Previously on Rebelde Way: Marizza and Luna’s masquerade has been uncovered. Do you think either of them will get in trouble for it? Probably not tbh. Mia committed herself to getting Vico back into school. Feli refused to believe Manuel was breaking up with her, so he and Mia decided they should mess with Feli’s fragile self-esteem to make her dump Manuel. An excellent idea that will in no way backfire! Pilar decided to help them along by reporting in the paper that Mia and Manuel were seen in the map room together. And as we know, nothing good has ever happened in the map room.
Opening monologue: Sometimes, people who are opposites can come together and realize they are meant2b. This is accompanied by a clip of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail. What a random example.
Anydoodle, when we last left our heroes, Feli had hit Mia with a flying tackle for daring to talk to Manuel, which I don’t think was meant to be funny but it totally is. The chem/physics teacher has to break it up, which will come back to bite them later.
Dunoff’s office. The psychologist is having a meltdown over being tricked by Marizza, and is flipping out on Dunoff for not taking her seriously. I mean, that’s only the same amount of respect that he gives all the other teachers here, so the psychologist really shouldn’t be making such a big deal. Dunoff’s like, “Do you see why your daughter needs therapy?” Sonia huffs that Marizza is just an irresponsible teenager, not a psychopath. I mean, she could totally be both, Sonia. Dunoff says it’s Sonia’s fault for never making Marizza take responsibility for anything. I feel dirty for agreeing with him, but it’s totally true. Sonia starts weeping and Dunoff holds her, as usual. I feel like if there were a drinking game for this show, “Marizza pulls a stunt that ends with Sonia wailing in Dunoff’s arms” would definitely be one of the requirements for a shot.
In Manuel’s room, Nico has inexplicably gone back to being a wuss about the Society thing. Manuel’s like, “But we have to get revenge!” Nico’s like, “But I don’t want to get revenge!” Dammit, you two, I thought we were making progress! Manuel tries to convince him that just because the Society has backed off for now, they’ll be at it again after lulling Nico and Manuel into a false sense of security. Nico’s like, “Stop saying words.” Halfway through their argument they’re like, “Oh right, Marcos is in the room too” and glare suspiciously at him. “When did you get here?” Nico asks. Marcos is like, “A while ago? It’s not my fault the two of you can’t even notice when someone comes into your own bedroom.” Not in so many words. Speaking of Nico backpedaling on his opinions, he’s also back to deciding that Marcos is evil. Nevertheless, they continue to have their conversation right in front of him. Marcos suggests that the Society, being a bunch of bullies, want to make Manuel and Nico paranoid and afraid. Despite the fact that this is A) Bullying 101, and B) probably something that nerdy butt monkey Marcos is personally familiar with, Nico’s like, “He only knows this because he’s ONE OF THEM!!!”
Someone knocks at the door, and a scare chord goes off. It’s not the Society, though. It’s a gigantic, stalkery gift from Feli, which I think also deserves a scare chord. She apparently has decided that, since Manuel yelled at her for getting him a gift, the solution is to overcompensate with an even bigger gift. See, I didn’t want to say anything, but when Mia and Manuel were formulating their plan, they forgot to take into account the fact that Feli does not love herself. Like, at all. Anyway, she wants him to meet her in the laundry room. Going on what we’ve seen in the past, one of two things is about to happen: Feli and Manuel are going to have sex, or Feli’s going to string Manuel from the ceiling and offer him as a human sacrifice.
Back in Dunoff’s office, Sonia’s like, “I don’t think you should expel Marizza” and Dunoff’s like, “Well, if your boobs INSIST.” It’s the same scene as ever, although Sonia admits that she lets Marizza get away with everything because she wants to make up for being a neglectful mother. Some self-awareness from a Rebelde Way character! Gloria pops in to tell him that Mia and Feli are trying to tear each other’s hair out and Dunoff starts wailing about how no one values him and how his job is soooo haaaard. Sonia coos that he’s a brilliant, brilliant man and everyone should worship him. “I don’t know why I haven’t left my wife and daughter for you yet,” he says. Charming! Even Sonia has to back away from that one.
In Mia’s room, she’s wailing about her hair, even though it looks the same as always, so whatever. All the girls offer to lend her their various beauty products. “BUT YOU WON’T HELP ME WITH THE PROTEST!!!” she shrieks. The other girls hem and haw over how it’s not really any of their business. Mia grits her teeth and vows to get Vico back into school, while “Bootylicious” starts playing in the background. Hee.
In Marizza’s room, Luna is wailing about potentially getting expelled. Lujan comforts her, telling her that Marizza will probably take most of the blame, and they aren’t going to pin it on Luna considering what a model student she is. Didn’t we end last episode with Lujan being all pissed at Luna for hanging out with Mia? She is master of the mixed message. Luna cries that this is the first time in her life that she’s ever had friends! Jesus Christ, Luna. Lujan immediately jumps on that, and asks if she means rich friends like Mia. Luna tells her to back off, and Lujan gets all pissy and says, “You’re crazy! I’m leaving, bye.” Aaaand I guess they’re fighting again.
Sonia yells at Marizza on the phone for making Luna impersonate her and says that from now on, she’s going to be a tough mom. Someone disciplining Marizza?! I’m not about to get my hopes up, though. I’ve been burned before.
Manuel finds Feli in the laundry room, and she’s set up a bunch of pillows and wrapped herself in a sheet. I guess of the “have sex” or “hang Manuel upside down” options, she’s going for the first one. It’d be funny if someone came in to try and do their laundry right now. Anyway, Manuel gently talks her out of it, and tells her that he wants to break up because he loves her like a friend, not because she hasn’t put out. Feli cottons on that he’s into Mia, although he denies it. Then she kicks him out and cries.
Lounge. Mia is crying to Luna about fighting with Feli. “I can’t believe that cow tackled me!” she says. Dammit, Mia! The fact that you never called Feli names was one of your only redeeming qualities! Luna suggests that Mia and Feli could still work it out, but Mia sniffs that she’s never talking to Feli again, and flounces off. Then Sonia comes in and thanks Luna for trying to back Marizza up, even though the whole thing blew up in their faces. As usual, Sonia way oversteps her boundaries and starts angsting to Luna about how she’s a terrible mother. Luna says she wishes she had a mother like Sonia, and Sonia says she can come to visit when Luna’s mom does, and make her see the error of her abandoning ways. Luna says that her mom never comes to visit — she’s not even sure she knows that Luna attends Elite Way. What? Luna’s mom doesn’t even notice that Luna doesn’t live in the house anymore? That’s a whole new level of parental non-involvement, even for this show. Anyway, a bunch of kids recognize Sonia and start flocking around her. Lujan comes in and sees Luna in the middle of all this and glares at her. How dare Luna…talk to her friend’s mother? Honestly, everything pisses Lujan off, I can’t even guess what she’s mad about this time.
Mia’s room. Vico calls Mia and tells her that she’s run away from home. Mia’s all like, “I’m so worried about you, because you’re my REAL FRIEND. It turns out you were right about SOME PEOPLE, and we’ll have to talk about your problems later because CERTAIN PEOPLE have BAD MANNERS and EAVESDROP.” Feli, who’s sitting in the room, snaps that she knows Mia has a thing for Manuel and was trying to make them break up. She’s all like, “Oh yeah, and your mom is dead and your dad doesn’t love you, and your servants only take care of you because they’re paid to.” Way harsh!
Pablo’s room. Guido’s spent a hundred dollars on a new cologne, and Pablo tells him it smells like vinegar. Heh. The not-ethics teacher comes in and tells him that his request to expel Tomás and/or kick him out of the room has been denied, as rooms can’t be switched after the first week. I like how the teachers have suddenly become all about enforcing school rules when the plot needs them to. “You’re switching rooms?” Guido asks. “Not for me, for him,” Pablo says. And then the camera cuts to Tomás, who’s apparently been sitting in the room this entire time. That’s so mean. And kind of hilarious.
“I didn’t show up for the first time in five episodes to be treated like this!”
In the hallway, Marizza runs up to show Mia her finished poster, but Mia is (sing it with me) too emo to care. “Yeah, you’re not looking too great. You’ve got dirt on your face,” Marizza tells her. Mia freaks out and has to take a selfie to check. God love her.
Marizza says that Luna and Lujan are bringing more signs. Lujan, seriously? I guess her commitment to going along with every single plan of Marizza’s trumps her hatred for Mia and Vico. Anyway, Marizza says what they really need is more people, and Mia wails that none of the girls are willing to back her up on this. Marizza’s like, “Aren’t half the guys in this school on your dick?” and Mia’s like, “Oh, true.” They run off to go start protesting, and the camera ominously pans back to the lockers. Some hooded dude squirts what looks like mayonnaise into Nico’s locker, then sets it on fire. What, is mayonnaise an accelerant? It seems a little unnecessary otherwise.
Nico doesn’t really strike me as the kind of person to have a bunch of screaming faces in his locker either, but whatever. I guess he can have layers.
On the way to class, Manuel insists that they should keep investigating the Society — “Someone has to know something!” Nico doesn’t think that will get them anywhere. He’s not being a very good Boy Detective right now. Why don’t they ask Mansilla? Didn’t he used to go to Elite Way? Whatever. Anyway, they gather in chem class, and Guido asks Mia how her assignment went. “What assignment?” she asks. Uh-oh. Naturally, the chem/physics teacher decides it would be funny to call on Mia and Feli to present their homework. Feli immediately tries to throw Mia under the bus, and Mia’s like, “She’s lying, we both equally forgot to do the homework!” Heh. The chem/physics teacher snarks that since she has the “misfortune” of knowing these kids so well, she knows Mia is the leader of their little girl gang, ergo, the blame goes to Mia. Feli is smug. Then the chem/physics teacher asks Marcos where Marizza is, as she’s skipped class (and not done the homework, as you’ll recall). He stutters trying to get the answer out, and the teacher makes fun of him. My God, I think she’s worse than Dunoff. Marcos finally snaps that Marizza’s not here, but the homework is, and he does the science experiment in front of the whole class. Even the abusive chem/physics teacher can’t find a way to berate him for that. And Marizza gets an A for a project she did literally no work on! Siiigh.
Teacher’s lounge. The not-not-ethics teacher tells Mansilla that he thinks his campaign against Dunoff is a bad idea. Mansilla says he isn’t arguing against Dunoff, he’s arguing for Vico. “Who’s Vico?” the not-not-ethics teacher derps. “She’s a scholarship student, no one cares about her.” Scare chord! Although I mean, it’s not like we didn’t already know that about this school anyway.
Then Papa B comes in! It’s been a while since we’ve seen him. The not-not-ethics teacher introduces himself as the economics teacher. Papa B has come to defend Pablo’s honor or whatever once again, but Dunoff is hiding from his responsibilities. The economics teacher tries to brownnose his way into Papa B’s good books, and Papa B’s like, “Okay, I wanted to yell at Dunoff, but I’ll settle for you.” Heh.
Marcos goes to his locker and finds a note from Marizza. She tells him that she’s grateful that he saved her grade with his chem demonstration. “Right now, I think you’re hotter than Brad Pitt,” she writes. HEE! Marcos flashbacks to when she danced up on him at the beach (damn, that was FOREVER ago!) and gets all twitterpated.
In the cafeteria, Mia’s roped all the guys into helping her with the protest. Guido is going along with it because he’d jump off a cliff if Mia asked him to, and Pablo’s doing it to prove that he doesn’t still care about the Vico thing. Mia remarks that she thought he might’ve been the one to get Vico expelled, seeing as she cheated on him. Pablo says he’s over it, and invites Mia to his house for the weekend. Yikes! I mean, guess Pablo is a step up from Guido, but I still wouldn’t. But Mia doesn’t take my advice, and accepts his invitation. Anyway, everyone disperses, and Papa B comes in to ask Pablo what’s up. Apparently Pablo called him? I don’t remember when that happened, but whatever. Pablo tries to weasel his way out of talking to his dad, but Papa B sits him down and wants to know all about his life. Pablo says he’s gotten his dignity back after the Vico thing; Mia is coming over on the weekend, and helping with her protest will totally get Pablo in her pants. Oh, Pablo. Papa B tries to get all abusive about how Pablo is stupid for trying to get Vico back into school, but Pablo reiterates that he’s doing it to show that he doesn’t give a shit about Vico. Papa B’s like, “Well played.” They’ll be tattooing the Dark Mark onto him soon. And the Marizza thing, how is that going? Pablo smugly tells Papa B that he dominates Marizza (ick), and she’ll do whatever he wants. Papa B says, “Prove it. Ditch Mia and make Marizza come over for dinner this weekend.” Aaaand Pablo’s back to nul points with his dad again.
Dunoff’s office. Some lawyer guy tells Dunoff that he should just let Vico back in; the University of Manchester is thinking of affiliating with Elite Way, and now is not the time to have any legal problems. The University of Manchester should raise their standards, but whatever. Dunoff grudgingly agrees: Elite Way isn’t known for having any disruptions, so they should probably just keep this quiet. An excellent time for Mia’s protest to begin! All the kids are in the main hall, banging on pots and chanting Vico’s name. Mia squeals to Luna and Lujan that she can feel the anger raising everyone’s adrenaline, and Lujan beams at her. I guess these two finally found a common ground in bloodlust.
“Next time we should actually physically fight Dunoff!”
Anyway, they all go on for a while, with the extras hitting the pans and looking vaguely confused in the background, until Dunoff comes in and shuts it down. He yells at them and they all immediately stop chanting. Worst protesters ever. Mia takes credit for the protest, and Dunoff is all appalled that she’s being ~rebelde.
Nacho’s sad trailer. Nacho comes in with a bunch of money, and tells Marizza that he’s now working for Pablo as his “personal assistant.” Nacho’s all chipper about this. I guess he’s over wanting to throw acorns at Pablo now. “Personal assistant”, of course, is code for “buy Pablo beer.” Jesus, I know Argentina is chill with teenagers drinking in the club, but you’d think someone would think twice about selling beer to a nine-year-old. Pablo comes in and tells Marizza that if she doesn’t want Papa B to find out about Nacho, she’ll come to dinner with him. “You choose,” he evils, before flouncing off. Nacho tells Marizza that he got her a gift, and he gives her a ring and asks her to be his adopted sister. They hug. It’s heartwarming or whatever.
We finally get back to Nico’s locker being set on fire. You’d think someone would’ve noticed that earlier. Even Guido looks perturbed by how badly the Society fucked up Nico’s shit. Manuel immediately flips out and starts yelling at everyone in the hallway. “DID ANY OF YOU DO THIS?? HOW LONG DO YOU PLAN ON LETTING THIS HAPPEN??” Well, the second one is a fair question, admittedly. Manuel jumps on Marcos, because that’s what everyone does when they don’t know what else to do. Kind of sucks to be him! Manuel starts wailing on him until Mansilla pulls him off. Mansilla tells Manuel that the Society wants him to get all violent and be expelled. Manuel’s like, “Aha! So you admit they exist!” I mean, duh, Mansilla used to go to school here. Didn’t I just say that?
Gloria pops up and says that Manuel has to come to Dunoff’s office, since everyone who was involved in the protest is about to get in trouble. But wasn’t Marcos there, too? Whatever. Bizarrely, the next time we cut to Dunoff’s office, though, they aren’t even talking about the protest. Instead, he and Gloria freak out over the fact that Joaquin (the new kid from last episode) didn’t show up to school, and now his Very Important Uncle is calling and wants to know how he’s doing. I can’t tell you how little I care about this new kid.
Pepa gives Sonia her credit card bill. Sonia, newly committed to actually disciplining Marizza, freaks out when she sees how much money Marizza’s spent, particularly on children’s clothes. “What does she need kids’ clothes for?” Sonia wonders. What, indeed!
Everyone’s waiting in the lounge for Dunoff to come yell at them. Mia gives them all tickets to a nightclub that will get them into the VIP room. Manuel gets all pissy over this — he protested for JUSTICE, not to get into a nightclub! Mia’s like “Whatever” and runs off to hand out more tickets. Then some random girl — whose name I know has been mentioned, but I cannot remember at all — rolls up and tells them that they need to come see Feli. Even Mia is worried. Luna tells them that they have to stay and get yelled at, but Mia and Manuel ignore her and run off. Cliffhanger!
Same, Luna.
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