Since I wrote last, I've been keeping up with Amores Verdaderos the best I can. With my family's activities, I don't always get to watch every night. Even with my spotty watching, I know things are heating up quickly. Since I last wrote, we learned that Nikki and Roy are getting divorced, which strange given that they got married about two weeks ago. Nikki's great uncle or grandfather, Tatito, doesn't want to permit Nikki's divorce because "we are from a family that has no divorce." However, Nikki drops a bombshell (complete with sound effect) and shares that her own father is having a child with "that minx." I don't know who that minx is, unfortunately, because the episode ended.
Before each commercial break, the show slide is shown and the viewers see about 10 seconds of two characters holding each other or something equally dramatic. The song "No Me Compares" (literally "Do Not Compare Me," more figuratively this would describe how he's not as good as her and comes from a different background) by Alejandro Sanz plays over these images. Just by watching the video, you can get the idea of how overdramatic this show is.
I do almost like watching the commercials more than the show. It's very interesting to see how products are advertised on this channel versus the usual things I watch. For example, on the DishLatino commercial, a big emphasis is made on how DishLatino allows children to watch programs in Spanish rather than English. I never thought about how parents feel about the growing influence of English on their children, so it was insightful to see how this could be used as a marketing tactic to encourage parents to switch cable providers. It's another important consideration for parents raising children in a culture where the language at home is not the main language spoken outside and shows valuable insight into the increasing influence of language and media.