YouTube Fan Channels: One Man’s Piracy Is Another Fan’s PR

As I have been promoting in my blog, the telenovela, Las Aparicio, premiered Tuesday in its entirety on Telemundo.com.  Well, not in its entirety, but that is another blog.   I arrived home Tuesday evening with anticipated intent to watch the complete storylines of the Aparicio women of which I had become so fond.   Instead, [...]

Episode 7 – “The ‘Schmootz on” Natassja Ybarra

Las Aparicio fans will be happy to know that writer, Natassja Ybarra, is very forthcoming about the endgame of the Mariana/Julia story of the very popular telenovela.  Will there be a wedding?  Yes.  Are the gay nuptials the last we will see of the couple?  Not at all.  Marriage maybe be the declared victory of [...]

Episode 6 – The “Schmootz on” Eréndira Ibarra

Last week I was lucky enough to engage in conversation with the lovely Eréndira Ibarra who portrays Mariana, half of the smoldering same-sex super-couple of Julia and Mariana on the telenovela, Las Aparicio.  Take a look: embedded by Embedded Video As you will hear, Erendira is extremely gracious to this uni-lingual, English-only, American blogger.  We [...]

What You Should Be Watching: Las Aparicio

I have to preface this review with a muchas gracias to one of my international readers who turned me on to the Mexican telenovela, Las Aparicio.  The sexy soap opera chronicles the lives and loves of three generations of extremely strong, successful, and at times flawed, women who share a family tradition of all giving [...]