't knock first. Vicki mentions that she's had a feeling something was wrong with her or Max and Oz so she had wanted to check on her. Fer snaps back that if Vicki was really that worried about her daddy she wouldn't have let him leave in the first place. Vick whines about betrayed Love's pain but Fer tells her to talk to the hand. "--Just stop flogging yourself already!" Fer tells her she needs to just. get. over. it. "--Get a new life cuz nobody here wants to hear about the old one any longer!" (Gawd! Nobody in Viewerville does anymore, either!)
Toni sees Guillermo out and then gets the warm and fuzzies afterwards. A moment later her cell rings. It's Oscar calling but he freezes and can't manage to say a word. He hangs up. Toni calls somebody (but we don't know if it's Pepi or Oscar) and asks if they can come over.
Back in the burning barrio a few minutes later, Max reappears at the doorway of the apartment building with Maria in his arms. He carries her to the sidewalk and applies mouth to mouth resuscitation. Maria miraculously comes to. Papa JP and the others say a couple of Hail Mary's.
Upstairs at the Scandal-vals once more, Jimmie approaches Vicki in the hallway to ask if Vick got Max to agree to stick around till her baby was born. Vicki tells her that she failed and that Max still wants the divorce ASAPP. However, she says, she did speak with Maria earlier, who said she would see about convincing Max not to leave Jimmie before the baby comes. Ji is visibly impactada once she hears that the competition is still alive. Vick asks why she's suddenly so jumpy. (What does it matter? She’s always jumpy about something.) Ji says it's her nerves; that they've got her imagining things, not to mention that she's worried out of her mind with the baby and Max's dumping on her. Vicki advises Jimmie that she needs to do her part to cooperate and be cordial with Max in order to keep harmony in the house. Ji says it's precisely Max and Oz who've caused the disharmony there, and all because of their cheating--and that cockroach who now wants to steal her baby's father away from her! Vicki looks empathetic, but it seems like Jimmie's high-strung histrionics are now wearing thin even for her.
Back at Burnie's, Eva takes an earful because Fausto is AWOL. Eva tries to lie that he had something important to attend to, but Burnie says she knows she's full of crapola. Eva admits she was only covering for Fausto, which takes Burnie by surprise. Eva explains that he went off on his own because he thought the Sra. was about to do something bad. Burnie goes into another of her self-deluded rants about only punishing sinners and those who persist in punishing her,i.e., those who manage to get in her way. Eva dares to voice the question. "--Like Tomasa?"
At the fire again, some of the firemen catch Fausto hiding between the fire trucks near the apartment building and blame him for starting it; this whips up the crowd and the infuriated residents want to lynch him on site till Maria comes to his defense. X-Padre JP lectures the crowd not to accuse somebody without hearing their side of things first. He asks Fausto then to explain what he was doing watching in the shadows like that. Fausto tells him that he was there making sure that nothing had happened to Maria because he knew she lived in the building. He hid because fire frightens him. Maria asks if those scars on his face are from a fire. He nods and tells her that his parents died in the fire. The crowd seems satisfied.
Burnie tells Eva she's thinking of getting rid of her and Fausto since they've stopped being useful to her. Eva suggests Burnie’s just a bit bewildered and that it wouldn't suit Burnie to dismiss them at this point in time. Eva then reminds her how they've been completely loyal and discreet about her "activities." Why, her son the priest has continually asked them both numerous questions and yet she and Fausto have both kept completely quiet about her "crimes." Burnie laughs, but it rings a bit hollow. "--You talk as if I'm some kind of murderer." It's like two dueling dogs in a pit are circling and growling threateningly at each other. (Viewerville's money's on Eva!) Eva looks her dead in the eye and doesn't flinch and inch. "--You and I know that nun didn't die of natural causes." Point made. Burnie backs off to lick her wounds in private.
A bit later that night, Oscar, Pepi and Toni show up at Vick's to discuss what Oscar learned about Tomasa's disappearance. It's not much, he admits. Vick agrees it’s all pretty murky, but she's certain Burnie offed her because the old gal wouldn't just up and leave like that. Toni thinks Burnie might be a nasty old broad, but she doubts she would do something like that to another human being. Vicki assures her that Burnarda is capable of that and a lot more. Vick then pulls out the picture of Fausto's parents and asks Oscar to get whatever information about them that he can, especially anything about their relationship to Burnie. Oscar asks Vicki why she and Burnie hate each other so much. Vicki finally admits to him that it's because Burnie accuses her of having seduced her son back in the day. “--Juan Pablo was my first ‘man’ and we had a child together who, unfortunately, went missing [extraviarse].”
Back in her bedroom, Ji starts talking to herself again. She's angry that Maria is still alive. "--That cockroach! She has more lives than a cat!" Jimmie takes solace with the nearest (and conveniently placed) liquor bottle, telling herself that Maria is no match for her. She'll destroy her!! “--If Max can't be happy with me, he's not going to be happy with anyone!” Ji pops the lid off a full bottle of pills and begins slugging them down with the booze.
Across the hall again, Oscar assures Vicki that he'll find out as much as he can for her. Pepi and Toni then try to persuade Vick to come back to the office because things there are getting out of hand; they feel like they've been set adrift with no captain at the helm. Oscar agrees and adds that the sales have begun to drop off. Vicki confesses to the group that she has absolutely no interest in the business now. (Naw, she would just rather wallow in self-pity.) Her husband cheated on her, her son and daughter are distancing themselves from her now, and her first daughter is still missing. Only finding her long-lost daughter will give her back the strength she needs to carry on.
--Fin P. 1.
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If At First You Don’t Succeed…..Burnie Opts for Plan B.
Part 2
Cap #76
During the commercial break we are left wondering if Toni will be gullible enough to fall prey to Guillermo's flattery, if Fausto will really be accused of being a firebug, if Max will ever find out that Maria's pregnant with the real mini-max/maxina, if Victoria will ever return to work before the business goes bankrupt, and if Jimena will very soon do us all a big favor by successfully O.D.-ing from guzzling those Downer Cocktails of hers.
The fire in the apartment house has been put out while Uni allowed its prolific and prosperous sponsors to hawk their goods. Nat, Maria and Max are now standing outside the church's dispensary, which Padre Juan Pablo has given over to the newly homeless as a temporary shelter. Max is getting ready, though reluctantly, to leave Maria and Nat there for the night.
Inside, Millie and the gang console each other with selfless thoughts that in spite of their being left with nothing, they still have each other and Dios will provide the rest. Millie tells Juanjo how proud she is that he’s returned to his job and then takes a moment to also thank Napo for saving her life. Napo promises he'll buy her a new dishwasher and fridge, and hints broadly that it's much more than her mysterious macho-man of a secret admirer will do for her. She thinks he must be right and that the guy must have been playing with her heart the same way his Rosa has been. Napo tells her to be careful what she says about his Rosie! (Zzzz!)
Back outside the building again, Max tells Maria that he thought his heart had stopped beating when he saw her lying unconscious on the floor in the middle of the flames. She says the only thing she felt was sadness because she thought she'd never see him or have a chance to caress his face again. Max says that won't happen because in no time at all they'll be together and nobody and nothing will ever separate them again. (Famous last words which always signal the worst is yet to come and the best will again be delayed.) Maria says she's going to be the happiest woman in the world because her dream about having a family will finally come true. He suggests that the next day they look for a place of their own to live in, but Maria puts a halt to that immediately. It's not because she doesn't love him, she says. It's because just before the fire broke out his mother came to ask her to try to convince him to hold off leaving Jimeana until she has her baby. Max says no way. (I say it's time to put a DNA test on the front burner!!) Maria is embarrassed because she gave her word to his mama. He says he doesn't care about that; his mother and Jimena had no right to ask them to do that and there was no reason to, either! To heck with their constantly sacrificing their feelings for those two ingrates! Maria has a sudden coughing attack and Max rushes her back inside to check with the doctor.
In another part of the little clinic, JP asks Fausto if his mother might have had something to do with the fire and if that's why he was lurking about earlier. Fausto won't answer him directly. He repeats he was only there to see that nothing happened to Maria. JP says that means then that he knew she was in danger. Fausto's cryptic reply is that he knows things and that one day the two of them will have to have a long and serious talk together, but only when the time is right. Fausto then walks off. JP seems more anxious than ever about the mad and maddening things his mama seems to be up to.
The clinic doctor gives Maria a quick check but doesn't see anything to worry about. Coughing is obviously to be expected after breathing in all that smoke, he says. Max reluctantly agrees to go but promises that he'll be back by the next morning to take Maria to the hospital to have her thoroughly checked over. Millie and the rest of them hold their breath to see what Maria will say to this. Max tells her not to worry about the other stuff because he's bound and determined to make his separation from Jimmie a done deal. This time Maria doesn't object and she even adds that she thinks the doctors will give him some really great news. They kiss good-night and everyone takes a breath. Max, JP and the doc all leave. Nat and the others ask if she really wants Max to know she's expecting his child. Maria smiles from ear to ear and says she does because she knows Max loves her.
Outside again, Max and JP are now arguing over whether Max should separate from Jimmie so soon. JP agrees with Victoria that a few more months shouldn't make any difference. Max tries to explain what an emotional Hell living with Ji has been for him. JP says he's not for divorces per say, but has no control over any union that hasn't been blessed by Dios. Max says it wasn't Dios that forced them together like this and he's leaving her, period! Victoria has to learn that in life there are limits and she better learn those boundaries like yesterday! No more sacrificing his and Maria's happiness for others any longer! Besides, he adds, JP has known his mama for a long while and so he should be able to help her find her way back from the land of the lost that her blaming his father has left her in.
Juanjo takes a moment to ask Maria and Nat why Linda isn't living with them any longer. Nat and Maria defer to Millie to tell JJ that she's dead and gone. They take a moment to feel his pain.
Fausto has returned to Burnie's. He and Eva stand at attention while she warns Fausto that the next time he won't get off so easy for abandoning his duties. Burnie then storms out of the room. Eva complains that he nearly got them fired with what he pulled. Fausto tells her that Burnie set fire to the building that Maria lived in and tried to burn her alive. "--That woman is Evil Incarnate!"
Alone in her bedroom, Burnie thinks to herself that she's sure she has finally gotten rid of Victoria's daughter once and for all.
Max gets home and bawls out his mother for having the gall to speak to Maria about doing favors for Jimena after the nasty way she's treated her. Vicki says she only did it because she was afraid that Ji would do something crazy. (How about having the girl committed instead?) Max says Jimeana is a blackmailer and he refuses to be manipulated by her any longer! Vick stresses what it's like to lose a child and asks Max to think about what he'd feel like if Jimmie lost theirs. Max says that isn't going to happen and besides, today he almost lost the woman he loved when somebody purposely set fire to her building! Vick is wide-eyed-impactada and now thinks the premonition she had was because he'd been in danger when he'd gone to the fire. He explains Maria's out of danger, and now he's not giving in this time. He's going to divorce Jimeana ASAPP! [as soon as physically possible]
Max walks into the upstairs hallway. Jimmie stumbles out and starts slinging a few choice, though slurred, insults at her errant hubby. "--What? Did you finally get bored with the slut for a while?" "--Watch what you say about the woman I love; and anyway I don't want to argue with a drunk." Oh, she sneers, so now she has to be grateful to the cockroach because she's deigned to allow him to stay with her till his baby is born. Nope, Max says. Ji’s got it wrong cuz they're divorcing right away! Ji argues that Vicki promised her otherwise! He yells at her that it doesn't matter what his mother told her! He's not giving up his happiness to stay miserable for the next however many months with her! Jimeana goes ballistic here and screams like a banshee. She's not having the child unless he stays there with her till it's born! She's ready to kill herself!! (Two words immediately come to mind: Straight Jacket. Jimmie’s long past simply having him agree to wile away the months reading the paper in his slippers while she picks out baby clothes and furnishes the nursery!) Both Fer and Vick race out to see what the commotion's all about. Vicki tries calming Jimmie down again. Jimmie passes out once the adrenaline surge ends, the booze and painkillers kick in, and her brain short-circuits. (At least, I think that's what's just happened. Carlos, your cell is ringing!) Max and the others get muy worried for her baby.
Meanwhile, back at the dispensary, Juanjo doesn't think he can ever love again, but he hopes Linda’s in Heaven. Millie agrees to leave Linda-Ho’s fate to Dios and to have JJ try to rebuild his life on terra firma.
The doctor finishes examining Jimmie and tells the others what's so painfully obvious: that the abuse of drugs and alcohol has put the life of her child in danger. They keep watch over her for the night, but if things don't change, he suggests putting her into a hospital. (We assume it’s so the lush can dry out!)
After the doc leaves, Vicki tells Max to think long and hard about divorcing Ji now because the life of his child is in the balance. (Viewerville readies itself to make numerous animal sacrifices to the telenovela gods so that the writers will bestow him with enough sense to finally consider that Jimena might have been sleeping around after all, and that her kid could be somebody else's problem! --Three little letters, Max: D.N.A.!)
While Max watches over Jimmie through the night, Maria thinks back to all the times she and Max made love together and how he no longer wants to put off their chance for their marital bliss. She agrees there's no further reason to put things off and that in the morning he'll find out she's giving him a child, one that was created from love. (Viewerville sighs.)
The next morning arrives, but Max does not. So Papa JP and Maria go to the hospital together instead.
Max has been up all night looking after Ji. She wakes up as he gets a call from the office telling him they need him there for some problem or other. He tells Ji not to worry, that he'll have his mother watch over her now. Not good enough!! Jimmie crawls all over him, begging him to stay because it wouldn't be the same without him there! She knows he's going to take Maria to the doctor, she whines, because she heard him say so. She begs him to swear that he won't go see Maria.
At the same time, Vicki phones Burnarda to ask her once more to tell her who her daughter is. Burnie brags that she warned her she wasn't going to get her way. Yesterday, she says, she proved that she's capable of anything. Vick says she doesn't know what the broad’s talking about, but she's not going to stop until she finds out who the couple in that picture are! Burnie says Vicki doesn't scare her cuz she'll never find that out. Vicki growls back that she'll continue to hound Burnie until she tells her where her daughter is! Burnie tells her that her daughter should be dead (meaning the fire, we assume). Vicki refuses to believe that and says sooner or later she will have to admit to her who and where her daughter is! Otherwise, Burnie will have a major problem with the authorities! Click!
Fausto is about to enter Burnie’s room but he stops when he hears Burnie tell herself that if Vicki discovers who the couple in that picture are she's sunk. She'll have to plan to go off on a long trip-- someplace nobody can find her. Where?
Back at the Max's place, Jimmie's whining has worn Max down. Max promises not to see Maria. He then leaves to take care of the problem at the company. Ji tells herself that she can't let Max take Maria to the doctor because he's sure to find out then Maria's expecting--and her goose will be cooked!
Later that morning, Maria takes her ultrasound. The doctor explains the picture to them both. JP wishes Vick and Mama were there to see the little miracle. When he sees the imaged in the monitor he is suddenly eager to see his little grandson born.
Mama, though, is in the middle of screaming at her personal version of Dumb and Dumber--Padilla and El Alacrán. She’s madder than a hatter because Maria was rescued from the fire despite those two having followed her instructions to the letter. El Alacrán asks her for another chance to show her they can do what needs to be done.
Fausto rushes back to speak to Eva about what he just heard. "--The Sra. wants to flee [huir] from the law! She's planning a long journey where nobody will ever hear of her again!" Eva asks him what they are going to do if she never returns….
Burnie meanwhile, gives Alacran the go-ahead and says this time they'd better not fail! "--Victoria Sandoval will learn once and for all that she'd better not mess with me!"
Federico now calls Fer and begs for another chance to go steady again. He tries to convince her that he does think of something besides partying once in a while. Fer wants to call it quits, but then she figures what the hey and tells him that she will meet him in the same place as always.
Meanwhile, El Alacrán sneaks in over the Sandoval’s fence to cut the brake lines of Fer's mini-vertible.
At the Casa de Modas, Fabian (who I, for one, would rather see modeling pecs in speedo’s and a bow-tie rather than howling an off-key accompaniment to an otherwise romantic serenade) tells Max that Nat needs a friend more than ever now. Max agrees and they are about to head to the dispensary so Max can apologize to Maria for not showing up this morning. (Viewerville will forgive him for not thinking to call the dispensary to leave word for Maria that he got called in to the office unexpectedly. He was up for the last 24+ hours looking after his loony wife and couldn't think straight.) Before they can get out the door he gets a call from someone that he has to meet immediately.
Jimmie recuperates apparently and then drives herself over to the barrio to see if she can locate Maria. Ji strikes out playing twenty questions with a little boy playing ball in front of Maria’s burned out apartment building. FF>>
At the same time, Nat and Maria are taking a walk through the barrio. Maria sees a help wanted sign for someone who can sew. She speaks to the owner and gets hired. It’s easy work.
Max meets with the private investigator he'd hired to look into the missing Maria. She hands him a photo.
Back at the manse, Vicki races after Fer as she's headed down the stairs on her way to meet Scuzzy Tattoo Boy. Vicki wonders why Fer's attitude towards her has changed so radically. Fer admits that she used to admire her mother, but she doesn't any longer. "--Why? Because my husband left me?" Fer says no. It’s because she's stopped being the strong, stubborn, relentless woman she used to be. She is only a shadow of herself, says Fer, and certainly not any kind of a decent role model for her now! "--You've given up. You're worthless and --you yourself made it your job [dedicarse] to do in the Victoria Sandoval you used to be!"
Nat and Maria are crossing the street, discussing the fact that Maria got the seamstress job, and that she starts working the next day. Jimeana sneaks up on the two of them and tells Maria that she's been looking everywhere for her. Why? To ask her to stop harassing Ji's hubby. Maria says sorry. No can do. We love each other. Well, says Jimmie, I'm having his baby! Maria, wiser than her few years would lead Viewerville to believe, lectures Jimeana: Life isn't forcing people to do things only because of that because what brings couples together is love, not children. --Sorry, says Jimena, but Max has to be with his kid. Nat pipes up and says Jimmie's right about that. Max needs to be with Maria because Maria's pregnant with Max's child--a child conceived with love! Ji won’t argue with that.
Scuzzy and Fer are chatting it up at the campus coffee shop they used to meet at. He tells her that he wants to be famous and knows he'll have to change to do it. So, as of tomorrow he will be an entirely new man. (Nothing like telling yourself 'There's always tomorrow.' A lot of good it ever did Scarlet, right?) Why not today, asks Fer. Well, admits Scuzzy, there's a race on today. He's got a bet going with a few buds and has to leave to take care of bidnez. It's in Toluca. He's got a few races. "--Waddayasay? Want to come with?" She hesitates but he tells her not to worry. She can see the great transformation of Federico Padilla. This is too much for Fer to resist and she accepts the invite, saying that at her place it's going from bad to worse anyway and they’ll never miss her.
Back in the barrio, Jimeana says then it's true that Maria’s pregnant. “--Linda told me.” Nat and Maria are pissed and want to know exactly what Linda said to her, and when Ji saw Linda last. Ji brushes them off. "--Your friend! Don't tell me! Then how come you two kicked her out of her own place?" Maria tells Ji it wasn't like that. “--Oh? Well, not that it matters to me, since she was nothing but a whore, but she's dead now and it's all your fault.” Well, all Ji says she really wanted was to assure herself that Maria was pregnant. She has no doubt that it's not Max's, and if Maria doesn't leave him alone, she'll have to tell Max the truth about Maria's baby. “--What 'truth'?” Jimena lies. Linda told her everything. She told her that it wasn't Max's baby and she even told her the name of the real father! Ji snaps her fingers dismissively in Maria's face. "--So! You leave him alone!" She struts off.
Later that day, Fer and Feddie take Fer's .5 cylinder cupcake on roller skates to Toluca. The bets are taken and Feddie wagers Fer's cupcake can beat somebody else's 4 cylinder Chevy. He's on! Fed tells Fer she can ride with him. She's up for that! The two cars vie for first place while El Alacrán looks on with his binoculars from some place further out and yuks it up.
At the Casa de Modas, Pepino and Oscar accuse Roxy to her face of stealing a number of expensive accessories. She sniffs and says the accusation comes from one of the worst designers in the industry. Pepi is ready to draw first blood. He calls her a chocolate (something?) mummy. Roxy's ready to rumble and says once she tells Victoria what he's just called her she'll kick him out on his assets. Vick shows up just then and agrees, but says Pepino's the best designer in his league and it's very difficult to find someone of his stature in the design world. Her posse is pleased as punch to see her back in the saddle again.
Somewhere in Toluca, the race heats up. Scorpion Dude makes the sign of the cross and giggles moronically.
Vick takes back her pink throne in her office. If she's back it is because she's been thinking that if JP and his mama know who her daughter is, it must be because she is alive. (Duh!) So, she'll find her eventually. Max enters Vick’s office and hands her a photograph. Vicki looks at it and chokes up. It's a picture of a 6 or 7 yr. old Maria in a parochial school uniform. Max tells her where he got the photo and says it was all the PI could get because the school closed down quite a while ago. Vicki's all bummed because she thinks they're no better off now than before. Max says at least she knows that her daughter survived and perhaps some family adopted her. Vicki says she realizes trying to hide the truth has caused a lot of people and herself a lot of grief. It's time she comes out with the whole story now, especially to Fer. She tells Max she plans on telling her tonight that she has a sister. That, she adds, may be the only thing that saves Fer from that loser, Federico Padilla! (No, she'll have Scorpion Dude to thank for that little miracle.)
Fed eventually needs to use his brakes. (For the life of me I don't see why. It was only a small mound of dirt with a tiny tree on top.) The car takes the little upgrade at 100 mph and they are airborne. The convertible rolls a couple of times and lands upside down. Feddie and Fer are unconscious. El Alacrán laughs himself silly and heads back to Burnie's.
The firemen arrive on the scene of the crash and determine that poor Feddie and all his fabulous artwork have traveled to that great tattoo parlor in the sky. Fer, on the other hand, still has a pulse and if they can manage to get her to a hospital in time --OMG! It's TOFIM! And it's Cruz who gets her pulled out of the car right before it explodes--and it's JJ who has to agree that he'll put all prejudice aside to help Cruz save Osvaldo Sandoval's daughter. Viewerville then gets four different views of the same explosion--just in case they didn't see it the first, the second, or the third time.
Scorpion Dude returns to wherever he left Rudy Padilla and jokes about the smooth way the whole thing worked. They were racing in the car together somewhere in Toluca. The girl got hers, but so did the boy she was in the car with! Rudy asks for a description of the boy Vick's daughter was riding with. Scorpion Dude says he couldn't tell, exactly, because he had to look through binoculars to follow it all. He was not much different from any of the other braggarts [fanfaron] though. The one thing he does remember is that the kid had a snake tattoo all down his arm. Padilla goes wild and starts to strangle Scorpion Dude. "--You killed my son!" "--How could I know?" (Good point, and one that Rudy should o' thunk of, considering!) "--Forgive me! Forgive me! How would I have known?" Scorpion Dude runs off. Rudy is left to mourn and to admit that he killed his own son. (Ok. Let’s blame it on Burnie and you can do us all a favor by offing the bitch.)
Cruz calls Max to let him know that Fer was in a car accident and is now faltering at Death's door. He then hangs up long enough to give Fer mouth to mouth. He miraculously revives her. (Good, cuz I don't think Viewerville could stand another round of Ave Maria a Capella from Pablo.)
At the same time, our deluded Doña tells herself that there's no doubt this is a punishment from God--another punishment from the Lord over Victoria. She then reverently kisses the cross hanging from her neck.
Max races home.
Vicki tells Michaela she's too bushed to answer any calls or to speak with anybody. She just wants to rest.
Max gets home and starts yelling for Vicki. Michaela tries to explain that his mother’s not up for visitors, but Max could give a rat's furry-tailed ass. He barges into her bedroom. Vicki tells him she's not in the mood to argue about some company problem. He tells her (and takes his own sweet time about it!) that he's not there to talk about company business. "--Well then what?" "--It's bad news." ‘--What? Is it your father?" "--No. He's fine." "--Then what's going on?" "--It's Fer. She's had an accident." Vicki is suck-it-in-and-knock-me-over-with-a-feather-impactada. Uni cues the kayak. --fin part 2.
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El Mundo de Telemundo, Week of March 28, 2011: Discuss Amongst Yourselves
¡Hóla a todos! Some of you know that when I write recaps, I include a lot of photos. I'm not writing recaps for Herederos or Reina and I don't have access to my TiVo setup where I can import the video right now but I thought that Santiago's departure was worth some effort so I grabbed a couple of shots from the online version of Thursday's episode. Descanse en paz, Santiago. We'll miss your hunky self.REINA- Teresa learns the ropes of being in prison and we meet a whole bunch of new characters. It appears that the Reina of the prison is the 'Lieutenant' (Teniente) Patty O'Farrell and she maneuvers the situation so that Teresa becomes her cellmate.
Meanwhile evil Eddy is selling/giving Santiago's house in Algeciras to some woman.
Some thoughts on the book versus the novela. In the book, when Teresa decides to go to Algeciras with Santiago, she rips the photo of her and El Güero in half and keeps the part with her in it and burns the part with El Güero. She never displayed the photo. She keeps it in her purse. It's a reminder of what she was and at the end of the novel she rips it into bits. In the novela, she burns up the whole photo when she decides to go with Santiago.
I see that the novela wants to keep characters tied together more than they are in the book. In the book, Santiago isn't betrayed on his last run. He just has bad luck and once he and Teresa leave the folks in Mellila are never heard from again. I thought that during the chase scene, shots were fired at them by the pursuing launches or the helicopter. In the book, it specifically mentions that the Spanish authorities (unlike the Moroccan ones) are not permitted to shoot at smuggler's boats. Also, the book describes that when Santiago and Teresa are on a run, Teresa puts her face into a radar display and guides Santiago by putting her hands on his shoulders. Obviously, that wouldn't translate too well on screen.
HEREDEROS- I watched Thursday's and Friday's episodes together and I don't recall where one left off and the other began. Guadalupe's wedding was nice. She is such a beautiful woman. But Gaspar is already displaying his del Monte macho tendencies by insisting that she stop working and start ordering the servants, including her uncle, around.
Béatriz still seems to be figuring out that Jose is a drunken boor and would-be rapist.
I guess I vote for brain tumor for Julieta. Headaches, fainting and personality changes seem to add up to that. Her attempt to kill Paula with scorpions seemed pretty amateurish. At least folks are using their cell phones to communicate and share pictures even if it is a big product placement for sponsor T-mobile.
Lucas and Rosario are back together but for how long?
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Llena de Amor #157 (Mex. 176-177) Fri 3/25/11 It ain't over 'til the Fat Lady sin...reappears !
OK so I got home from work about 7:10 and my recording wasn't set yet, so I missed the first part of the TV version and I'm not sure how it compares to the MX version but I've started with the MX version and I'll tell you where I saw the TV version start up...someone can comment what was deleted from this first segment...
So we open with our weepy eyed protaganists after Ilitia leaves, having injected her venom that Vicky ordered Mau to rape her on the wedding night. Brandon walks into this joyous playground and it looks like MV is free to go but Eman with all his lawyers still is not assured of freedom. He bites back that this is really Marianela and accuses that Brandon already knows it perfectly well and he will not be forgiven for these lies. MV leaves.
We are back at the big house, who's ownership is apparently in question and Emi is chatting with Max about the Kristel dilemma…Emil thinks she should never know the truth that Low is her Dad. Uh oh, at the mention of that name, Max might be having a heartattack. He screams madly about Fedra always sullying their good name and he should have killed her when he had the chance. Emil reminds him she is still his wife and he’s no murderer…nah just a putz who wouldn’t marry the chic he loved and knocked up…worse? Maybe…anyway I digress…Max continues with the heart grunts as he admonishes Emil not to leave Mari alone…Emil in exchange feeds him some pills. Max will live another day...
Oliver is at the carcel and he laughs at Eman that he thinks Mari and Vick are the same. No way he says. Eman asks if Oliver thinks he’s that criminal. O isn’t sure but it’s sure interesting how Eman is always gone when the crimes happen…hmmm enter Gretel, to collect Eman whom Oli proclaimed wants nothing to do with him. Oli corners her and begs her to stay, that Eman left them alone on purpose.
Jose is declaring love to Netty, believes she feels the same…all nervous, she is not sure…at the critical juncture Brandon shows up with MarVick.
Ok and our lovebirds Oli and Gretel make up and make out..or do they…she shoves him into a cell and locks him there..Beatch that was not nice….
Ok now we are with Fed and Emil… he is calling her on the DNA analysis re Kristel.
In the video, there’s a group welcome of Mar Vick home from jail and an oh yes you are in the right but need to be careful because of Mau’s accusation etc. Jose is there and he takes Mar’s side, but she wonders if he really could send his amiga Fed to jail - revelation time - she calls him for who he really is… Jose Maria Sevilla. OK, he agrees it’s his name, but he was in jail in error, blah, blah. OK the one most affected here is Netty who wonders about the lies he told her to try to get in her pants - that he came from Veracruz and about his boat etc. yeah those boats get ya every time. He says they just need to trust him. Mar Vick does acknowledge he is dangerous in presence alone for Fedra.
Ok back to Emil lamenting the truth to Fedra about Kristel, this is the worst she could have done to him, he hates her, she’s betrayed him his whole life…I don’t know, electrocution might not be so good either, but anyway…he wants to know what else she’s lying about,what other of his kids aren’t his. Hee, well let’s count shall we? Imagine, so we think it’s only Axhole that carries his blood right? I think the TV went on with these two way too long…
In the video we are back at Netty’s and Vicky and she are chatting about how to bring about Mar again, they also chat about Jose Maria being alive and being Eman’s true Dad. Emil and Eman will be so hurt…Netty thinks Jose suspects all this and he’s worked really hard to be around Eman. She worries about Emil.
Back at the face off, Fed swears only Kristel doesn’t carry his blood…he says enough, she needs to go. Eh not so fast, she has the shovel for the gold right under her arm…if he turns over all his assets to her, she’ll give him the divorce. Of course he won’t give her a centavo. Oh well, I was hoping she would be worth getting rid of, but we still have a few capitulos left and we all know the horrid death she must die, so no easy pay off out for her…the torture continues…sigh… And that’s where I picked up with the TV version, right before the commercial of course…
In the video, Gretel is telling Axhole she's sure Mari will return and will need everyone's support. He promises that, but hopes Vicki will then leave because she made him marry that unfaithful tart, who deceived him in his own house. Bleh...Gretl makes a smirk and I want to punch the brat. Sheesh. Then he spills that he gave Deli hers, he made her his, believing he loved her, and then dumped her on the spot. Gretl smacks him hard! YEAH someone finally hits this guy!! Gretel also gives him a piece of her mind, how dare he, etc. I say he needs a piece of iron skillet on his noggin...I guess this didn't show up in the TV version? Travesty.
So now we got to Muni coming home all thrilled they released Eman and Ili must be so happy. Nope she's upset, she went to see Brandon who wants nothing to do with her or her family, even you Mama, so watch it and don't go to see him.
Next we are at the pool with Orange Boy and Kris and she is telling him Ili's preggers. Mau takes unusual interest in this and wants to know how far along she is...Kris freaks out about his question thinking of the charges on him and makes him swear he had nothing to do with Ili...he swears she came after him and he obliged, but I'm not sure if that was the wedding day, or earlier...
Now we rejoin the TV version with Mau telling Kris they agreed to forget all that crap and the important thing is that we are together again now. He kisses her and enter jealous Low who asks what he is doing...stunned looks from Kris like who the f are you? So of course I think the TV missed the mark on the important exchange which was Mau extreme interest in Ili's bump...anyway, so now we go back to the casa where Marinela returns. Ruiz de Teresas come out of the woodwork to make some comments towards her...the gist of this is Emil and then Fedra's accusation that Vick is Mar and Mar is Vick. Everyone wonders about this. Ili refuses to believe it, says no way.
Back in the online version Kristel tells Low he has no claim on her, so what the hell, he claims he is protecting her from slime like Mau. She says buzz off.
Back on TV, Kristel joins the questioning crew and remarks that even Eman knows who she really is. Vick says, actually, Jorrid is collecting Mari right now at the airport, and trust me, when you see her you will realize I am not she. The real owner of this house will return. Fed smirks... She says if Vick is not the real owner aka Mari, then she can go and she orders Nereida to help her pack, MV orders Pau to set up something nice in the garden for a great welcome for Mari Deli offers to help, but MV reminds Deli she is not a servant any more...Fed smirks that their marriage will be anulled soon...
Back in videoland we are treated to the independently mobile breasts of Jacqui who bugs Jorge about why Andres is still working there. Jorg says they can't send him off because of his illness and if they did him, they'd have to do her too. She says that was all invented to get Andres back, she's not sick, and if he helps, he too apparently gets to operate the remote control for her breasts. I swear I was waiting for them to take off by themselves...jeepers. He looks off in the distance not swayed. I think he's keeping his eyes out of the runway should they spin out of control.
Now, we are upstairs with the three chicas in the know, they are chatting about how awxful axhole is, and MV can't believe it. Deli is glad Jorge saved her. Gretl tells MV to forgive Jorge, he had his reasons for hiding the investigation of her Papa, and anyway he is Mari's hubby, so you need him more than ever now.
MV agrees. Eman shows up and wants to talk to her alone. He thinks if she's such good friends with Mar she should stay and Mar would love her company. She says she can't and yeah, she betrayed her with Jorge that one night, but more importantly she fell in love with Eman like an idiot and there is too much between Mari and him.
More bionic boobs trying to persuade Jorge.. these sure are interesting and woes be the TV audience is missing it all. She wants Andres dropped as a model. Jorge thinks her game is cruel, but he'll think about it only if she brings him the test results that she is not sick. She agrees. Until then, have your breasts propel you on out of here. And they pretty much do..
The commandante is asking Brandon and Oliver what ELDP has to do with Jose Maria...they don't know except clearly there is something between the two.
Back on TV, the commandante continues that he worries maybe they have been chasing the wrong person and wondes what they are waiting for. Brandon pleads that they need more evidence and time to develop the case…then they can move in. Back at the house Doris is preparing to un-Jenny Craig Vicky de la Gartha into fat Marianela. Netty worries some worts over this, but Doris’ mom assures her this is what Doris went to school for in LA. All will be well…we go through some making up scenes…frankly they should have cut all this instead of Axhole getting wacked by his sis, so we end up with bangs placement e voila, a fat Marinela that according to Ili, looks nothing like Vicky…it’s hard sometimes, I know with all that wool over their eyes in TV land, but I think I’d be suspicious…. :)
So now in TV land we are in for the garden party. Axel is complaining something about Delicia and Gman is trying to chill him. Kristel and Mau show up to everyone’s disgust. She says they are “dating” again and Eman decides to pull him over to the side. He suggests Mau apologize to everyone and just leave now. He knows that Mau abused his wife Ili and can’t believe he has the cajones to show up here after that. Get out. Kris comes over, surmising what they are chatting about and reminds Eman his wife is a liar and besides, Mau has no reason to abuse (well,take sexual liberties) anyone with me around, (ha, yeah a quality I always look for in a man) so why don’t you worry about your wife instead of MY boyfriend. Wifey will put the horns on anyone she sees in front of her and besides you should investigate, that kid she’s carrying is not even yours…BYE. She’s actually a pretty great actress. They depart Eman with his mouth open, a bit.
Suddenly a Disney moment, screams from beyond ,and there she is, the Fat Lady has returned. Marinela smiles on the arm of Jorge…Eman beams repeating her name over and over…
Cap 177
Back at the garden party, Ili and Kris, BFFs forever, are comenting on how fat or fatter Mari is, when Ili pulls Kris over and wants to know what she was chatting about with Eman for so long. Tee hee Kris retorts, well, either you admit to everyone that Mau never abused you, or I tell Eman your baby daddy is that copper, Brandon. You decide, tee hee…and she runs away. Gape mouth on Ili. Back to everyone goo -gahing over the Gordita…she’s back everyone missed her she gets some squushhy squeezes from Eman. Mostly she just beams….
Now we go to Doris with Andres at a clinic she brought him there because it’s highly probable that Jacqui invented all of this just to get back at him and they should learn for sure. No false hopes, but she is behind him all the way. OOOoooH! And they go in.
Back to the garden party, one after another folks greet her and say their little piece, Axel promises to be better to her, she says it’s in the past, and he’s married Delicia, who pipes up and Axhole showing exactly how much he has matured makes copycat faces in her direction. Ok, where’s that frying pan when you need it. Sniper in the woods, maybe? We can always hope…anyway.
Ili of course has biting words about her weight, and wonders how she can walk around with all that fat..Mari shoots back why don’t you tell me in a few months when you get this fat too from your pregnancy. Ha good one. So now she moves back to Feddi, and wonders what she is looking at…she wants to give her sobrina a hug…ouch, it turns into a fishing expedition as Fedra tries to pull up her shirt and proclaims miserably it feels like skin…Mari proclaims it her her skin, you freak…well I’m sure she was thinking that.
Online, they show us more of Andres at the clinic professing to Doris he is scared and she convincing him it will be ok either way, she holds him to her breasts.
Emil chats with Mari and invites her to now relax and enjoy the food they have prepared. She makes a comment that she’s not sure if she should, in case Fed has poisoned it again. Fed spits back something about her being ungrateful and unappreciative for them taking her in or something. The conversation turns to Tia Carlota and Emil wants Mari to clear it all up for them. Emil hopes she brought the proof because he will see to it that the guilty are made to pay. Mari says nope, unfortunately accidental fire got all that stuff, all I have is my word. Ili says that ain’t nothin…nonetheless, Mari is here to get her house back, and her inheritance from the woman who surely caused Carlota’s death. Emil wonders who that could be, and everyone looks at Fed. She says it ain't her, she was in Spain. Yeah, and Eman says you were also in Switzerland, Gretel says to visit me, only I was locked in the cave, remember???? They all know she is lying, so she admits she was in Madrid but that doesn't mean she killed Carlota. What funny dialogue.
Online more of Andres wimping out on the test, feeling ill, and running away from the room..
They chat about Almudena, Tia's headmaid, as a witness who saw Fedi there the day Carli died, but no, she didn't see any actual murder. Mari agrees it’s not Fedra, yep, it’s a woman named Juana Felipe Perez. Mari swears she will find her and send her to jail and beyond. Fed musters a sort of huh, kind of smile. Mari wants to go say hi to Tio Max. Eman wants to go with her, but Jorge her husband says not so fast buckeroo, I can take care of my wife, why don’t you tend to YOUR wife. Eman fights, but in the end is left with no one to play with.
Online we have Eugenio the lawyer showing up to say that Vicky must appear at the hearing tomorrow and Netty tells him he better not let her get caught on a crime she didn't commit. He says they have to prepare a really good defense, because Mau's lawyer defends mafiosos and big shots. he swears (taking Netty's hand) that he will do all he can for his precious. Just then Jose Maria walks in: well, you'll have to go through me first, as I will do all I can to get her into bed, er, win her hand...Ah intriguing.
I love it when men fight over you as if you were a possession. near as I can tell, when guys do that, a gal can just get up and walk away, that neither gets her. I learned the animal kingdom does this too, when mating lions or chimps will fight over the female, if the males fight too long or earnestly, the female moves on. Good for her. So these baboons end up fighting over her with words. Netty tells Eugenio he shouldgo prepare for the case, Jose asks Glad to leave so he can chat alone with Netty. In the meantime he gets a call there from Veracruz...he wonders que the hell, turns out it's Fed...Ah, now it makes sense how they meet up.
Tio is in the loop re fat- no fat, and he wonders how she was able to get so fat so fast, she tells him about Doris, he remembers how she helped Gretel. Now he wonders why Mari went through all this…she tells him of Fed’s discovery of her being the same and that they needed to put her off track a little. She continues to tell him there is a person from Fed's past who is still alive who can prove lots of things and she’s pretty sure that person will side with them. Ah, the plot thickens. Jorge doesn’t know of any of this either and is shocked when Mari tells about it. OK, so online
now we go to a bar where Jairo and Gman are chatting about ELDP and the latest developments. Gman is very excited. The bar manager is watching from afar, curious about the closeness of these two, er, men. Jairo is kissing Gmanolo on the cheek. Oliver rushes up in jealous rage…Gman breaks it up but yells at him that Jairo is right and he doesn’t have any of the things Jairo has that a woman like her needs. Or something like that. Whoops, woman? Bar manager wonders what is happening.
Back to the house Eman visits Max, looking for Mari of course, but Max tells him to let her be she’s past history. He says yeah, but there is this chemistry….
So now we go to Andres, who apologizes to Jacqui for all he's done, everyone makes mistakes. He tells her he chickened out at the clinic, but please tell him if she's really sick.
Netty listens to MV on the phone about how Mari's appearance went over at the Ruiz de T house. Netty is reminding MV on the phone she needs to appear at the judges as Vicky tomorrow.
Next Vicky is hassling Ili on the phone about Mari being here and her being nervous because she’s so in love with Eman. Eman overhears Ili's side of the conversation, so Ili tells him Vicky was bugging her again. She wants to know what Kris and Mau told him. He can’t talk now, he’s going to find Mari.
Andres is again begging Jacqui to know the truth. She says you have SIDA, and more, you deserve it for all of your infidelity and promiscuity.He can't believe it and begs her pardon. She says no and I hope you rot in hell for all you've done, who knows how many more women are suffering what I am. She leaves.
We resume on TV with Fed/Jauna running into Jose Maria outside somewhere. She greets him as sailor of the seven seas, he her as prostitute of 1001 bars. This guy is good!! She wants him to leave, he rips and throws down the ticket she has just given him. She wants him out of her affairs, he says or what, you’ll kill me? She tells him you determine that oh great seer of the future…anyway this goes no where really, so she pulls out a gun.
Eman finally gets close to Mari, he wonders where her hubby is, she says he went out to buy her chocolates, but his wife will probably be looking for him, so he should go.. he says they have stuff to talk about after 2 years. Ili made him believe that Vicky sent Mau to assault her the day of their wedding, but that is a lie. Kristel is assuring him that Ili is pursuing Mau, and that her baby is maybe not even Eman’s. Mari doesn’t know from all that, he should really be checking it with his wife. He wants to confirm some things first. Kris knows Ili best and he thinks this could hurt Ili if this wasn’t true because they are best friends and all but MAri knows neither she nor Vick had anything to do with what happened on their wedding day. That you have to believe, she says. He can’t see how Ili would make something like that up. Mari knows that girl is a big fat liar, so she certainly could. She has to tell him their lives are different now, and they lead separate lives.
Uh oh, back with Fed and the gun. Jose spews some words at her and challenges her to kill him. She puts the gun right to his heart, and whoops wardrobe failure...nothing comes out. It's funny to watch her try to get the gun to release. he thinks maybe it's not his time then, but alas it's hers, and he puts a friggin' huge knife right to her throat. Yikes...
Back to Eman and Mari and he professes he still loves her, and he goes in for a kiss. She cuts him off right away, that she is married and he'd better respect that.
Ok well Jose doesn't get far with the knife either...she keeps trying to shoot him with the lame gun then just goes to choke him. He doesn't, however, stab her, preferring to be choked until she pulls away and proclaims no one does her in.
Eman apologizes to Mari, he just can't help his impulses, etc. He wants to go back, he was so happy. He even made himself into another person to try and forget her. Huh, she wonders what he means? She forgives him, they hug, then Jorge comes in and sees them, not happy is he.
Meanwhile over at Netty's Brandon is there and they are chatting about the Mari thing, and how Vicky needs to disappear, when Ili walks up, hears, and wonders why? She tries to find Vicky there, though they keep telling her Vicky isn't home. She tries to go upstairs to find her.
There is some arguing about her not being here, and starting over a new life and Ili jokes,oh with you Brandon? In the other house there is arguing about what chocolates Mari really likes and why are you still here, etc. They could have cut all this in my opinion...the only important thing is Mar Vick fears she can't keep this up in front of Eman, he'll figure her out, and she is hurting him, she tells Jauma.
Then the take away tidbit from the other house, is during the scuffle to get upstairs, Ili begins to suffer abdominal pains...uh oh, will naco fetus cease to be? Will the true baby daddy of nacofetus come to light? Tune in Tues to find out!!
So we open with our weepy eyed protaganists after Ilitia leaves, having injected her venom that Vicky ordered Mau to rape her on the wedding night. Brandon walks into this joyous playground and it looks like MV is free to go but Eman with all his lawyers still is not assured of freedom. He bites back that this is really Marianela and accuses that Brandon already knows it perfectly well and he will not be forgiven for these lies. MV leaves.
We are back at the big house, who's ownership is apparently in question and Emi is chatting with Max about the Kristel dilemma…Emil thinks she should never know the truth that Low is her Dad. Uh oh, at the mention of that name, Max might be having a heartattack. He screams madly about Fedra always sullying their good name and he should have killed her when he had the chance. Emil reminds him she is still his wife and he’s no murderer…nah just a putz who wouldn’t marry the chic he loved and knocked up…worse? Maybe…anyway I digress…Max continues with the heart grunts as he admonishes Emil not to leave Mari alone…Emil in exchange feeds him some pills. Max will live another day...
Oliver is at the carcel and he laughs at Eman that he thinks Mari and Vick are the same. No way he says. Eman asks if Oliver thinks he’s that criminal. O isn’t sure but it’s sure interesting how Eman is always gone when the crimes happen…hmmm enter Gretel, to collect Eman whom Oli proclaimed wants nothing to do with him. Oli corners her and begs her to stay, that Eman left them alone on purpose.
Jose is declaring love to Netty, believes she feels the same…all nervous, she is not sure…at the critical juncture Brandon shows up with MarVick.
Ok and our lovebirds Oli and Gretel make up and make out..or do they…she shoves him into a cell and locks him there..Beatch that was not nice….
Ok now we are with Fed and Emil… he is calling her on the DNA analysis re Kristel.
In the video, there’s a group welcome of Mar Vick home from jail and an oh yes you are in the right but need to be careful because of Mau’s accusation etc. Jose is there and he takes Mar’s side, but she wonders if he really could send his amiga Fed to jail - revelation time - she calls him for who he really is… Jose Maria Sevilla. OK, he agrees it’s his name, but he was in jail in error, blah, blah. OK the one most affected here is Netty who wonders about the lies he told her to try to get in her pants - that he came from Veracruz and about his boat etc. yeah those boats get ya every time. He says they just need to trust him. Mar Vick does acknowledge he is dangerous in presence alone for Fedra.
Ok back to Emil lamenting the truth to Fedra about Kristel, this is the worst she could have done to him, he hates her, she’s betrayed him his whole life…I don’t know, electrocution might not be so good either, but anyway…he wants to know what else she’s lying about,what other of his kids aren’t his. Hee, well let’s count shall we? Imagine, so we think it’s only Axhole that carries his blood right? I think the TV went on with these two way too long…
In the video we are back at Netty’s and Vicky and she are chatting about how to bring about Mar again, they also chat about Jose Maria being alive and being Eman’s true Dad. Emil and Eman will be so hurt…Netty thinks Jose suspects all this and he’s worked really hard to be around Eman. She worries about Emil.
Back at the face off, Fed swears only Kristel doesn’t carry his blood…he says enough, she needs to go. Eh not so fast, she has the shovel for the gold right under her arm…if he turns over all his assets to her, she’ll give him the divorce. Of course he won’t give her a centavo. Oh well, I was hoping she would be worth getting rid of, but we still have a few capitulos left and we all know the horrid death she must die, so no easy pay off out for her…the torture continues…sigh… And that’s where I picked up with the TV version, right before the commercial of course…
In the video, Gretel is telling Axhole she's sure Mari will return and will need everyone's support. He promises that, but hopes Vicki will then leave because she made him marry that unfaithful tart, who deceived him in his own house. Bleh...Gretl makes a smirk and I want to punch the brat. Sheesh. Then he spills that he gave Deli hers, he made her his, believing he loved her, and then dumped her on the spot. Gretl smacks him hard! YEAH someone finally hits this guy!! Gretel also gives him a piece of her mind, how dare he, etc. I say he needs a piece of iron skillet on his noggin...I guess this didn't show up in the TV version? Travesty.
So now we got to Muni coming home all thrilled they released Eman and Ili must be so happy. Nope she's upset, she went to see Brandon who wants nothing to do with her or her family, even you Mama, so watch it and don't go to see him.
Next we are at the pool with Orange Boy and Kris and she is telling him Ili's preggers. Mau takes unusual interest in this and wants to know how far along she is...Kris freaks out about his question thinking of the charges on him and makes him swear he had nothing to do with Ili...he swears she came after him and he obliged, but I'm not sure if that was the wedding day, or earlier...
Now we rejoin the TV version with Mau telling Kris they agreed to forget all that crap and the important thing is that we are together again now. He kisses her and enter jealous Low who asks what he is doing...stunned looks from Kris like who the f are you? So of course I think the TV missed the mark on the important exchange which was Mau extreme interest in Ili's bump...anyway, so now we go back to the casa where Marinela returns. Ruiz de Teresas come out of the woodwork to make some comments towards her...the gist of this is Emil and then Fedra's accusation that Vick is Mar and Mar is Vick. Everyone wonders about this. Ili refuses to believe it, says no way.
Back in the online version Kristel tells Low he has no claim on her, so what the hell, he claims he is protecting her from slime like Mau. She says buzz off.
Back on TV, Kristel joins the questioning crew and remarks that even Eman knows who she really is. Vick says, actually, Jorrid is collecting Mari right now at the airport, and trust me, when you see her you will realize I am not she. The real owner of this house will return. Fed smirks... She says if Vick is not the real owner aka Mari, then she can go and she orders Nereida to help her pack, MV orders Pau to set up something nice in the garden for a great welcome for Mari Deli offers to help, but MV reminds Deli she is not a servant any more...Fed smirks that their marriage will be anulled soon...
Back in videoland we are treated to the independently mobile breasts of Jacqui who bugs Jorge about why Andres is still working there. Jorg says they can't send him off because of his illness and if they did him, they'd have to do her too. She says that was all invented to get Andres back, she's not sick, and if he helps, he too apparently gets to operate the remote control for her breasts. I swear I was waiting for them to take off by themselves...jeepers. He looks off in the distance not swayed. I think he's keeping his eyes out of the runway should they spin out of control.
Now, we are upstairs with the three chicas in the know, they are chatting about how awxful axhole is, and MV can't believe it. Deli is glad Jorge saved her. Gretl tells MV to forgive Jorge, he had his reasons for hiding the investigation of her Papa, and anyway he is Mari's hubby, so you need him more than ever now.
MV agrees. Eman shows up and wants to talk to her alone. He thinks if she's such good friends with Mar she should stay and Mar would love her company. She says she can't and yeah, she betrayed her with Jorge that one night, but more importantly she fell in love with Eman like an idiot and there is too much between Mari and him.
More bionic boobs trying to persuade Jorge.. these sure are interesting and woes be the TV audience is missing it all. She wants Andres dropped as a model. Jorge thinks her game is cruel, but he'll think about it only if she brings him the test results that she is not sick. She agrees. Until then, have your breasts propel you on out of here. And they pretty much do..
The commandante is asking Brandon and Oliver what ELDP has to do with Jose Maria...they don't know except clearly there is something between the two.
Back on TV, the commandante continues that he worries maybe they have been chasing the wrong person and wondes what they are waiting for. Brandon pleads that they need more evidence and time to develop the case…then they can move in. Back at the house Doris is preparing to un-Jenny Craig Vicky de la Gartha into fat Marianela. Netty worries some worts over this, but Doris’ mom assures her this is what Doris went to school for in LA. All will be well…we go through some making up scenes…frankly they should have cut all this instead of Axhole getting wacked by his sis, so we end up with bangs placement e voila, a fat Marinela that according to Ili, looks nothing like Vicky…it’s hard sometimes, I know with all that wool over their eyes in TV land, but I think I’d be suspicious…. :)
So now in TV land we are in for the garden party. Axel is complaining something about Delicia and Gman is trying to chill him. Kristel and Mau show up to everyone’s disgust. She says they are “dating” again and Eman decides to pull him over to the side. He suggests Mau apologize to everyone and just leave now. He knows that Mau abused his wife Ili and can’t believe he has the cajones to show up here after that. Get out. Kris comes over, surmising what they are chatting about and reminds Eman his wife is a liar and besides, Mau has no reason to abuse (well,take sexual liberties) anyone with me around, (ha, yeah a quality I always look for in a man) so why don’t you worry about your wife instead of MY boyfriend. Wifey will put the horns on anyone she sees in front of her and besides you should investigate, that kid she’s carrying is not even yours…BYE. She’s actually a pretty great actress. They depart Eman with his mouth open, a bit.
Suddenly a Disney moment, screams from beyond ,and there she is, the Fat Lady has returned. Marinela smiles on the arm of Jorge…Eman beams repeating her name over and over…
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Back at the garden party, Ili and Kris, BFFs forever, are comenting on how fat or fatter Mari is, when Ili pulls Kris over and wants to know what she was chatting about with Eman for so long. Tee hee Kris retorts, well, either you admit to everyone that Mau never abused you, or I tell Eman your baby daddy is that copper, Brandon. You decide, tee hee…and she runs away. Gape mouth on Ili. Back to everyone goo -gahing over the Gordita…she’s back everyone missed her she gets some squushhy squeezes from Eman. Mostly she just beams….
Now we go to Doris with Andres at a clinic she brought him there because it’s highly probable that Jacqui invented all of this just to get back at him and they should learn for sure. No false hopes, but she is behind him all the way. OOOoooH! And they go in.
Back to the garden party, one after another folks greet her and say their little piece, Axel promises to be better to her, she says it’s in the past, and he’s married Delicia, who pipes up and Axhole showing exactly how much he has matured makes copycat faces in her direction. Ok, where’s that frying pan when you need it. Sniper in the woods, maybe? We can always hope…anyway.
Ili of course has biting words about her weight, and wonders how she can walk around with all that fat..Mari shoots back why don’t you tell me in a few months when you get this fat too from your pregnancy. Ha good one. So now she moves back to Feddi, and wonders what she is looking at…she wants to give her sobrina a hug…ouch, it turns into a fishing expedition as Fedra tries to pull up her shirt and proclaims miserably it feels like skin…Mari proclaims it her her skin, you freak…well I’m sure she was thinking that.
Online, they show us more of Andres at the clinic professing to Doris he is scared and she convincing him it will be ok either way, she holds him to her breasts.
Emil chats with Mari and invites her to now relax and enjoy the food they have prepared. She makes a comment that she’s not sure if she should, in case Fed has poisoned it again. Fed spits back something about her being ungrateful and unappreciative for them taking her in or something. The conversation turns to Tia Carlota and Emil wants Mari to clear it all up for them. Emil hopes she brought the proof because he will see to it that the guilty are made to pay. Mari says nope, unfortunately accidental fire got all that stuff, all I have is my word. Ili says that ain’t nothin…nonetheless, Mari is here to get her house back, and her inheritance from the woman who surely caused Carlota’s death. Emil wonders who that could be, and everyone looks at Fed. She says it ain't her, she was in Spain. Yeah, and Eman says you were also in Switzerland, Gretel says to visit me, only I was locked in the cave, remember???? They all know she is lying, so she admits she was in Madrid but that doesn't mean she killed Carlota. What funny dialogue.
Online more of Andres wimping out on the test, feeling ill, and running away from the room..
They chat about Almudena, Tia's headmaid, as a witness who saw Fedi there the day Carli died, but no, she didn't see any actual murder. Mari agrees it’s not Fedra, yep, it’s a woman named Juana Felipe Perez. Mari swears she will find her and send her to jail and beyond. Fed musters a sort of huh, kind of smile. Mari wants to go say hi to Tio Max. Eman wants to go with her, but Jorge her husband says not so fast buckeroo, I can take care of my wife, why don’t you tend to YOUR wife. Eman fights, but in the end is left with no one to play with.
Online we have Eugenio the lawyer showing up to say that Vicky must appear at the hearing tomorrow and Netty tells him he better not let her get caught on a crime she didn't commit. He says they have to prepare a really good defense, because Mau's lawyer defends mafiosos and big shots. he swears (taking Netty's hand) that he will do all he can for his precious. Just then Jose Maria walks in: well, you'll have to go through me first, as I will do all I can to get her into bed, er, win her hand...Ah intriguing.
I love it when men fight over you as if you were a possession. near as I can tell, when guys do that, a gal can just get up and walk away, that neither gets her. I learned the animal kingdom does this too, when mating lions or chimps will fight over the female, if the males fight too long or earnestly, the female moves on. Good for her. So these baboons end up fighting over her with words. Netty tells Eugenio he shouldgo prepare for the case, Jose asks Glad to leave so he can chat alone with Netty. In the meantime he gets a call there from Veracruz...he wonders que the hell, turns out it's Fed...Ah, now it makes sense how they meet up.
Tio is in the loop re fat- no fat, and he wonders how she was able to get so fat so fast, she tells him about Doris, he remembers how she helped Gretel. Now he wonders why Mari went through all this…she tells him of Fed’s discovery of her being the same and that they needed to put her off track a little. She continues to tell him there is a person from Fed's past who is still alive who can prove lots of things and she’s pretty sure that person will side with them. Ah, the plot thickens. Jorge doesn’t know of any of this either and is shocked when Mari tells about it. OK, so online
now we go to a bar where Jairo and Gman are chatting about ELDP and the latest developments. Gman is very excited. The bar manager is watching from afar, curious about the closeness of these two, er, men. Jairo is kissing Gmanolo on the cheek. Oliver rushes up in jealous rage…Gman breaks it up but yells at him that Jairo is right and he doesn’t have any of the things Jairo has that a woman like her needs. Or something like that. Whoops, woman? Bar manager wonders what is happening.
Back to the house Eman visits Max, looking for Mari of course, but Max tells him to let her be she’s past history. He says yeah, but there is this chemistry….
So now we go to Andres, who apologizes to Jacqui for all he's done, everyone makes mistakes. He tells her he chickened out at the clinic, but please tell him if she's really sick.
Netty listens to MV on the phone about how Mari's appearance went over at the Ruiz de T house. Netty is reminding MV on the phone she needs to appear at the judges as Vicky tomorrow.
Next Vicky is hassling Ili on the phone about Mari being here and her being nervous because she’s so in love with Eman. Eman overhears Ili's side of the conversation, so Ili tells him Vicky was bugging her again. She wants to know what Kris and Mau told him. He can’t talk now, he’s going to find Mari.
Andres is again begging Jacqui to know the truth. She says you have SIDA, and more, you deserve it for all of your infidelity and promiscuity.He can't believe it and begs her pardon. She says no and I hope you rot in hell for all you've done, who knows how many more women are suffering what I am. She leaves.
We resume on TV with Fed/Jauna running into Jose Maria outside somewhere. She greets him as sailor of the seven seas, he her as prostitute of 1001 bars. This guy is good!! She wants him to leave, he rips and throws down the ticket she has just given him. She wants him out of her affairs, he says or what, you’ll kill me? She tells him you determine that oh great seer of the future…anyway this goes no where really, so she pulls out a gun.
Eman finally gets close to Mari, he wonders where her hubby is, she says he went out to buy her chocolates, but his wife will probably be looking for him, so he should go.. he says they have stuff to talk about after 2 years. Ili made him believe that Vicky sent Mau to assault her the day of their wedding, but that is a lie. Kristel is assuring him that Ili is pursuing Mau, and that her baby is maybe not even Eman’s. Mari doesn’t know from all that, he should really be checking it with his wife. He wants to confirm some things first. Kris knows Ili best and he thinks this could hurt Ili if this wasn’t true because they are best friends and all but MAri knows neither she nor Vick had anything to do with what happened on their wedding day. That you have to believe, she says. He can’t see how Ili would make something like that up. Mari knows that girl is a big fat liar, so she certainly could. She has to tell him their lives are different now, and they lead separate lives.
Uh oh, back with Fed and the gun. Jose spews some words at her and challenges her to kill him. She puts the gun right to his heart, and whoops wardrobe failure...nothing comes out. It's funny to watch her try to get the gun to release. he thinks maybe it's not his time then, but alas it's hers, and he puts a friggin' huge knife right to her throat. Yikes...
Back to Eman and Mari and he professes he still loves her, and he goes in for a kiss. She cuts him off right away, that she is married and he'd better respect that.
Ok well Jose doesn't get far with the knife either...she keeps trying to shoot him with the lame gun then just goes to choke him. He doesn't, however, stab her, preferring to be choked until she pulls away and proclaims no one does her in.
Eman apologizes to Mari, he just can't help his impulses, etc. He wants to go back, he was so happy. He even made himself into another person to try and forget her. Huh, she wonders what he means? She forgives him, they hug, then Jorge comes in and sees them, not happy is he.
Meanwhile over at Netty's Brandon is there and they are chatting about the Mari thing, and how Vicky needs to disappear, when Ili walks up, hears, and wonders why? She tries to find Vicky there, though they keep telling her Vicky isn't home. She tries to go upstairs to find her.
There is some arguing about her not being here, and starting over a new life and Ili jokes,oh with you Brandon? In the other house there is arguing about what chocolates Mari really likes and why are you still here, etc. They could have cut all this in my opinion...the only important thing is Mar Vick fears she can't keep this up in front of Eman, he'll figure her out, and she is hurting him, she tells Jauma.
Then the take away tidbit from the other house, is during the scuffle to get upstairs, Ili begins to suffer abdominal pains...uh oh, will naco fetus cease to be? Will the true baby daddy of nacofetus come to light? Tune in Tues to find out!!
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