Friday, December 11, 2015

Pasión y Poder, Episode 26, Thursday, December 10, 2015: Never piss off the cook


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The Foundation, the office where Julia goes to moon over Arturo
Regina pops in for a surprise visit to Julia, who quickly tucks away Arturo's letter in a desk drawer.

The Beach in Acapulco, where a maudlin chapter draws to a close
Justino holds Maribel's lifeless body in his arms and sobs.

The Foundation
Regina tells Julia that she truly loves David – she is not her father's puppet.  Julia seems moved by Regina's sincerity.  She tells the younger woman's it's hard to believe she's the daughter of Arturo and his.... um... that she's Arturo's daughter.   Regina reminds her very much of Arturo.

Outside Gómez Luna Associates
Francisco and Clara are chatting about their plans for the weekend in Acapulco when Justino calls with the tragic news about Maribel.  Francisco, mensch that he is, offers to do what needs to be done.  

[Tertiary character dies: the Rules clearly stipulate that the Patio is excused from the funeral, right?]
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Yo No Creo En Los Hombres, Capitulo 105 Thurs 12/10/15: There's no sweet end, only the bitter aftertaste

Even after all he’s Done, MD would forgive Daniel (she is Esperanza’s daughter, after all), but then he’d never learn. Looks like she’s already preparing to change the dynamic; Daniel Junior won’t get Ursula remixed in wide-eyed MD. Daniel argues that the thing with Julian was an accident. He would have never tried to hurt her, he didn’t want Julian to die; he was just trying to get the gun away from her. If they stick with that, she’ll get out quickly and they can’t accuse Dan of anything (um…hold up on that second part). No dice with MD; Dan pushed her to the brink, drove her to a point where she felt she had to use a gun. Dan’s lawyer jumps in here to say it’ll take months to prove that, months in which she’ll stay in prison. And for what? Julian’s already dead-CRACK! MD slaps him across the face and yells at him and Dan will pay for everything he’s done to her before stomping off. In response Dan swears she’ll be sorry if she does anything rash.

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Antes Muerta Que Lichita #56 Thursday 12/10/15: Lessons Every Telenovela Character Needs to Learn



Rehash of what has happened over the last few episodes but lets get straight to the point:

Alicia is speechless as she sees the "sick" Gumaro standing and acting like this is his everyday norm. He wonders why Alicia is giving him a weird look and she spells it out for him...she has never seen Gumaro in anything but a wheelchair. As he invites her in Gumaro's mouth runs far ahead of his brain. He tells her she must know everything by now since she came for the luggage. She just muffles a yea sure as he yaps away. He tells her she then knows that Beto and Gumaro are not actually brothers and he really is not sick. All of these lies Roberto had to make-up so that he can use her to get into Iconika...because you know he did not know a thing about the being a publicist.  Alicia quietly takes this all in.

Lesson 1: Facial expressions are not adornments and usually mean something.
To understand what a character is feeling just pay attention. An extra bonus is to do
so when they think you are not looking. 

In the mansion, Rafael chastises Luciana for verbally harassing her very own cousin. He is very disappointed in her since he feels that they did not raise her to be like this. Both Luciana and Dafne start fighting again and it is not long before Rafael starts clutching his chest. He tells them not to worry, he just needs his pills but cannot remember where he placed them. 


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Muchacha Italiana Viene A Casarse #76 Thu 12/10/15 (Mex 105-106) Set a course for the weddings! Warp 2? 3?

Voyeur Luca thought bubbles that Fi deserves to be happy.  With all due respect…screw Fi!  I deserve to be happy.  Uh…we!  We deserve to be happy!  And Fi marrying Vitto will not make us happy.  But before Luca can actually say anything, the undead arrives, shouting for his bride-to-be.  Luca claims he was looking for her, too, but whaddayaknow, she's not here!  Fi and Pedro continue with the heavy breathing.  And then DANTE is screaming for Fi.  Because apparently his job has jack to do with security, but everything to do with tormenting Fi.  He gives her a hard time about slacking on the job and nearly finds Pedro hiding in her room.  She is summoned to Eloisa's.

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Muchacha Italiana Viene A Casarse #75 Wed 12/9/15 (Mex 104) The weddings approach at the speed of sloth

El lives in some kind of fantasy world and she's horribly offended that Gael would ask such a question about his sainted parents, who she loved dearly and misses.  His mom was awesome and his dad would never have been a "cornudo" (cuckold; dude who was cheated on)  Sure, Os Sr. was a horrible ass who treated his wife badly, BUT THEY LOVED EACH OTHER!

Gi finds the picture of her new jail and is…impressed.  Except that it makes her relationship with Gael more difficult.  Even when Fi points out that she can invite Gael over Gi is not convinced and would rather find out what happened at the dress fitting.  "But I thought if he saw you in your dress…."  Oops!  Backpedal, backpedal, backpedal.  Fi says Pedro's a rock and won't be moved by anyone.  Gi's grateful for everything he has done for them, though, and so Fi agrees she shouldn't be so hard on him.


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Pasión y Poder #25 Wednesday 20151209 It's Episode 25, Christmas is on the 25th! Coincidence? I Think Not! Maribel is Dead...I Hope! Yeah Baby!

The Foundation

Julia asks her ex-fiance to take a David's.Not.Art's kid test.  She explains that Eladio doesn't believe David is his.  He thinks that Dave is Art's son.  Anyway, from what Julia says, Art visited her a few days before the wedding and Eladio found out about it.  Art came to beg her forgiveness and ask her to call off the wedding.  Art remembers that they merely kissed, but she didn't "give it up" that day.  Art asks Julia why she didn't forgive him.  Why didn't she call off the wedding?  Does he really have to ask?  Duh!  She reminds him that she was pissed because he impregnated another woman while they were engaged.  Julia admits that she was still angry with him and only married Eladio to hurt him the way that her had hurt her. Julia tells Art that she takes Eladio's abuse for Dave's sake.  She wants him to have a relationship with his father.  Julia ask Art to forgive her for not forgiving him.  Living with Eladio has been a b*tch.  Eladio won't take the test because he doesn't want to be a joke...a cuckhold.  The results will change Dave's life.
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Antes muerta que Lichita #55 Wednesday 12/10/15

Well, let us just pick up where we left off at the bachelor/bachelorette party where Nestor's "wife" turned out to be part of the entertainment: the stripper. Néstor grabs her by the hand to talk to her in private and it turns out that she is Delia the same girl he hired to play his wife so that his coworkers at Icónika would stop teasing him about being gay. Néstor is mortified that after playing his wife,  Delia would show up as the stripper. As far as she is concerned business is business. She offers to do a "private dance"for him and charge him on the side. That sounds good to him but what will he do afterwards?

At the mansion, Rafael goes to visit Dafne in her room. She is concerned about him taking heart medication. Is he that ill?  He tells her that he needs to take his meds; if not he could end up having a heart attack. She should not worry because that is not going to happen. Dafne examines his pill box which was a gift from his father (her grandfather). He is interested in what she is doing so late on her computer. She is doing research on violence in schools. Just at that moment Beatriz comes in and Rafael informs her that they are talking about bullying. Beatriz gets all weird, like she does, anytime that Dafne might need her help or protection. Dafne puts the pill box back on the desk.
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Yo No Creo En Los Hombres #104, Wed. 12/9/15: Unexpected Divorces, Separations and Marriage Proposals


The Old: Max tells Leo that his irrational, enraged reaction proves they were all right in deciding not to tell him the truth. MD learns from Nayeli and Corina that no one in the prison will accept her money to buy necessities, on orders of La Abuela. MD goes off to confront her. Josefa tells Ursula that now that they are part of the Mothers Who Have Dead Daughters Club, they should totally be BFFs and partners in crime. In exchange for Ursula’s help finding out what really happened to Marta in jail, Josefa will make sure MD rots in jail and Ursula gets her kid.

The New:
Josefa tells Ursula that her daughter’s death involved a scandal with Claudio and the woman who’s the current prison warden of MD’s prison. If Ursula digs up the dirt on the Warden and the events around Marta’s death, then they could put pressure on her to keep MD locked up, forever! Josefa sweetens the deal by offering to testify against MD and to get Honoria to do it too.
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Wednesday, December 09, 2015

Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse #74 Tuesday 12/8/15 (Mex 103)

Recap by sneaky two shoes:

Gia makes her terrible suggestion to Gael

Sergio tries to interest his son in internet hos – ‘you gotta have a little fun before you jump off the marriage cliff w/o a parachute’ And offers some terrible advice of his own – ‘you have to erase her (Fi) from your mind’

Elo and Fi and the phone. Elo isn’t so sure, wants proof – ‘are you sure this isn’t to stop Pietro from marrying Aitana?’ Takes the non-functioning phone and tells Fi to stay out of it, she (Elo) will investigate. Fi slumps and agrees, but gives it one more try – ‘if it turns on you gotta read the txts, its very important’ then slouches out.
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Antes Muerta Que Lichita #54 Tuesday 12/8/15: A romantic ambush! Oh, and Nestor's wife is a stripper

Gumbo in his wheelchair comes to tell Lichita how much Beto loves her. He wants to stop her and Beto from making a huge mistake that will mess with everyone's live. His pretend disability is hilarious.  Lichita notices "ah, your motor skills have improved since last time I saw you," reminding him to act more disabled, going into pretend convulsions and slapping himself. Alicia insists on accompanying back to home. She pushes his wheelchair to the disabled taxi. He gives her some last advice from his wheelchair - this marriage would be mass suicide, and it would suck for everyone!

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Yo No Creo En Los Hombres #103 Tuesday 12/8/15: Let’s Make a Deal III

  • Claudio tells his judge buddy to make sure Maria Dolores’s trial is pushed off into the far distant future—as long as legally possible. (Viewerville can only assume he’s still being manipulated by Grrrsula to protect his professional and social reputation. Clod really needs to just hang it up, just stop digging himself into a deeper and deeper hole.)
  • We learn from the Young Prisoner #3 that woman wait up to years before getting their day in court.
  • Maria Dolores gets out of the infirmary and tells her friends that La Abuela tried giving her medicine but she didn’t take it. She learns that La Abuela is in jail for cutting off the nose of her grandson. Yeppers. She’s BSC. MD beware!
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Tuesday, December 08, 2015

Pasión y Poder #24 Martes 12/8/15




Chapter 24: Paterfamilias

One thing about people with this kind of money and influence that always gets me is the degree to which they retreat into the past. Thus women often put up with infidelity in their husbands, some even endure horrific abuse to some of these megalomaniacs all in the name of status or security. Some of the men have such delusions of grandeur that they fancy themselves as paterfamilias, who were a law unto themselves if they chose to be. They could decree or prevent their children's marriages and divorce. For a while they even could decree their deaths although this was said to have been rare in ancient times.
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Antes muerta que Lichita #53 Monday 12/7/15: Two weddings, two wheelchairs

There was actually a lot of rehash last night and I'm skipping it.

Alicia goes to the orphanage to take Mateo a present. They won't let her see him, but they will let her talk to the social worker, Venus. Venus sees her from afar and ducks out - later telling Roberto that Alicia would have recognized her and a whole scandal would have broken out. She reminds him he promised to come clean to everybody every soon and says Mateo's been much more volatile since he started having memories of his mother.

Mateo loves Alicia's present and is delighted she remembered him.

Luckily for Roberto, Marta loses it completely in the courtroom, screaming and saying that Mateo is her Angelito and should be with her. Roberto kindly says the trial should be postponed till she feels better. Turns out this is the third anniversary of her Angelito's death from cancer. Sobbing, she's folded into the car by her sweet but ineffectual husband. She sees Beto talking to his lawyer and bolts to run across the road and almost get run over but is saved by Beto. She starts confusing Beto with God and says, "I begged you to take me instead of him." Shiver.

Roberto and Alicia continue to sulk about their respective upcoming weddings, which due to clerical error are going to happen at the same church on the same day.

The API guys are pleased with Alex and say he's ahead in the voting and his wedding will push him over the top and they wish him "a marriage as good as your parents' is." Eye roll.

There is a big dinner at the mansion. Roberto tries to beg off, Luciana says, "I pretend like the others but I'm worried, I never see you." He shows up after all, with a ring, she makes him get down on his knee, he looks like he's really making an effort to think this could work out. Luciana shows it to everybody. Alicia: "It's almost as lovely as the one you stole from the Duke." Luciana crows about her dress, which is nicer than Angeline Jolie's. Bea says she and Elsa will go with Alicia next day to get her a dress.

Magos is pushing Ximena down the sidewalk in her wheelchair when the gangster supplier appears, offers more merchandise to sell, and gratuitously makes a point of telling Ximena "your mother is a pirate." Magos says she's out of the game. "Your loss," he says and leaves. Magos lies, saying, "he's a liar," but Ximena says: "You think I know nothing? I know your friend Gerry got fired for selling pirated goods and now it turns out it was your fault and he took the fall for you." She chants "I have a mother who's a pirate" all the way home.

The cafe is doing well financially. Elsa and Nacho think Magos will help them more once Ximena recuperates, but Magos says she was thinking of studying something, Alicia had offered to pay. Nacho thinks she'll take the money and skip the studying.

The first commercial for Oki Oki is enthusiastically approved by the client. Alicia and Roberto have their usual fight about who is doing what por interes - to advance careers etc.

After being kissy with Sandra at the office, Augusto goes to some hotel and has sex with Chuchette, who notices the lipstick on his collar and knows he didn't get it at home, but she doesn't care much. She seems to be spying for him a bit and says that Roberto had been pretending to be in love with Alicia. This interests him for some Machiavellian reason.

Bachelor and bachelorette parties are being organized. There will be dirty games.

Rafael tells Valeria they have a pretty serious offer for the house, they'll pack up and move to San Miguel. Don Augusto has his henchman call the Buenos Aires real estate agent, he wants to buy Rafael's mansion.

Lastly, after yet another shouting convo with Beto moaning about how he's giving up the love of his life, Gumaro later takes off in his wheelchair to visit Nacho and Elsa at their cafe. To be continued!

Tonight: poor Ez will get a lot of bridal shop to recap I think.

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Pasión y Poder #23 Monday 20151207 Arturo Gives Erick and Nina the Finger

Something is wrong with Blogger.  It keeps saying that I logged out and shutting down on me.  I can't make this better.  Sorry.

Telenovela Dictionary: 

angry forefinger:  the physical stance in which Arturo Montenegro arranges his body once he has become enraged by the action or words of the idiots in his personal and professional life.  The position consists of Arturo Montenegro entering an moron's personal space, and slightly crouching down while jabbing a extended index finger in an upward motion towards the his or her chin.  At this stage he is normally screaming and pulling out his hair.  This should not be confused with the "I'm about to explode fist".

I'm about to explode fist:  the physical stance in which Arturo Montenegro arranges his body right before he becomes enraged by the action or words of the idiots in his personal and professional life.  The position consists of Arturo Montenegro entering an idiot's personal space, slightly crouching down and lifting a fist with a bent index finger motioning towards the idiot.  While the bent index finger is not yet extended, it is positioned higher that the other fingers.  It is a warning sign to all idiots before he crosses over into the angry forefinger (see above) stage.   In this stage he is still may be attempting to reason with the said idiot, but is beginning to realize that you can't reason with a fool.  Please note, that because they are imbeciles, most of the people in his professional and personal life do not take heed to the warning signs and continue to provoke him into the angry forefinger (see above) stage. 
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Monday, December 07, 2015

Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse #73 Monday, 12-7-15 (Mex 102) In Which Fiorella Finds a Knife Protruding from the Angeles Family Back

Ciao, Patio Peeps!  Are y'all all refreshed from a day away from our dysfunctional bunch of ego-maniacs, vultures, swindlers and sadistic seniors intent on sucking the joy out of young lovers' lives?  Well, let's catch up with the madness in Dos Rios, picking up where we left off.  Pardon the choppiness, I'm going to try to go scene by scene.

Pedro and Gianluca's yelling goes to blows right inside La Dolce Vita:  Pedro is attacking Gianluca for his part in deceiving the poor, dying Vittorio and Luca accuses Pedro of being a typical, cynical rich dude and trying to make Fiorella his personal plaything.  Domingo breaks up the fight and Pedro leaves in a huff.

Pedro arrives at ACorp just after Benigno has signed the papers which form the new fused company headed up by the Ass.  Benigno asks for a list of ACorps customers so as to insure there is no conflict of interest between the two client bases.  Pedro exchanges sharp words with Assvaldo, then leaves with Aitana trailing him.  Benigno and his wife discuss the still lost cell phone.  The whole group toasts the merger.

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Yo No Creo en los Hombres #102 Lunes 12/7/15


Chapter 102: Crocodile Tears

Maleny sat in the chair at the desk. She did not look at her mother, her brother, or the two accomplices in the room.
I don't blame you. Now I take in my own hands the only thing I'm grateful you gave me. My life.”
She then raised the pistol to her temple and fired. She fell to the floor, overturning the chair.
Úrsula's jaw dropped and she cried out. Danny-Boy began to cry. Jacinto froze. His eyes bugged out. Arango closed his eyes in pain.
You didn't do this. It was Daniel!” Úrsula cried. “It was Daniel.”
Daniel ran out. Isidro entered the room and stopped dead.
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TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Bajo el Mismo Cielo and Fatmagul: Week of December 7, 2015

Well, thanks to Juanita, last week saw a successful launch for the new team here at Telemundo y Más, full of great recaps & comments Now it's my turn and I'm already grateful for the enthusiastic support you all have shown us. So here's the new page for the week starting out on Pearl Harbor Day.

We continue with Celia, Bajo el Mismo Cielo, Señora Acero (still in últimas semanas), and Fatmagul, which is an Azteca (I think?) show that Vivi kindly synopsed for us recently.  As always, we encourage you to join the conversation. Since discussion of all these novelas takes place on the same page, please remember to put the name of the novela you're discussing at the top of your post, so people can easily find commentary about the ones they're watching.

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La Vecina Highlights and Discussion #118-122* Dec. 7-11

*This can be corrected if it is incorrect. With the events in San Bernadino last week, there was an episode missing.

Mariana is the best!

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¿Qué nos cuenta, Caray, Caray!? (December 7, 2015)

Hola Carayites!

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Friday, December 04, 2015

Muchacha Italiana Viene A Casarse #72 Thu 12/3/15 (Mex 101) The things we do for love

In the midst of the refrito, a detail catches my ear…Gael says that none of the Angeles can get thrown out of the house until Eloisa's will is completed.  Funny how they keep making up new rules for why they're all stuck living together.

Fi's latest argument with Gianluca ends with a demand that he never kiss her again.  Boo!

Ramiro gets all dressed up and goes to La Dolce Vita to check out Diana…and he makes it clear to Domingo that he is, indeed, checking out Diana (busy flirting with Vitto).  Vitto even wanders over, giving Ramiro the chance to say that the meal is excellent, and oh by the way, that woman over there is his neighbor who he has the hots for.  She doesn't know they're neighbors but he watches her all the time…with her son.  Well, Vitto is convinced Beto is her nephew, so that gets Ramiro nowhere.  He breaks it to Ramiro that Diana's spoken for…ohh, not by him!  He's an honorable lech…er, leech…er, man who's about to get married.  Fake-sad Ramiro asks for the check.

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