Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Antes muerta que Lichita #58 Monday 12/14/15: having pneumonia is better than having a honeymoon.

One of the great things about this show is that no matter what happens to Lichita, she is not destroyed. She tolerates Sandra yelling at her and Augusto YELLING at her. She tries standing up for herself but she's outweighed, especially when he reveals that he's known along it was she kissing Beto in Luciana's cellphone video.

Roberto is very ill in the honeymoon suite. Luciana urges him to tell his secrets but as he tries he gets sicker and hoarser and can't really get anything out. Even though he told her Mateo was his son, and that he himself was an orphan, she thinks he's hallucinating and discounts it all.
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Pasión y Poder #28 Monday 20151214 Challenge Accepted and Maybe Completed. Francisco Might Owe Dave Some Money!

GOMEZ LUNA


Casa de Gomez

Luna Foyer 

Julia has just told her father to shut the fudge up!  She falls to her knees and begs him to help her and believe her.  She is not now boinking Artie, nor did she boink him a few days before her wedding day.  Humberto's not buyin' it.  He has no reason to believe that Julia is not a two-timing tramp.  She's bought all these problems on herself.  Eladio is a great man; he's been like a son to Humberto.  He feeds Humberto and makes sure that his Depends are changed frequently by the nurse.  Julia tells her dad that she wants Art to take a David'sNotArt's kid test, that's all.  Living with Eladio for all these years has been a big b*tch because he doesn't believe that David is his.  Humberto tells Julia that information will be very embarrassing for Eladio if it every gets out.  Eladio right and Julia is wrong. The end.  Julia must obey her husband.  They are interrupted by Gaby, who could pass as the adult version of the Wednesday Adams character if need be.  Humberto immediately notices Gaby's lack of clothing and loses his laser focus on Julia.  He can't believe that Julia can't afford to buy his grandchild modest clothing that will cover her a$$.  In his opinion, Gaby is rebellious, like Julia.  Gaby's dressed like a tramp.  He can't look at her, so he's going to bed. 
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Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse #78 Monday 12-14-15 (Mex 108) A Time for Us!

Ciao, Muchacha Patio Peeps!  Let's find out what has happened since Pedro and Fiorella escaped from the scene of the two bodas of doom!  Gianna bids Fiorella and Pedro a warm adieu while Vittorio stalks out of the church, his family and guests surrounding him.  Now it's his turn to shout Fiorella's name.  Gianna comes around the corner and feigns surprise as she asks Vitto what has happened and then exclaims that she saw Fiorella and Gianluca running "that a way" and she points in the opposite direction of their escape.  The guests head off in that direction while Vitto calls her name over and over while Diana grins in the background.

Eloisa, Sergio, Julieta and Freddie have arrived back at El Rancho.  Sergio helps her in, her steps are heavy and she regrets having left the church:  Pedro could come back there.  Sergio thinks Pedro wouldn't return to the church as the paparazi were arriving and they couldn't just hang around looking like fools.  Not them, quips Freddie, but Aitana sure could.  Freddie is clearly amusing herself.  Sergio, Julieta and Eloisa ask her to chill.  Dante announces that there is no trace of Pedro at the hospital or in the police station.  Julieta thinks he ran away with Fiorella, Sergio says it's impossible as she was marrying Vittorio at the time.

Aitana is a blur of agitation and frustration as she runs frantically around Pedro's room rifling through his bureau drawers, under his bed, everywhere looking for clues of what could have happened.  Her parents, Celeste and Benigno, are there.  Celeste rejects the running away with Italian girl theory and tries to keep Aitana grounded with the practical matter of changing out of the wedding gown.  Aitana thinks her dad's failed wedding dress shredding scheme has brought her this bad luck!  Benigno thinks something bad has happened to Pedro and sites his missing motorcycle as evidence:  those things are dangerous!

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Monday, December 14, 2015

Yo No Creo en los Hombres #107 Lunes 12/14/15

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Chapter 107: Hell is Other People

Danny-Boy paced by the fountain, shaking in drug withdrawal. Jenny approached silently and precisely, eyes trained on the scuzzy worm. He finally turned around and looked at her. “Where are my pills?” he asked.
I don't know.”
Don't say things like that. If you don't have my pills, what do you want?”
You don't recognize me, do you?” she asked. “I'm Jenny. A friend of Julian's. And I'm going to give you something better than your pills.”
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TELEMUNDO Y MÁS: Celia, Bajo el Mismo Cielo, Señora Acero, and Fatmagul: Week of December 14, 2015

OK, Telemundo fans.  Here's this week's page for discussion of Celia, Bajo el Mismo Cielo, Señora Acero, and Fatmagul.  Both Señora Acero and Bajo el Mismo Cielo are now in últimas semanas. There are published reports that Señora will end on January 11.  Replacing it on Tuesday, January 12, will be a new telenovela, La querida del Centauro.  More about that as the time draws closer.  Telemundo has started to post quick peeks as well for another new novela, Eva, la Trailera.  It's possible that this may replace Bajo. In the meantime, everyone is encouraged to join in the discussion of the current offerings.  Please remember to put the name of the telenovela you're discussing at the top of your post so people can easily find commentary about the shows they're watching.  Muchas gracias.

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La Vecina Highlights and Discussion #123-127 Dec. 14-18

Here's the post for the week.

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¿Qué nos cuenta, Caray, Caray!? (December 14, 2015)

Hola Carayites!

In this week's edition:



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Sunday, December 13, 2015

Yo No Creo En Los Hombres Cap 106, Fri 12/11/2015: Maria Dolores Is Still the Martyr, Isela Does Her Doe-Eyed Shtick, Claudio Won’t Take Responsibility for His Foolishness, and Clara and Leo Learn the Facts of Life


RECAP BY JDESDENYC.  Scenes combined as usual.

Lo Pasado:
Orlando comes by the Morales’ to let Isela know her apartment is ready for her to move into. Clara growls and cries as Isela seems to get away with being shady even as she lost Leo by not revealing Ise’s shadiness.

La Abuela continues to show she is the big boss in the jail as she passes by prisoners asking her for favors—she shoos them off with a “Not now”—and she lets the warden know she knows she’s the one who let Daniel come in the prison to visit Maria Dolores.  The warden lets her know that they no longer have to give MD any “special treatment” because Claudio Bustamante ordered MD to rot while awaiting trial. The warden and La Abuela both smile at this.

Lo Nuevo:

Not in My Name
Claudio comes by Isela’s apartment and promises Isela he’ll be there for her child.  Isela balks, saying she can parent by herself, but Claudio says that their child is a shared responsibility.  Ise asks if that means Claudio will give the child his last name, legally recognizing him or her as his own.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Pasión y Poder Episode #27 Friday, December 11th 2015 Daddy's Home


I may look sweet and fragile, but there's a rat bastard inside of me.

We begin with a repeat of stuff we already saw last night. FF --> Ok, now we've made it to the new stuff. Eladio arrives home. He's boiling mad. He's just found out that his wife has been seeing her ex finance and his worst enemy. That's right.. she's been seeing Artie Montenegro. Eladio manhandles her and yells at her. She spits out the truth- she tells Eladio that she saw Artie out of desperation, because Eladio is always going on and on about David not being his spawn. She admits that she  asked Artie for a DNA test so she could shut him (Eladio) up once and for all. Eladio is very impactado- he's all QUE?! 

At the Montenegro dinner table, Daniela is enjoying some quesadillas (minus the salsa, of course). Meanwhile, mom and pop are setting a bad example by arguing at the table. Nina doesn't think Artie should care about the consequences of his business deals unless if they affect the family directly. If they affect others- then Artie should care less (is how Nina sees it). Artie calls her out on her self centeredness and not caring about others- not even her own kids. Nina gets mad at him- she stands up and throws her napkin on the table for dramatic purposes. 

Back to Eladio and Julia. Eladio has Julia by the arms- he asks her how she could have done such a thing. Julia tells him that she did it because she has no doubts that David is his spawn. Eladio whines that now Artie will make fun of him on the playground. Julia tells him that Artie ain't like that. Eladio still can't believe that Julia went to ask Artie for a DNA test. Julia explains that she asked Artie for one because he (Eladio) never wanted to get one done. Also, because he (Eladio) has always been torturing her with his "David is not my spawn" remarks. Eladio tells Julia that he thought that she was smart but now he sees that she's not. Julia wonders what the hell Eladio means. 

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Muchacha Italiana Viene a Casarse #77 Friday, 12-11-15 (Mex 107) ¡Muchacha Italiana Escaparse!

Saluti, miei amici belli del Patio!  Let's dive right in to an episode we all deserve!  Pedro has a mini freak out in the ACorp board room after reading the email on Benigno's thumb drive!  Aitana and Benigno have totally deceived him!  He throws some bookshelves and chairs around but stops to answer his cell.  It's Fabio calling to apologize for not being able to attend his wedding; something has come up at home in Italy.  Pedro verifies that Fabio was part of the team that investigated the sale of ACorp stock and then they agree to meet at La Dolce Vita as what he wants to discuss is very sensitive.

Diana gets ready for Vitto's wedding.  Her Mom is surprised she's going and takes the opportunity to "I told you so" Diana.  Anibal the animal calls to threaten Diana and press her for his bail.  She counsels him to be patient:  Vitto is about to be out of town and they can rip him off then.  After she hangs up on him Anibal charges Ramiro with REALLY tailing Diana and giving her any help she needs with the heist.

Pedro looks comfy, yet determined in his jeans astride a motor cycle as he arrives at La Dolce Vita (LDV)  Ok, he looks hot.  Anyway, he makes a call to Fiorella and gets that frustrating disconnection message.  Ay!  She's got to know he's not getting married anymore!!

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Friday, December 11, 2015

Antes Muerta que Lichita #57 Friday 12/11/15 'Stop! in the name of love!' but it ain't the Supremes and this ain't Motown... Augie shows his worst side...

At the climactic moment in the wedding, three 'I do's'... one left... 
Alex is asked… do you?...
But all of a sudden, in a very entertaining twist of Diana Ross and the Supremes song… in comes running Kenny yelling ‘STOPPPPP!!!! In the name of Love!!’  Freeze frame!!... Someone pull out a shovel, everyone’s jaws are falling on the floor…
Lichita encourages Alex to listen to his heart and go with Kenny and turn his back on everything and everyone else… Alex walks closer to Augustus and Bea and tells them ‘dad, mom.. I’m sorry but I can’t get married.’ Then he walks to Kenny, holds hands with him as they walk away and everyone, especially Sandra, is dumbfounded. Augustus is angry, having an internal combustion, and Bea is having an indigestion and faulty waterworks.
Next, Lichita is the one that walks away smiling after consulting the audience on her decision to either laugh or cry… 
Everyone else who didn’t know yet is chitchatting about Alex being Gay, Sandra says ‘imagine what Augustus must be feeling’…
Priest tries to bring everyone back to the wedding and finishes declaring Luciana and Roberto man and wife. 
Kenny explains to Alex that he was pressured by the managers to get engaged. But he only loves Alex.  Alex asks ‘now what?’  Kenny suggests they move far away and start a new life.
Lichita is still walking/running down the street, with all of the press following in her heels… She jumps on a public bus and loses the press.  The press people head back to the church.
Everyone in the bus is a bit intrigued by LIchita entering wearing a wedding gown.
At the orphanage, Mateo is talking to the teacher. The teacher encourages to him to get better and wait for his dad.
Lichita at a park bench… ‘all my life I had heard ‘you propose and God acts’.  (uno propone y Dios dispone). But at this moment she wonders if it was God’s will what was happening or if fate was laughing at her expense.  And there was her life, falling apart, and she was experiencing an unending fall.  We see Lichita walk through the locations where she spends her time (the office, the coffee shop, the house, etc). she is crying.
At church, the board members are all ranting at Augustus, they ask if he ‘knew’.  He tells them he is as surprised as they are. They don’t buy that.
Bea and Augustus are walking out.  Luciana and Roberto are the only ones left in the church and Luci asks Bea if they are going to her reception.   But no response from aunty and uncle.  Luci asks Roberto to give her the ‘kiss’. But he just says dryly ‘lets go’.  As they walk out Luci talks to the press… she tells them she was aware of her cousin’s preferences… and Lichita also knew… thus she was only marrying Alex for ambition.   However, Roberto notes to her that there is no one listening to her (no press).  Then she asks again for the ‘kiss’. But He suggests they go ahead to the reception.
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Weekend Discussion: Recap Authors, What Series Was Your Biggest Challenge?


This is also a forum for recap authors to talk about how we go about what we do.

I'm going into my fifth year of writing for this blog and most of it has been fun and interesting.  My first series was La Fuerza del Destino in 2011 where I caught most of the juicy episodes about the character we called Merry Piece and I felt privileged for that.  There were a few truly great performances in that series and some wooden ones and we all take the good with the bad.

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


Today's show is brought to you by the color BLUE.

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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