Tune in to the finale of AMOR BRAVIO (Valiant Love), a love story about a girl named Camila who loses her fiancé and takes refuge working on her uncle’s cattle farm. There she meets Daniel, an idealistic Chilean man who was unjustly imprisoned and is seeking to clear his name. To find true love they’ll each be forced to face their fears, and their past. Don’t miss the conclusion of this grand story on Friday at 10 p.m. ET on Univision. |
| ABISMO DE PASION is nominated for 18 awards including Best Telenovela |
For the entire primetime ratings week (January 21-27, 2013), Univision ranked #2 among Adults 18-34, out-delivering ABC, NBC, and CBS. Also, for the third consecutive Friday, the network ranked #1 on Friday among Adults 18-34 and Adults 18-49.
FIRST THOUGHTS ON THREE PREMIERES UN REFUGIO PARA EL AMOR AMORES VERDADEROS Univision’s run of ABISMO DE PASIÓN concludes with a two-hour finale this Monday at 8 p.m. ET. I have not followed ABISMO DE PASIÓN with anywhere near the regularity necessary to render any meaningful comments on the novela; fond memories of the prior version of this story produced in 1996, CAÑAVERAL DE PASIONES, probably prejudiced me against ABISMO a bit from the start, as well as, in my opinion, a few questionable casting choices. When I have tuned into the novela, I encounter just enough annoyances to needle me away from staying with it, like the poor costuming of the heroine, the gloomy, dingy cinematography. AMOR BRAVÍO CORAZONES BLINDADOS
Andrés Sandoval (TRES MILAGROS; ROSARIO TIJERAS) plays Raúl Ávila, a young man who becomes a police officer after his father is murdered. He falls in love with a fellow officer named Diana Ochoa (Majida Issa), but she is resistant to the new romance because she is unsure of the fate of the father of her child, who was kidnapped by guerillas and has been missing for six years. UN REFUGIO PARA EL AMOR (weeknights at 7 p.m. ET on Univision) is heading into its final weeks and presumably the final story arcs are beginning to be set up. The action moved forward five months to the birth of Luciana’s son, milked for all its dramatic worth with a difficult, suspenseful delivery with mother and baby in precarious states before coming through healthy, the joyous celebration of the birth with Luciana’s family and friends, all counterbalanced by Rosalena (Laura Flores) and Gala (Jessica Coch) conspiring against the newborn. Portents were plentiful with the baby’s father (Gabriel Soto) and grandfather (David Ostrosky) away on a business trip to China and the arrival of Luciana’s mother delayed by inclement weather.EL CAPO 2AMOR BRAVÍO
The multi-talented Cristián de la Fuente was born in Santiago, Chile. He served in the Chilean Air Force reserve prior to attending the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he pursued a degree in civil engineering. As an actor early in his career, de la Fuente appeared in several telenovelas including ECLIPSE EL AMOR ESTA DE MODA and ECLIPSE DE LA LUNA. He also had a job hosting Chile’s top-rated variety series, VENGA CONMIGO. Later, he appeared in primetime U.S. soaps UGLY BETTY, PRIVATE PRACTICE and BROTHERS & SISTERS.
On AMOR BRAVÍO (weeknights at 10 p.m. ET on Univision), poor sap Alonso (Flavio Medina) saw his problems go from bad to worse this week. Unable to consummate his marriage with Camila (Silvia Navarro) due to impotence, Alonso decided to try out some Viagra with a prostitute in a hotel room only to suffer a heart attack. Needless to say, he lands in the hospital and all the sordid details are revealed to half the cast, including Camila.
Camila’s eyes had already latched onto Daniel (Cristián de la Fuente) in a telenovela cliché – the spying on a swimmer in a natural body of water, typically, as in this case, a pond. Navarro played the scene with out-and-out lust, completely appropriate given what her character’s going through and it’s refreshing to see a woman’s carnal desires at the forefront of a story. After witnessing Daniel’s dip, Camila immediately rushed to dish about the spectacle with her best friend.AMOR BRAVÍO The protagonists of AMOR BRAVÍO (weeknights at 10 p.m. ET on Univision) finally met in Thursday’s episode, a coincidental encounter in a café. It was fairly typical of these types of scenes: Camila (Silvia Navarro) prepares to take a seat at a table when Daniel (Cristián de la Fuente) reveals he was already sitting there, his gear on one of the chairs. As Camila excuses herself she drops her belongings, in this case sunflowers, onto the floor, they both reach down to retrieve them, their eyes meet, the moment is held. It’s a scene variations of which must have played in hundreds of telenovelas.The premiere week of AMOR BRAVÍO (weeknights at 10 p.m. ET on Univision) seemed to follow the current trend in telenovelas of starting with a bang – piling on drama early in an attempt to hook the audience – a trend I’m not particularly keen on, viewing telenovelas more as a marathon than a sprint. Three episodes into AMOR BRAVÍO, the novela’s heroine, Camila (Silvia Navarro), has already been married twice and suffered the tragic loss of two loved ones, but it is difficult to connect with the drama as the characters have barely been introduced before they are biting the dust – it’s impossible for the audience to join in the mourning for characters they don’t really know.