Pensando En Parientes

  English subtitles https://youtu.be/T7TjDbyjgVU Spanish https://youtu.be/bB94nQeRjbI   www.NBC.com app for complete Ep. For complete capitulos go to  www.Telemundo.com    All entire episodes of PARIENTES A LA FUERZA can be seen  On Demand with  www.NBC.com  app .    Also available on streaming services such as  Spectrum .   Of course you know "Cruz" means "Cross".   George Cruz's "concrete bunker" mansion seems to me shaped like an X (or perhaps separate segments that form an X shape.   Paz--perpetual texter-- says  "XOXO" (hugs & kisses), which Spanish subtitle translates as "adios" when her mom's friends Sophie & Shar Pei leave Robert's emptied mansion.  Hashtag # --to eventually  play part in story--looks to me like two superimposed x's.  .  Juancho asks George if he knows movie stars Antony Banderas & Selma Hayek; writer replies that their paths have "cruzado"; I guess in English, he'd run

  English subtitles https://youtu.be/sGTiGzfI9XQ Spanish subtitles https://youtu.be/mhLM_9P5MD0 For complete capitulos go to  www.Telemundo.com    All entire episodes of PARIENTES A LA FUERZA can be seen  On Demand with  www.NBC.com  app .    Also available on streaming services such as  Spectrum .   To show ideas about use of symbols etc. in telenovelas aren't as farfetched as may seem to anyone who never thought about it before, I do cite a few incidents from other novelas starring Guy-- LA MENTIRA , 1994  CAFE CON   AROMA DE MUJER  &  VIDAS CRUZADAS .  To me these are more "preview of coming attractions" than spoilers--I only wish these classics were as easily available to watch as  PARIENTES A LA FUERZA .  Maybe, someday they will be (and perhaps my comments intended to interest & create larger audience may help this to happen...) --------------------------------------------- DUALITY  often appears in  PARIENTES A LA FUERZA .  Obvious examples include twins To

Just noticed 3 Oct. 2022 that old You Tube links may not work.  Not sure if English subtitles can be accessed for all episodes by changing settings--another good reason to learn Spanish!    https://youtu.be/Ewlwu8tkXNc   May update links on blog later. English subtitles  https://youtu.be/Pvk-j4KLhEQ   (only first part of episode)  Spanish subtitles   https://youtu.be/zmGZR-KTN6c   For complete capitulos go to  www.Telemundo.com    All entire episodes of PARIENTES A LA FUERZA can be seen  On Demand with  www.NBC.com  app .    Also available on streaming services such as  Spectrum .   If you absolutely want to watch PALF for first time without slightest chance of  anything approaching a "spoiler",  wait to read below.  (Book discussion group member once got angry with me for mentioning something I thought obvious from cover of sequel to THE ROSIE PROJECT showing bicycle built for two  followed by stork carrying bundle--I mean, couldn't you tell what that indicates will happ

    I've been re-watching  PARIENTES A LA FUERZA  from the beginning.   In   Ep. 1 noticed Jurado home in San Miguel de Allende is red, white & green--colors of Mexican flag--also  colors of traditional Christmas decorations.    In recent episodes noticed colors "red, white & BLUE" close together,  colors of "the stars and stripes", flag of USA  (on wall of bedroom shared by Jurado women in Tenoch's home).  In Ep. 3, Juancho calls gray Cruz mansion the American Dream, but true American dream is not to accumulate things (like Lety & Juancho) but freedom to become one's best self, help each other, make "More Perfect Union" by becoming real family together.   In  Ep. 3 " Familia" , George tells Paz:    Necesidades son respirar.  Necesidad es comer, es ir al bano, tambien dormir.  Pero lo que   estan haciendo, perdoname.  Ustedes gastan mas dinero en un mes que una familia entero en un ano.    "Breathing is a necessity. 

 

  Do you know the way to San Miguel? I fell in love with charming town in Mexico, San Miguel de Allende, when I read 1956 novel  SENORITA OKAY .  Wish I could have gone at that time, before well-off ex-patriots made it more expensive to live there.    Those who can't travel to picturesque pueblo (roadblocks nowadays are not limited to one's wallet), can make virtual visit, thanks to  PARIENTES A LA  FUERZA   (Family by Force) , a  very entertaining new TV series set mostly in Los Angeles  on Telemundo & On Demand NBC app, with English subtitles on you tube  https://youtu.be/Pvk-j4KLhEQ?list=PLuS3qy90fem94yxmweO9vGgmejJEuiHlU  (tho dialogue is often bilingual--lead actor of PALF is actually fluently tri-lingual, having grown up all over the Americas) .   #LatinosAreOnTvToo Author of  SENORITA OKAY  Ann Kilborn Cole (pen name Nancy Hartwell) has cameo as "middle aged woman writer...who bangs a typewriter all day"  (Cole was around 65 then)  in building where novel&#