Although I don’t watch much TV and haven’t had cable for the last four years, I have an antenna that miraculously continues to work and gets some channels, including the popular Spanish channel Univision.

As much as I hate to admit it, I was recently sucked in by a Mexican soap opera called “Fuego en la Sangre,” to the point where I would start to randomly think about what was going to happen next throughout the day.

I didn’t just plan for it to happen either, things just got to the point where I was ready to watch every weeknight at nine.

It started with just being around some friends and hearing them go off about what had happened during the last episode. Then, a couple days later, my grandma, aunt and mom were all talking about it while we ate at a family gathering and my uncle heard the discussion.

He turned to me and said “Hay una muchachona en esa novella que le dicen el bon bon asesino y esta buenota!”

He told me there’s a woman on the show who they call the “marshmallow assassin” (a.k.a. Ninel Conde) and that she looks great. That was the last straw, I had to watch.

Aside from everyone always talking about it, commercials for soap operas run at least thirty two million times a day on Univision, and if I heard Vicente Fernandez sing “Vale mas?” one more time, I was going to erupt.

The show had been going on for quite a while now and I decided to start watching during the middle of it, and what an episode I chose to watch.

In this episode, the “marshmallow assassin” went on vacation with her husband but got framed for stealing money and then murdered by an evil, evil man named Fernando.

The main reason to watch the soap opera was murdered in cold blood! After I saw this, I got a summary of what the soap opera was all about from my friend.

She told me that there are three brothers (Juan, Oscar, and Franco Reyes) who’s sister (Libia) dies at the beginning under strange circumstances after finding out that her husband (Bernardo Elizondo) had another wife and three daughters while he had a relationship with her.

The three Reyes brothers swear to take revenge by seducing Bernardo’s three daughters (Sofia, Sarita, and Jimena).

However, things get really messy in between with all kinds of rape, baby-stealing, murdering, plotting, cheating and much more. The Reyes brothers each end up falling in love with one of the sisters throughout the mess to make things even more complicated than they were. There is so much that went on that it hurts my head just to think about it, let alone try and write it all out.

In the end, the Reyes brothers are put on the line to make a decision on whether they will continue with the oath they made at the beginning to get revenge for their sister, or be with the sisters they each fell in love with besides all the drama.

Andres Cuevas Jr. can be reached at [email protected]