El Gran Final de "La Madrastra"
So the final episodes of "La Madrastra" aired Monday night and we finally learned who "el verdadero asesino de Patricia" was. It turned out to be that creepy perv Demetrio Rivero, Esteban's attorney.

But apparently the writers didn't think that having him be an attorney was bad enough for their villain. They also made him be a child molester (of his former stepdaughter, Ana Rosa, who is his current wife's niece), a cross-dresser (this detail was thrown in near the end of the series), a worshipper of La Santissima Muerte (the Most Holy Death), and the murderer of at least five people (Patricia, Servando, Luciano, the bellboy in Aruba, and Ana Rosa).

Good old Deme gets his comeuppance in the end, but some people at the "La Madrastra" forum actually felt sorry for him. I think that they were just upset that Alba, the über-bitch, didn't suffer in the end. She just couldn't understand why everyone else thought it was wrong that she was in love with her own nephew, so she jumped from the roof of the San Román family's home in one of last week's episodes, then she got to die a quick death. Yes, we all wanted to see Alba suffer more than she did—she got away with way too much twisted stuff—but sometimes that's just how things go in novela land.

All that's left now of "La Madrastra" is the follow-up special that will air this Sunday night (September 11), "La Madrastra: Cinco Años Después", which will show us what the characters' lives are like five years later. I can tell you that none of the characters will look any older. Hey, they haven't aged at all from the mid-1980s till today, so why should they start now? They must've found that fountain of youth that Ponce de Leon was looking for. And then on Monday night, the 12th, the cast will appear on the Latin equivalent of Oprah's talk show, "Cristina".