SUMMARY

Lorena and Sara grew up together in an orphanage and love each other as sisters, though they are completely different. Lorena dreams about starting a family someday and what she most likes doing is cooking.
Sara is a materialist; she’s always been resentful about the poverty they live in the orphanage and her ambition is bigger than her scruples.
As Lorena dreams about learning cuisine she says goodbye to the nuns that raised her and goes to study gastronomy to the capital city. That same day, the mother superior discovers that Sara stole the orphanage’s money, and while confronting her, the nun dies of a heart attack.

Sara runs away with her lover and accomplice, Chalo, the orphanage’s driver, and decides to erase her traces by stealing hers and Lorena’s record. After reading them, she finds out that, while she was found in a rubbish dump, Lorena had been abandoned, without any explanation, by her grandmother, the millionaire Hortensia Armendáriz. Her first impulse is to go for Lorena and help her to confront her grandmother and fight for her rights, but then she thinks it better and decides to usurp Lorena’s place in the Armendáriz’ gastronomic empire.

Not knowing anything about her real origin, Lorena gets a job in the Armendáriz’ company as a kitchen assistant. She also meets a young doctor called Alonso, who she falls in love with and, after a while, they get engaged.

What Sara less expected was to find Lorena in the company, so Lorena’s presence is desperating for her. Sara’s mind betrays her, and little by little her burning desire to steal everything from Lorena grows, including Alonso, so she plans to make Lorena vanish off her way. Lorena suffers for her friend after learning that Hortensia, who she now despises, had abandoned Sara, supposedly. Hortensia, as far as she’s concerned, fights with all her resources to avoid facing all the harm she caused to the people close to her.

When Lorena finds out about Sara’s schemes, she realizes that she doesn’t really know this girl who she loves as a sister. As she suffers, she will courageously confront betrayals, deceptions and cruelty and will find a new hope in the person she less suspected that could lover her.

Summary taken from “Las Noticias De México”

OUR COMMENT

“Querida Enemiga” isn’t garbage, not even ‘a bit’ or ‘kinda’; maybe it’s that the word to describe it’s not that one, since “Querida Enemiga” is not one of those irritating telenovelas. “Querida Enemiga” is a good telenovela, with a good production, good interpretation… but it’s a very uninteresting telenovela, with a plot alike some zillion other plots, which don’t contribute anything; with goody characters who are so kindly good that are on the edge of skepticism and stupidity (we’re afraid they’re on the other side of the edge) and some others who are as bad and fake as their performance, so bad that the audience doesn’t believe they’re wicked, with melodramatic behaviors, those characters who are evil just because, who don’t love anybody and whose only function is to fill up a space in the script and stretch the plot with their stupid evil deeds.

Although its broadcasting is not over yet, at least in Galavisión that is where we see it, our usual readers know we don’t usually talk about a telenovela while it’s being broadcasted, but we have had the chance to watch it lately, kind of from day to day to tell you the truth, but even so we think we haven’t missed anything, because the comings and goings of the script fit in with the old radio serials, and the characters don’t have any blood running down their veins and are not interesting at all. “Querida Enemiga” is a filler telenovela, those you can sit and watch if you don’t have anything at all to do. As we don’t think it’s going to change much, we decided to write about it.

First, the story of a girl abandoned by her wicked grandmother and saved by some nuns (for God’s sake, the nuns again!) who grows into a kind and sweet orphan Snow White (Lorena de la Cruz), hated by her bosom friend (Sara, also de la Cruz, because the nuns didn’t go to a lot of trouble with the girls’ last names). It was very bad luck for Lorena to become friends with a girl who hates and envies her and just wants to harm her. What were you thinking about, Lorena, to make friends with that girl precisely? Weren’t there any other girls?

Then the story of the mother who falls in a coma, the brother who becomes an alcoholic (I’m really not sure whether he’s the brother, sorry for the inaccuracy), as the hyper mega evil girl becomes the lover of an old man and attacks again, because Sara isn’t only ambitious and selfish but also a murderer, and she’s not happy with just being rich like Scrooge McDuck and dive into her money that she also has as her objective to make Lorena fall in disgrace, who already carries the burden of being in love with Alonso, a very foolish guy, who’s always messing it up but who Lorena will end up getting married to in the end because that’s what the hero is for, though any normal girl would prefer Ernesto.
The plot of ”Querida Enemiga” is like those plots that the telenovelas’ characters tell, those characters who claim to be addicted to telenovelas, like Carmenaza in “Café Con Aroma de Mujer” or Melany in “La Ex” – quite absurd, melodramatic, baroque and exaggerated, although the production is modern, which is hard to tell.

In the last productions of Televisa, in which they pretentiously look forward to ‘modernizing’, a new element they’ve used is that there are two heroes now, and the girl can’t stop struggling to stay with either one or the other. In “Querida Enemiga” as well as in “Las Tontas No Van Al Cielo” we’re presented with a triangle, which is ‘the new’ element (though we had seen this before in, for example, “Paloma” or in “Secreto De Amor”) – the third in the group is generally a worthy opponent of the protagonist. The problem is that in both telenovelas we betted on the loser, I mean, in this telenovela we’d rather see Lorena stay with Ernesto (Jorge Aravena) and not with Alonso (Gabriel Soto) and in “Las Tontas No Van Al Cielo” we liked Patricio better (though he was quite a jinx, poor guy) than Santiago ( who is as much of a jinx as Patricio and though Santiago is pretty funny we don’t like protagonists who are clownish; we like the more moderate heroes). Anyway, on top of the fact that we don’t give a damn about this love story, the foolish protagonist marries the wrong guy. Never seen before.

THE BEST

When we talked about the telenovela “Todo Sobre Camila” we said we liked Scarlett Ortiz.
Even if we liked nothing of what we saw about her, we liked her just because, because we wanted. With Ana Layevska it happens kind of the same, though in Ana’s case we liked her in “Primer Amor A Mil Por Hora”. We like Ana Layevska and we think that she could give more of her if she would be paired with more attractive heroes (truly attractive, not just muscles).
In “Querida Enemiga”, Ana is even better than in her previous telenovela “Las Dos Caras De Ana”, where she had a role that didn’t fit her at all and was paired with the weakling Rafael Amaya; but Lorena is a quite insipid character, though she’s a girl with character. Even so, if we have to choose, we choose Ana.

Surprisingly, we also like Jorge Aravena, and we say ‘surprisingly’ because we had him labeled as a protagonist actor of garbage telenovelas, of immeasurable fiascos, of ridicule products. In “Querida Enemiga”, Aravena is quite good, we don’t know whether it is that he lost weight or what, but we think he’s even more handsome.

THE WORST

The one who has certainly lost weight is Gabriel Soto - thanks God he lost that inflatable doll aspect, or better, inflated with steroids, though he still has that horrendous dyed hair. Still in a human dimension size, Gabriel Soto has a long way to walk to become an actor. It doesn’t help him either that his character Alonso is a weak man (we don’t know whether that was the intention, but we see him that way) who gives in before any inconvenience, disinflates (how appropriate the word ‘disinflate’!) without counting the times he was deceived as if he were a fool. The scenes in which Alonso falls in desperation because Lorena’s mother is in a coma for a supposedly medical mistake are pathetic, believe me, they make you feel embarrassed for him. Lorena, do it for your mother, don’t marry him.