Recap for episode 138, aired on Aug 17.First recap after so long... I really missed the show but it's hard to get back on the depressing train I've left. Anyway, back to lessons...
Lesson 251. Surprisingly, Anguila knows how to make Lalo see sense: get angrier than him, don't back down, until he feels guilty. First he said he wasn't going to answer Lalo's question ["Did you come here to make fun of me?"] and would pretend the stupid shit he was saying was because he was all beaten
Lalo was on a roll, so he kept talking about how Anguila could be at ease now that he was out of the picture. Anguila made the right move and started calling Lalo all kinds of names until he backed down *claps* Good job
He even got Lalito to say "Forgive me, you're right."
And he managed to give that wise advice that doesn't really help, but what else can you say? So Lalo wondered what would he do without football and Anguila said he had to learn how to live his life differently.
Uh? Show? There really was no need for you to show me Mostaza taking a shit. And yes, I know there was a word play there, and also that you thought it would be funny, but neither worked, believe me.
252. Amidst the drama, I forgot the show was so funny, especially unintentionally ;D Really, showing a laptop screen saying 'online transfers' and a world map with arrows going from New York, Cayman Islands and Switzerland to Buenos Aires is just about the most craptastic unrealistic way to portray a money transfer in the history of television
Thank you! That was Tato and his smug smile, by the way. He also simply closed the laptop, which leads us to...
Chiqui sneaking into Tato's office after he left and opening the laptop. There was a password though - thank goodness Tato's not that stupid! Even my laptop asks for a password every time I close it! Wait, I take that back. Tato
is that stupid. Because he used 'Mirta' as his password, and of course Chiqui got it right in his second try
253. Caring and protective Flaco is the best thing in this whole tragic mess. Tugging Lalito in (and I love when he calls him that) and threatening to hit Anguila in case he bothered him
Lalito told him to let it go because Anguila was right and:
"I've spent all my life blaming everyone else for the shit I've pulled and the truth is I have to take responsibility for what I am. Otherwise my life isn't worth anything."
*cues to tender moment of super tenderness*
Flaco: "Yes, it is. For me you're the most valuable in the world."
*sinister song and Lalo's
long-lost mother at the door*
Nino seems to be wandering aimlessly these days. He can't manage to flee the country because that goes against the story they're telling. They can't show him trying and failing because they've done that 2 or 3 times already, right? So they show him complaining about not being able to leave and now stalking Laura and Malena
254. Crazy plot of crazy: Lily answered the phone and found out Tato had ordered a coffin. Tato told Lily and Chiqui that Sofía asked him to take Mirta's body to Mexico, to be near her. Wait, Sofía is in Mexico?! And why would he need to order a coffin? Wouldn't the woman be in one already? Like, for months? Of course that's a cover-up for something even crazier, that won't work, because Tato is the master of lame evil schemes
255. Show? When the whole screen is a blast of blinding white and you're
not doing an angel or after-death scene [which would be incredibly tacky, so don't get any ideas], that's precisely when you've put way too much lightning or way too little light filters, okay? And combining that with a white pillow and white hospital clothes... just don't.
256. Carrying on with the craziness... why in the world would Flaco be still in the room while Lalo talks to his mother? I mean, really, anyone would have left when she came in
Instead they kept Flaco standing out of the frame until Lalo's mother looked up, thanked him and told him to get out. So we had a bonus awkward moment, with Lalo's mom wanting him gone and being on the verge of impoliteness, Flaco wanting to be acknowledged and reassured, and Lalo wanting him to go and take the awkwardness with him, but at the same time not wanting to be outright cold, which he translated into looking away while still answering Flaco in a hard tone, but also including a free "thank you". Quite some gymnastics you did there, Lalo
Not quite successful though.
I really like detective Chiqui. He's getting better at doing it for his own business too. He figured that Tato's story about the coffin was actually a cover-up for a escape plan. Obvious, I know, but he's missed a lot of obvious things in the past. Oh, and he mentioned that Sofía is in jail in Mexico.
I have to compliment the show for showing so many fluffy scenes between Marga and Chiqui when we all know she's a villain and close to be punished. It's a very nice change of how things usually are in novelas close to the end.
Mercedes told Flaco she was going to connect him with a friend of hers to do an independent analysis of his doping samples.
Super Chiqui told sidekick Anguila the story about Tato's being the one who killed his father and asked for his help
More adventures to come
257. In a given moment of every situation he faces, Lalo will get defensive and pull away. That's an unmistakable truth. So when Flaco went back to see him, he told him they had to talk and said he was going to go back to living with his mom. Flaco tried not to take that as the total rebuff it was, but Lalo wasn't going to let him.
Lalo: "I've been thinking about it and I believe the best for both of us would be to break it all off and that we don't see each other anymore."
Lalo actually looked quite sad during this, so you could see it was not a case of getting angry/scared, but a sad defensiveness that was also a bit for Flaco's sake maybe, and that he was aware Flaco would take it badly. I think it was the most mature of his pulling away scenes.
258. Did you ever wonder what the show would have to do to make me like Marga a little? Well, I have the answer for you: show her telling Chiqui she had learned to like Anguila, that she now adores him and that he's lovely, and topping it off by saying he should be their kid's godfather
Oh, the details! While Nino was stalking Malena at the library, he picked up a book. Any book, you think? Nooo, a Dalai Lama book
The police finally went to arrest Marga for old-Giselle's murder.
I'm so happy about watching the show again that it may have clouded my judgment, but I actually liked this episode a lot.