Botineras

The Botineras main cast.

So I started watching Manuel and Lalo from Botineras. I've seen 25 episodes and I love it already! And a new telenovela is just what I need right now. Right now I really need to watch storylines that already has an ending, because all the soaps I am watching are giving me angst. Right know I feel angst about Looking because I am convinced that the special episode we are going to get will end with Patrick and Richie getting back together and I don't want that! I have angst because of Hollyoaks and because Ste and John Paul is in kerfuffle with all the HIV, Sineads baby, Sineads cousin that will show up and because of John Paul snogged with Harry. I am sure we're in for a long wait until McHay will be happy. I have angst because of Robron i Emmerdale because Robert is married and Aaron is hurting. And I have a lot of angst because of Salatut Elämät where I am sure that Larias will be the end-game, but that would be a scandal if you ask me because Lalle (Lari and Kalle) are made for eachother! So because of that I do need a storyline with an end, because when it ends, even though it might not end how I want to, there is nothing to do about it because it has ended, and there is no point of angst.

Anyway, Botineras. Botineas is an Argentinian telenovela and it is a lot about football. the wod botinera seems to mean football wife or a least someone who is desperate to become a football wife. But the gay storylines central figures doesn't sem to want any football wives, because they seem to only want eachother.

Manuel and Lalo.

This is Manuel and Lalo. They play in the same football team and taakes liking of eachother, Manuel "Flaco" Riveiro (Christian Sancho) is the married star of the team and Gonzalo "Lalo" Roldán (Ezequiel Castaño) is the younger newcomer of the team. And there are sparks! Both are closetered when the storyline starts, but there are snogging already in the first episode of the youtube-playlist. And, as told, I love it! The actors have great chemistry, the storyline is quite interesting, the actors do a ggod job as well and the special scenes between them is so beautiful composed! Let's just say: Coldplay - Trouble and strings! I have really big expectations on this storyline, and it has already given me some latino fire! Love it, love it!

Stop cancelling my favourite series!

Really HBO? Are you really going to cancel the best thing you've done since Sex and the city? That is so not cool! The end was awful, lets agree about that. But I read that there will be a single special episode just to wrap it up. And according to Russel Tovey it is going to be a whole movie! Well, I have to trust you on that then. But I am still not happy! I want a whole season. And if the movie ends with Patrick getting back together with Richie I will be seriously affended as a Kevrick shipper! Just sayin.

Third season now!

Richie and Patrick.

I did not like the season final of Looking! Ok, even though I do not like Richie, I really liked the last scene between him and Patrick. It was nice. I really thought there would be some snogging between Patrick and Richie when Kevin and Patrick might have broken up. I really don't think the things that Kevin said was that bad, and even though Patrick is a drama queen I understand him. But why oh why did they give us a wonderful season with fucking against a tree, lots of snogging and cuteness, I love you's and a moving in together just to end it like that? That is really not fair to us hardcore Patrick and Kevin shippers! We do need a third season! We demand it actually!

And speaking of third seasons, we also still need a third season of In the Flesh! I won't take no for an answer! And we do need a third season of G&T, the Italian web series. Both those series ended with real cliffhangers. And I hate cliffhangers.

The hands of Jude and Connor in The Fosters.

And yesterday also this happened. Jude and Connor, aka Jonnor, in The Fosters are just so adorable! Now it seems that they are official. It was also season finale for the Fosters, but there will be a third season. Thank gods for that! Cuteness overload!

Freier Fall 2

Ok, are you kidding me! There might actually be a Freier Fall 2! Freier Fall is one of my absolute favourite movies and I have been loning for a sequal forever! Ok, not forever but since last year when I saw the first one. I really hope that we will get to see Hanno Koffler and Max Riemelt as Marc and Kay again! Please go to the official Freier Fall 2 facebook page and support the cause. It is absolutely crucial!

Telenovelas: Paulo & Miguel

There is something called telenovelas that has been intriguing me for some time now. We don't have that at all in Sweden. Right now we actually don't have any soap operas at all, and I don't think we would have any soon. Soaps are really out of date in Sweden. Boring! But the Great Britain, Germany and USA are providing me with what I need. So, what is a telenovela? It is a soap opera in miniseries format, where the number of episodes are planned and limited from start. The program format has its origin in Latin America where it's particularly popular in Brazil, Chile and Mexico among others. But we have them in Europe to. Germany had Rote Rosen, in which Alexander Becht from Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten starred. But unlike Lenny Cöster in GZSZ, his character Brian O'Reilly was straight. Also Croatia and Spain has telenovelas, and they are very popular in Portugal. I love the concept! But I hadn't had any experienes of them. But then a faghag friend of mine told me about the storyline of Paulo and Miguel, and it happened to be a telenovela! And I loved it, I have to say! I love that it was a nice love story with a beginning and an end, and that I don't have another soap storyline to follow. They are so many right now...

Miguel and Paulo.

But, Paulo and Miguel. Their love story was to be seen in the Portuguese telenovela O Beijo do Escorpião, which means Scorpions kiss, from 2014. The story is about a couple of familys in Lisboa with and there is a shopping mall in focus, but bla bla, let's concentrate on Paulo and Miguel. They are both pilots on a privat jet company and Paulo Furtado (Pedro Carvalho) is deeply closetred because he has a really homophic asshole boss who would sack him if he knew about his sexual orientation. He is best friends with Miguel Macieira (Duarte Gomes) who is a quite sleezy womanizer, but a loyal friend. Until he realizes that he has ended up in bed with Paulo while they were really drunk, and then he becomes a real bastard. I guess that Miguel actually is straight but of course, he falls in love with the lovely Paulo.

Miguel and Paulo on their special day.

If you would want to see this storyline and not want to read any spoilers you should stop reading now. The story ends well with a wedding at the airport where they are both wearing shorts. I wonder if that's common i Portugal to marry in shorts... But anyway, I think it is so interesting how the story usually goes in soap operas and other series when there is a gay couple. I have written about it before, but I will have to do it again. Why soes it always have to be so much violence and why does the abused part always kiss and make up and forgive without winking? Here we have an excellent example of that. When Miguel realizes that he has had sex with Paulo, which he forgot because he was really drunk, he beats up Paulo, he treat him like shit and call him very nasty things, he tries to sabotage at work, he spits on him and he betrays him for his boss. Then Paulo is in a plane crash, Miguel fears that he has lost him and realizes that he loves him and kisses him. And Paulo forgives him without a wink! Why does he do that? Is that how it goes in real life? Unfortunately I think it is more common that we think... But anyway, it has a happy ending, even though it is very quick. It seems like the writers realizes with only a couple of episodes left that they have to wrap it upp and they do want a sunset ending and creates a proposal out of the blue that is not really realistic. But I love it anyway!

Duarte Gomes and Pedro Carvalho.

And I really love this storyline. Ok, the telenovela O Beijo do Escorpião might not be the most fantastic thing ever made, but it is a nicely told story with just the right amount of drama and cosiness, and the story proceeds in just the right speed. Except from the ending. But it is ok. And the actors are really great! Both Pedro Carvalho who plays Paulo and Duarte Gomes who plays Miguel are really good and does a really good job. They have a great chemistry and they manages to convince me that they are in love. I love them both!And if you want to watch their storyline, just follow the link.

And if you would like to watch more telenovelas there are a few with gay storylines. Actually, right now there is an ongoing, also Portuguese storyline in a telenovela called Os Nossos Dias, with a couple called David and Xavier. But I have heard that it is no good, even though Duarte Gomes is playing David. But I think I will give it a chance anyway. Other popular telenovelas with gay storylines are the Argentinian Botineras, the Colombian Niños Ricos, Pobres Padres and the Spanish Un Golpe De Suerte. I will come back to the topic when I've seen any of them!

The best moment of 2014!

Danny Miller and Ryan Hawley.

Yesterday this happened! Amazing! Emmerdale's Danny Miller and Ryan Hawley won the All about soap Best moment 2014 for the first kiss between Aaron and Robert! So well deserved! I actually voted for this award. But not for that moment! I just could not vote for Ste's and John Paul's wedding in Hollyoaks. So I did. But I am actually very happy that Robron won. My vote was a matter of principle, and I really think Kierom Richardson and James Sutton would have been very well deserved of a prize as well, and if I could have voted on two moments, I would have voted on them both. And now, I really think that the first kiss between Robert and Aaron, aka Robron, was the best moment.The most shocking at least!

Alibi freundins

Speaking of girls who fall in love with gays, why don't wee talk a bit about the alibi girlfriends as well, the beards? It's called an alibi freundin in German. Ok, I know, they are the victims, and they are really taken advantage of. They have never asked to be used like that. But they can still be a bit annoying... And there is a lot of them!

First of all we have the legal ones.

Christian and Judith in Verbotene Liebe.

Judith Hagendorf (Katrin Heß) was living with Christian and Olli when they got together and because of his boxing career, and we all know that the the boxing culture is quite homophobic, som Christian needed a beard and Judith helped out. Even though she had a boyfriend. And then Christian came out with lots of noice on a boxing game. I really liked Judith. She was a lovely girl.

Joscha and Raquel in Alles Was Zählt.

Then we had the wonderful Raquel Santana (Yara Hassan) of Alles Was Zählt. She wanted to stay in Germany so she even married Joscha just to be his alibi. And here is a quite similar story, because Joscha had to stay in the closet because of his footbaal (soccer) career, and we all know that the football culture is quite homophobic. But it is only getting better and better! Raquel was hilarious, and I really liked it when she dated Ingo, who is a real favourite character in Alles Was Zählt. Unfortunately she died not long ago, because the writers of Alles Was Zählt is trying to make it some kind of middle-aged soap. I do not approve!

Joscha and Mel in Alles Was Zählt.

But this was not poor old Joscha's first beard. At first he dated Melanie "Mel" Wendt (Anna-Katharina Fecher) "for real" just to hide his homosexuality. Mel is a really shallow character that seemed to only date Joscha to be a football wife. But it seemed that she really liked him, but she was quite brutally dumped. Joscha just couldn't induce himself to have sex with her, which is understandable. After Joscha she also dated  our wonderful Deniz, who really needs to have a new man in his life! Especially when all the girls he is dating are sissys. I really do not care for Mel at all, even though she is Ingo's step daughter and even though she really didn't deserve to be used like that. A really boring, and bitchy, character.

Nina and Deniz in Alles Was Zählt.

And speaking of Deniz, he also had a beard once. It might have been that he quite fancied Nina Sommer (Nathalie Thiede) at first, but they really didn't mash work together but I think that he really delayed the breaking up because he was afraid of his feelings for Roman. Lovely Roman... Nina was a real bitch when Deniz had ended it with her and started dating Roman, but she matured a lot and in the end (she left in 2009) she was so likeable. She was a real good friend to Deniz and she was all supportive of DeRo. As should!

Lenny and Emily in Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten.

And of course, there has been an alibi freundin in Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten as well. And at least this time, Lenny actually was in love with Emily Höfer (Anne Menden) at the beginning, even though he was gay. But you don't fall in love with a gender. And I really didn't like Emily. She really was in love with Lenny and tried to please him so much, I have to give her that but she wasn't really that nice. Not during the relationship with Lenny or after. But I read that she did date Tuner after Lenny and I like him, so she might have become better lately. I don't know.

Iida and Lari in Salatut Elämät.

And speaking of really annoying girls Iida Mustonen (Rosa Rusanen) is really annoying! Ok, she usually is a really good friend to both Lari and Elias, especially Elias, but you will have to look hard for a more whining character! And she is really moody as well and Iida is a character that you never really get to know. If you are following a soap you wil get to know the characters so you will know how they will react in different situations but with Iida you will never really know. She changes all the time and it's like the writers can't agree to how to chracterize her. Really annoying! And she really just snogged with Lari to piss off Janne at first but then she got all in love, pregnant and anorectic and even more whining. Poor Iida.

Will and Gabi in Days of our lives.

And speaking of pregnant, Gabi Hernandez (Gabriela Rodriguez) got the baby, but she waiting almost until the baby was born before she told Will. Well, just what to expect of Days of our lives. Ok, I haven't watched the whole WilSon storyline, I have to confess, because I don't really enjoy it. But I don't really unlike Gabi, but I don't like her either. A quite bland character. Nothing to get excited about.

Hannah and John Paul i Hollyoaks.

And then we have poor old Hannah Ashworth (Emma Rigby) in Hollyoaks that I told you about yesterday. John Paul used her, and we did pity her, and she was alright, but also a bit bland. Moving on.

Rae and Ste in Hollyoaks.

But Hannah is not the only beard we have seen in Hollyoaks. Ste also had one. When he and Brendan was top secretly seeing eachother, Brendan actually told Ste to get a beard. Unfortunately Rae Wilson (Alice Barlow) got the blank lottery ticket. She was a lovely girl that Ste actually had a good eye to the last time she lived in Hollyoaks. But poor Rae really wasn't in a good luck. At first she got pregnant with Ste, caught Ste and Brendan in the act, lost the baby and then got murdered by the notorious Silas Blisset. But not in the same night thankfully. And I liked Rae, even though she was in the way for Stendan, one of my favourite ships.

Cleo and Harry in Hollyoaks.

But we also have two ungoing beard-storylines, and one of them in Hollyoaks. Of course. Hollyoaks have got everything! Are newest addition to the LGBT characters in Hollyoaks is Harry Thompson (Parry Glasspool) and he is Tony Hutchinson's son. He came around in February (second time with the same actor) and I love him already. First it seemed like he fancied Cleo McQueen (Nadine Ros Mulkerrin) but then he made out with John Paul in The Loft! And he is only 15! There are really no excuses for John Pauls behaviour even though he didn't know about his age. But he is married to Ste and should be snogging some random scamps in The Loft. But ok, they have had rough time with all the HIV and stuff, but he still shouldn't have done it! And now it seems like Harry really has a crush on John Paul, who is his teacher! What a kerfuffel! And the lads at school are for some reason teasing Harry about John Paul because they know that John Paul is gay and to save his skin, Harry made out with Cleo and seems to be dating her now. Poor Cleo really like Harry and Harry seems to have a crush on John Paul and this could really be a mess!

Ben and Abi in Eastenders.

And at last I present to you Bem Mitchell and his beard Abi Branning (Lorna Fitzgerald) in Eastenders. I mean, what is he doing? We all know that he is gay. He used to fancy Christian Clarke (which he also accused of assault) and he came out for his dad Phil and he tried to snog Johnny Carter before he went away. What about all this closetness now? He really have no need for a beard. Abi seems to be a sweet but quite bland girl. No really, dump her and bring back Johnny! Or do a cross over where he starts dating Finn in Emmerdale. Or maybe Harry in Hollyoaks. Anything is better than this!