Thursday, March 08, 2012
El Talismán #26 Wed 3/7/12 The Najera Freaky Friday ... Miss KooKoo with the rope in the bedroom... and the poisoned pig's tantrums
Recap by Marta Ivett
Labels: Talisman
Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Abysm / Abyss of passion, new show starts Monday
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Estefanía tries to dissuade Rosendo from abandoning his family, but an automobile accident ends both their lives, so Carmine's able to convince Augusto that his wife had been unfaithful to him.
Augusto, disgusted, decides to marry Carmina though he does not love her. Alfonsina decides to send Damián away from the town to study (in order to separate him from Elisa, his dear friend, upon whom Alfonsina does not gaze with friendly eyes).
Years later, Damián comes back, now an adult and enaged to be married to Florencia Landuchi, whom he met while studying in Italy.
Paolo Landuchi, Florencia's uncle, is drawn by Elisa's beauty, but since she doesn't pay him no mind, he tries to rape her with Carmina as his accomplice. However, when Paolo is about to achieve his objective Damián appears, punches out his lights and saves Elisa.
Damián falls in love with Elisa and vice versa, so his old friend Gael becomes his enemy; Gael has also loved Elisa since he was a boy.
Augusto finds out about the relationship between Damián and Elisa, and haunted by memories of the betrayal of Rosendo and Estefanía, he frightens Elisa by threatening to kill Damián. Desperate, determined to protect the man she loves, Elisa agrees to marry Gael despite the great misery this causes her friend Paloma González who has always been crazy in love with him.
At the moment Gael and Elisa stand before the alter, Damián ...
In this land, sins are not forgiven and the past is not frogotten. Submerge yourself in the abysm of passion.
Labels: abismo, synopsis-cast
Una Familia Con Suerte #153-154 Wed 3/7/12 Chela cooks up a storm to find a way to Pancho's heart.
Vince promises Candy he only said he'd sell her to Napoleon in order to "gain time." He wants to talk to Napoleon directly, to find his weaknesses. "He has no weaknesses," Candy says. She frowns at the little red box containing a whopper of a diamond ring. She's afraid. To distract her, Vince asks about the future. She wants ten children! She's worried for Vince, not herself. He shows his muscles.
At the dinner table, Pancho says "Chela and I are going to try." The kids are surprised but cautiously positive.
Cheeto and Rebeca, at a fancy restaurant, talk about moving to Miami together. She doesn't look very happy about it. They'll visit Eastern Europe. Or Alaska! Or Africa! She won't kiss him on the lips ... but Pancho, who's been dancing nose to nose with Chela, does kiss his starry-eyed cunis on the lips. We yawn.
Fer and the Doc spent an elegant evening dancing to Agustin Lara. She's been so close to death, she doesn't think about it, but enjoys every moment. He has a cute plan: let's run out of the restaurant without paying! Oh how much fun! It makes me mad. (Later he goes back and pays.)
Enzzo dreams about previous Chela snoggings but Moni rains on his daydream: Pancho and Chelo "are going to give it a try." She consoles him sweetly.
Pancho arrives at work talking all whispery/scratchy and pretentious, in a mafia outfit (black shirt, white tie), hair slicked back. Mike arries in a white hat and leather jacket talking funny too. Are they trying to talk like each other? Fail. Enter Rebe dressed like Chela in a frumpy apron talking slang and chewing gum. Oh, of course, it was Pancho's ugly nightmare.
Tomas looks worse than ever when Pepe visits him in jail and slips him money (I guess to bribe the bad guys). Tomas gives money to the thugs but it doesn't turn them friendly.
At college (I thought they'd all quit going) Lupe and Ana do a dull rehash. Lupe feels a little something for Tomas now that he is so hideous...
Freddy meets some prof from UCLA who wants to offer a teaching position.
Ines visits Vince at work. She demands whiskey. She has a solution to their problems: kill Fernanda! Vince screams no! But she says sooner or later Fer will find out Pancho is her son, and she doesn't want him getting his mitts on her dough.
The lawyer Mendoza finally got the security tapes; Pancho invites his daughter to come see them. Pancho sets the table and lays out the tortas and fondly viewing his lunch, decides he should stop calling Chela (who, blegh, put a lovey-dovey-valentine in the torta) his cunis.
Once again the papparazzi published pictures of Mike and Rebe together. Enzo tells Rebe: Chela and Pancho will "formalize their relationship." She says she always knew it! They commiserate.
What? There's a new show "Abyss of Passion" starting Monday?
Ines calls Fer with a fake friendly voice but scary music plays. "I'm so sorry for what happened in Germany, I want to ask your pardon in person - how about tonight?" Fer reluctantly agrees. Ines: "How was my acting?" She preens, Vince says she deserves an Oscar. He's warming to the idea of his aunt's death.
Mike comes in. Ines hits him with her stick for the things he's said that were bad for the stock value. What did he say? Was it when he said he's a felon? Or that the Belle Face stock is overvalued? That Ines was in a coma? She demands his resignation. Vince is happy Mickie is taking Rebe off to Miami because it will hurt Pancho.
Just when I think Candy's dresses couldn't get any more extreme, they do. She shows Fer and Chela the huge diamond ring Napoleon sent.
I don't think the security footage was very definitive, it just showed - a woman in sunglasses - but everybody there is pleased.
Lupe tells her dad: "Don't do it (try it on with Chela). You'll hurt our aunt. You love Rebeca." He compares his situation to hers with Tomas.
Sandra is friendly to Candy because she's in love with Chacho now. She gives Candy an "urgent" envelope to give Vince. When she hands it to him it bursts into tiny flames. Vince is terrified. Candy douses it with his water bottle. He applauds. The mystery woman Debora calls him saying: "This was just a test."
Candy tells Vince she wants him out of danger, so they should end their relationship forever. She leaves crying.
Pancho and Rebe face off: each claims not to care what the other is doing. "When are you resigning?" "As soon as possible." He goes to a sidewalk florist to distract himself by getting flowers for his new squeeze - but not red roses (that flower is for Rebe)...
Candy packs a suitcase poorly in preparation for fleeing. She leaves the diamond ring behind and gets on a bus.
Turns out Fer doesn't believe Ines is coming to bury the hatchet (except maybe in her skull) so she's glad the Doc offers to be at the meeting with her - the meeting Inez is cheerfully preparing for by brandishing a bottle of potassium poison.
Freddy's thinking over his future when his mom calls. Then Ana comes in, all sad because her career is over (because she visited her brother when he seemed to be dying). Freddy valiantly offers to buy all the cds. Now she's sorry she dropped out of college.
For this special first-night-of-being-Pancho's-girlfriend, Chela made every single food she knows how to make, the board is groaning. Everyone's talking. Vince arrives shouting for Candy. He tells them she took her suitcases and left after the letter bomb went off and Napoleon's woman called to say "things won't be so innocuous next time." Neither Vince nor Pancho knows what innocuous means but they know things are bad.
Sandra's father is in a diabetic coma in the hospital. Tell me why we care about this? She and Chacho distract themselves by going to some pretty place and putting fake flowers on their heads. Chacho doesn't drink because his dad was an alcoholic and died of cirrhosis.
Debora tells Napoleon: Candy's phone is still bugged and they can find her any time. While Candy calls home to say nobody can know where she is, Debora hops in the van to get her.
Freddy tells his dad he's been offered the job in L.A. but isn't going to go because of Ana. Pancho arrives and he and Vince yell at each other. Afterwards Vince reminds Freddy that when Ana wanted to make her cd she abandoned Freddy in a second, so he should do the same now!
Rebeka tells Fernanda she's leaving with Mike. Fer says this is the biggest mistake she could make - "You're running away, it won't solve your problems. You don't love Mike."
Fer is at the restaurant of death. Octavio hasn't come with her for some reason. Inez pats the potassium poison in her pocketbook and tries to smile at Fer without cracking her facelift.
Pancho tells Chela they should stop sleeping in separate beds.
Labels: familia
El Talismán #25 Tue 3/6/12 In Which We All Discover It's Not a Good Idea to Eat Avocados Before Bed
Labels: Talisman
La Que No Podía Amar #50 Tuesday 3/6/12 Tears, Shrieking, and an Angry Man in a Black Cowboy Hat
UPDATE: My Internet is back, I've had some rest, I have a nice bottle of Coca Cola at hand which has energized me, and have now fleshed out this recap a little bit. Put a fork in it, it is done.
I know, I know, that title could fit just about any episode of LQNPA!
I had a long tiring day, and only half-watched LQNPA as I was capturing it to my computer. I am now waiting for the video to process so I can watch it for real and get my screencaps. In the meantime, I do have some vague memory of what happened, and have a downloaded version of the episode which I saw previously. So until I can get my butt in gear and write a more detailed recap (which won't be that detailed because I am tired and lazy, and let's face it, this was a total bummer episode) here is a screencap from the downloaded episode.
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Rohell looks impactado at the news of Fed's sudden death. |
Here's an overview of what happened tonight:
* La Vaca withholds Fed's pills, screaming at him to denounce Cupcake. He doesn't do so, so she watches as he expires on the floor.
* Vainessa and Sinthia are talking on the phone. Kvetching about the Cupcake being dad's bastarda. They learn that Rohell is hell on wheels bent to recapture his errant Cupcake at Boring del Cielo. They wish there was a way to throw him off the scent. David, who is sitting with Vainessa, pipes up and says, "I know someone there." He later calls Juan and they set things up.
* Tia MentiRosa decides she's now "too good" to hang out with her jewelery-selling friend, Elena. She dumps Elena, citing that her new, more elevated social circle won't accept Elena. Elena leaves, angry, but not before telling Tia off.
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Tia gives Elena the old heave-ho. |
* How many hours or minutes despues, I don't know, but Vainessa is told to come home and returns to see her dad still ON THE FLOOR, DEAD. Everyone stands around and watches as she cries over her DEAD FATHER who is STILL LYING ON THE SAME SPOT ON THE FLOOR, but no Mexican version of 911 has been called, no medical professionals are at the scene, nothing. There is talk of the undertaker coming to cart the body away. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Please don't tell me this is normal for Mexico, or anywhere. Even my industrial strength beanie is having trouble with this one.
* Back at the hacienda, Sin and Maria are talking about how Rohell has gone off to retrieve Cupcake himself. Dany comes in and wants to see Miguel. A shrewish, completely unsympathetic Sin says no, because it's too late in the evening. Sin then gets a call from David, telling her of the news of Fed's death.
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Sin is impactada to hear of Fed's death. |
* Rohell yells at the ever-faithful Hugo when their truck gets stuck in the mud on the way to Boca del Cielo. Eventually they get there, though.
* Cupcake and MentiRosa are both distressed at the news of Fed's sudden death. Cupcake because he papa died, MentiRosa because her meal ticket died.
* La Vaca claims that Fed died because she couldn't get him his pills in time. (Lying vaca!) Then she goes on to blame Cupcake for all of this, as if Cupcake's appearance is what did Fed in. Vainessa buys into this and the two shrews spend most of the rest of the episode shrieking about how this is all Cupcake's fault.
* Bad guy fisherman Juan is on hand to lie to Rohell when he goes to Cupcake's hotel to ask if she's there. Juan then tells Cupcake that a mutual friend (she assumes it's Bruno) had him send off her husband on a wild goose chase to some other town with a name I will not even attempt to spell.
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Rohell arrives at Cupcake's hotel and starts to ask for her . . . |
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Lying fisherman Juan tells Rohell that he gave Cupcake a ride to a different town... |
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. . . and Rohell leaves after throwing lying Juan a wad of bills. |
* Rohell doesn't find Cupcake but vows to keep looking and orders his men to keep looking. He suspects that something was not right about not being able to find her in Boca del Cielo. He returns to the hacienda, sans Cupcake, and is shocked to hear of the news of Fed's death.
* At Fed's funeral, MentiRosa makes a spectacle of herself hovering over Fed's coffin and caressing his picture. La Vaca is is deeply offended and the two shrews have words.
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La Vaca approaches MentiRosa, who has plastered herself all over Fed's coffin. |
* Vainessa has to sign off on some of Fed's unfinished business, sees the bill for MentiRosa's hotel room, and doesn't pay it.
* There's some cutesy stuff between Cupcake and Guscake. Gus will help her out, whatever, I wasn't paying attention. FF>>>
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Gus vows to be supportive and help Cupcake, now that she's lost her papa. |
* There's some stuff with Mersnotty and Ernesto that doesn't interest me. Mersnotty's friend Chio brings over Ernesto to see Mersnotty and I forget what else. FF >>> Oh, I watched this now. Ernesto is recounting how he and Mersnotty broke up years earlier, he married this other woman hoping to forget Mersnotty. He was going to ask for a divorce but the wife was pregnant, so he decided to stick around. . . blah blah. Regrets, sadness, now he has this snotty little daughter around who won't accept Mersnotty. FF for real this time. FF >>>
* Rohell calls up Sinthia and b*tches about her going off on her own (I think). She's at a restaurant while having this conversation and Effer is getting frisky with her as she's trying to have a serious conversation with her foul-tempered brother. Effer's antics are very funny.
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Sin is on the phone with the Angry Man in a Black Cowboy Hat as Effer gets frisky. |
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More of Effer and his public display of affection. . . |
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He dips below table level to do . . . whatever . . . |
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. . . and is disappointed when Sin pushes him away. |
* Rohell, in a bad mood (as if there is a time when he's not in a bad mood!) rolls into Miguel's room and asks if Cupcake has any friends or anyone she knows in (other town that I won't even attempt to spell). Miguel doesn't know anything. Rohell threatens Miguel and says he'll make sure he returns to jail if he doesn't tell all that he knows. Miguel looks like a deer in the headlights.
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Rohell on wheels barrels into Miguel's room, with important questions on his mind. He sends Dani off so he can talk to the Unibrow. |
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Rohell threatens Miguel with a return to the jail if Miguel doesn't tell all! |
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The Unibrow has a deer in the headlights look. |
* Cupcake and MentiRosa are wringing their hands in the hotel room that Fed paid for when there's a knock on the door. It's Vainessa! END OF EPISODE!
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Cupcake is shocked by the appearance of Vainessa at the hotel room. |
AVANCES: MentiRosa calls Rohell and indicates that she's with Cupcake. Rohell looks beyond relieved.
Bonus picture with a technical note:
Labels: no-podia
Abismo de Pasión-index
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Una Familia Con Suerte #151-152 Tue 3/6/12
Labels: familia
El Talismán #24 Mon 3/5/12 It’s always sunny in Fresno
I will be out of town on a fun, short trip from Thursday through next Monday or Tuesday so I thought I would be the sub for this Monday’s recap. Blue Lass will post headers for discussion for Thursday’s recap. Oh, and next Monday’s too unless someone else decides to recap it.
The title? Well, it *does* always seem to be sunny in El Tal Fresno, and I was too lazy to think of a better title.
Reminder from last night in the words of Novela Maven:
As soon as Camila closes her bedroom door, Lu slinks out from her hidey-hole and needles Pedro about getting snubbed by Cami.
Alone in the bedroom, Cami reconsiders. Maybe she was a bit prudish – what’s a little kiss, after all?
She opens her door to rejoin Pedro ... just a second or two after LuCraziest has pulled Pedro onto her face.
Camila gives them the stinkeye. The credits roll before Pedro can say “Déjame explicar ...”
Tonight:
And does he explain? Well...no because Cami hears Pedro tell Loo to lay off and Cami rips him a new one for yet again luring a woman to him with his masculine wiles and then rejecting her. Hey folks, I don’t write this crap I just report it. Pedro tells LooKrazia to leave El Tal now (Vete ya = Leave already) and tries to do damage control with Cami the drama queen. Yell, rant, rave, Cami says Loo goes or she goes. Pedro, just tell her.
Renato welcomes El Viral to “his” spectacular palace complete with faux butler. It is a palace so clearly not his. He tells El Viral that he prefers staying at his niece’s apartment. “You must really love her,” observes El Viral. Uh, sort of. Renato tells her he’s looking for a wife.
The Harlot and the Belt Buckle fight about their daughters, Doris says they will never accept Camila. Tony kindly says Camila will be a better mother than Doris. The lovebirds continue this constructive conversation for another scene or two.
Pedro pushes Cami around a little and finally tells her he told LooKrazia to leave. Loo is listening outside the door and indicates to herself she doesn’t agree with this plan. She calls Tony with this update and he tells her to calm down, Operation Opprobriate Pedro Soon (OOPS) is about to go into motion, a newspaper article blaming him for his wife’s disappearance.
Panchito reports to Pigorio that he doesn’t have any chisme or proof of plots yet. Pigorio gripes that LooKrazia is manipulating Antonio and turning him against dad.
Pedro keeps telling Cami that she doesn’t trust him. She tries, she says, but she just can’t. He doesn’t trust her either. I’m having a deja vu here. Didn’t I recap this same conversation last Thursday? I guess the 8 or so scenes from last week weren’t enough. He insists he was found innocent of making Mariana disappear. More blathering and Pedro leaves in a huff.
El Viral strolls around the house admiring trinkets and photos. Be careful Elvira or you’ll slip on your own drool. Ren pretends to be oh, so sad because his sister, mother of Rita, died. Rita is his only relative and he’s so very lonely. He’s looking for someone who wants him for himself, not his money. Oh brother.
Meanwhile the maids set the table for dinner and gripe at the butler for putting them in this mess. What if the real owner shows up? Oho, apparently Rita is keeping him busy with her little lace and vinyl underthingies, promising him the best night of his life.
Cami runs to Geno crying her eyes out because she and Pedro are fighting about the same old thing. I totally get that, they make me want to cry too. In another deja vu from last week Pedro is once again saying “No más” and is about to go after Cami.
Pedro finds Cami’s room empty and hunts her down. I think he’s going to go into neanderthal mode again. Yep!! He grabs the amazon, flings her over his shoulder and takes her back to his cave. Well, her room actually, and he romantically locks her in. Dude, you are such a chick magnet, no wonder they can’t resist you.
El Viral says the night is perfect, just like Renato, gag. Cue the dispassionate kissing. Oh cool, we get to hear their thoughts while they eat. Ren doesn’t want to wait, he’ll propose marriage. Elvira is orgasmically eating her dessert, thinking about the riches to come. Renato escorts Elvira to the boudoir. She’s a little nervous but his amazingly boring kisses soon thaw the ice queen.
Pedro can’t resist going back into the bedroom and fighting some more with Cami even though a few minutes ago he said “No más. Fight, yell, blame, I love you, you’re stubborn. Pedro: "Believe me or leave me."
Pigorio dreams about running into Elvira at the GAGG ball and her calling him an ugly old fart. He wakes up sweaty, ugly and probably farty too, and says he might be old but he’s still the boss of everyone and she’s going to be his diamond.
Over at the the best little whorehouse in Fresno Doris complains to Brigitte that now more than ever she needs to seduce Pigorio and get him to marry her. The overly dramatic music tells us this is very heavy news indeed, but the mask just makes me want to laugh.
Armani is mooning over pics of Fabiola on his laptop. He kvetches about seducing both sisters. Loser.
On the other side of the tracks Fabi wants to show Flor pics of Armani. Saved by a knock on the door. It’s daddy and he wants to talk and explain that he was very mad when he murdered grandpa’s wall safe. Wow, he tells them about granny’s will and that grandpa ignored it and kept the whole rancho for himself. More importantly, he’s asking mom for a divorce and he wants to girls to stay with him. The girls say they will not accept his new girlfriend Camila.
LooKrazy goes to Cami’s room to hang out, have a slumber party, play records, do each other’s nails and talk about boys. Well, that last part is true. Loo’s happy to see Cami suffering. They take turns insisting Pedro will be hers. What a stupid party.
Pedro’s boozing it up and Aunt Patty’s worried. She scolds him that getting drunk won’t help. Au contraire, I say, get some booze in the guy and see if he warms up a little. He’s slightly more animated but basically repeats the conversation about Cami not trusting him. Aunt Patty says he’s a dumba$$, LooKrazia’s behind all this and all he and Cami do is go around in circles. Amen sister. Pedro talks about maybe going back to Tijuana to see his peeps. Uh oh, Aunt Patty reveals that Sister Luciana died a few days ago.
Tony admits it’s true about his girlfriend. He hopes they’ll give Camila a chance because she’s simply marvelous. They mumble they’ll try for his sake. He can’t understand why they defend their mama when she’s never given them the time of day. He says the girls have disillusioned him for not being on his side 100%.
Brigitte doesn’t seem as excited as Doris about her idea to marry Pigorio. Doris whines about Elvira, the new old kid in town who intrigues Pigorio. She needs to snag Pigorio before Tony throws her into the street. Brigitte knits her brows.
Oh ick, Renato and Elvira get horizontal as she keeps saying “No puedo”. Oh sure you can. Cue the 70’s romance music.
Next morning Pedro gathers the troops and tells them he’s going to Tijuana to put flowers on Sister Luciana’s grave. And he might not return. Gasp!
Renato admires himself in the mirror while El Viral sleeps. He goes downstairs and compliments the staff. If all goes well with Elvira he’ll give them a huge tip. Elvira wakes and thanks God for giving Renato do her, what a man! What a lover! What a crock.
Speaking of tips, Rita’s rich Gordo hands her a wad of cash and happily tells her his wife is in Europe for three months and he wants to spend every night with her! The sleazy background music is a hoot, with some guy crooning “oh baby” while Rita cringes at the thought. She calls Renato to tell him her Gordo is on the way home. Renato runs upstairs with a rose and tells Elvira they’re going to breakfast on his yacht after stopping by his office. Hurry up! As Elvira dresses he berates himself for making up that crap about a yacht. What’s he gonna do now?
Tracy shows up at Alcatrash to talk to Panchito. Alberta tells her about LooKrazia moving in at El Tal. Poor Camila, says Tracy. She also thinks Panchito is up to something and she’s going to find out what it is.
Panchito’s pathetically following Pigorio around, calling him papa and being concerned for his health. Pig says whatever Pancho does don’t let Tony know he’s sick, otherwise the Pig's unit will shrink. Panchito reports that Tony and Doris got in a big fight and the girls don’t want to accept Tony’s new novia Camila. Pigorio says he’s going to disown Tony and make Panchito his true son. Panchito swallows the hook big time. He might as well just start filleting himself now.
Flor talks with Alberta as Tony strolls through the room. He shuns his daughter and grouses that he wants to have breakfast outside, alone, so he can think. He can’t believe his own daughters turned their backs on him. That jerk-off is more immature than his kids. The girls spy on him while he’s pouting and drinking his breakfast. Doris joins them and they glare at her. So now Doris gets her turn to talk to the girls. She knows something is going on between the girls and their Papa. She tells them about having to marry young and basically tries to get their sympathy. Flor cries; mission accomplished.
Tony and Valentin pace the porch and wonder where LooKrazia is. Tony wants Valentin to somehow keep Pigorio from going to his office at the usual time for some reason, to plant the poison pills I guess. Then they talk about Panchito, he’s a useless gossip and a big brown-noser when it comes to Pigorio.
Panchito sees Tracy and tells her a lot has happened to him lately. She accuses him of neglecting her, maybe he doesn’t deserve her love. He promises that his current busy-ness will be better for both of them. When Tracy looks away he picks his nose. If he grabs her with that hand I’m going to barf. He says finally Pigorio is going to put Panchito in his rightful place. Nose-picking foreman maybe. Or lead engineer for the mining of Alcatrash boogers.
Tony recalls getting Elvira’s fingerprints on the pills and tells himself she’ll be accused of killing the Pig. Then he mumbles his last statement so badly I couldn’t understand him! Probably something about Camila being all his. Doesn’t really matter because it will be repeated at least twenty times.
Avances: Pedro asks Camila to go to Tijuana with him. LooKrazia sabotages the truck.
Labels: Talisman
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