Previously on LHDP: Pepa and Silvia were broken up, and Pepa spent a lot of time flirting with guys for no apparent reason. This resulted in Curtis developing a crush on her and at the end of the last season, and he got shot in the chest when he tried to impress Pepa. When they were in the ambulance Pepa told Curtis she loved him, thinking he was going to die. He didn’t. What did happen was Pepa and Silvia kissed, hugged and hopefully will be back together soon.
These episodes of Los Hombres de Paco are really quite long, especially if you consider the fact that Pepa and Sylvia only have very little (relevant) screen time, and that I don’t really speak Spanish. However, last week’s episode was more than worth sitting through for the one hot Pepsi scene, that unfortunately turned into something pretty messed up way too soon.
Before we get to that scene, we can already see Pepa acting all butch. Aitor (yes, that’s the guy that Pepa slept with when she and Silvia broke up) humiliates Sara in front of everyone, because he’s in love with her and he’s trying to make her hate him, since she’s married and it would make things less complicated and painful. Pepa, however, doesn’t really appreciate his logic, and becomes so angry with him she starts hitting him and then she shoves his face into the toilet.


Aitor tries to make Pepa and Sylvia understand, asking them what they would do. Could they stand being in love with someone and spending all your time with them, yet knowing that they could never be truly yours, because they belong to someone else? Pepa and Sylvia do not know what to say to that. I do. Stay away from people who are already in a relationship! It will save you so much trouble and heartache.
Now we come to a scene that teaches us two very important things: 1. There’s nothing wrong with a little role-playing; and 2. Don’t lead someone on, especially when you were just engaged in number 1.

Silvia is walking to her car. She’s on her cell phone and totally oblivious to what is about to take place. Pepa comes up behind her and pushes her against the car saying, “Freeze! You’re under arrest. Hands on the car. I’m going to search you. So don’t move…”
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Thanks for the recap, Natazzz!
And I feel marginally better about you having to take on the task since last week's ep can't have been quite such an, uh, sacrifice to watch.
But we're back to my primary probably with LHDP: The do girl-on-girl exceptionally well, but always, always ALWAYS use the integration of a male figure. Always.
Whether it's Paco and Don Lorenzo spying on their first love scene (peephole, no less), Lorenzo walking in on their vacation-home retreat, Curtis behind the kiss last ep, and now again, Curtis in the middle in this ep.
I am beginning to think that it is a conscious visual strategy of getting away with more f/f by inserting a male POV that leaves the straight male demographic feeling included.
As a lesbian viewer, the staging around a male gaze is annoying, but the problem is that apart from the constant insertion of a middle man (or two), they get it so, so right.
Argh!
As for being interrupted by bras, well, that depends on the bra. ;-)
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Still I do feel that the males watching/interrupting Pepa and Silvia are always portrayed as unattractive, a bit thick headed and far less sexually dynamic than Pepa. Male viewers in Spain must possess a lot of self-irony or be completely stupid to enjoy this.
Anyone identifying with Curtis should have a decent sense of humor, I concur.
I would wager that the male gaze is established by the simple inclusion of a male figure, and in case of both Curtis and Don Lorenzo we have representatives of dominant white straight middle class masculinity that by definition stands outside more feminine-applied beauty-norms (Aitor, Montoya) or marginalized masculinities like Povedilla's.
I wouldn't say it is about a particular look or an individual identification with a character. Rather it is about the general sensation to always have the f/f sequences anchored to a male figure (with the exception of the airport hanger sequence, perhaps. Must be why that one remains my favorite).
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Bradamante, I agree it is really annoying how guys always have to be involved in the Pepsi storyline in one way or another.
Still, I don't mind so much them being in the scenes...interupting or whatever, I just have a problem with the interaction. There really was no reason at all for Pepa and Curtis to kiss.
Hot scenes like this one do make up for a lot...
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Hot scene. Reminds me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSc4EeYju8g
I'm no fan of Gisele, but I'd search Jennifer Esposito anytime :D
thank you so muuucchh.. i've been waiting for ages to see them like that again hehehe and definitely cannot wait for next episode.. huhuhu both actresses are hoootttt.. luuvv it..
Haha awesome recap.
