For an only vaguely accurate definition of “date”, anyway.
Previously on Rebelde Way: Joaquin continued his inexplicable conquest of the hearts and minds of the girls at Elite Way. Marizza tried to blackmail her way out of lunch with the Bustamantes, but she unwisely let a third grader take control of her revenge, so now she’s stuck at their house with no way out. Feli and Manuel broke up finally, actually, for real this time. I hope.
Opening monologue: Love makes us act weird, but without it, we’d be dead inside. Fair enough. By the way, I ended up on Luisana Lopilato’s Wikipedia page the other day, and someone has randomly edited it to say she plays the saxophone.
We begin where we left off, as always. I’m going to have to come up with a snappy way of saying that, because it’s been the opener for like my last three posts. Anyway, her blackmail material gone, Marizza resorts to begging Pablo to let her go on her date with Joaquin. It’s depressing that Joaquin of all people has reduced Marizza to this. Pablo’s like, “Nope, I got shit to prove to my abusive dad”, and locks her in the house. Is that even possible? Every house and apartment I’ve ever lived in can be unlocked from the inside. You know, so the people who live there can leave and stuff. I don’t know.
Nico and Manuel creep into the lounge to discuss their clues about the Society. Nico is wearing an orange shirt under his partially-zipped jacket, and with the crappy video quality in the long shots, I spent way too much time trying to figure out if he was wearing an unbuttoned shirt and exposing his chest. It just seemed so weird and out of character, not to mention not something I want to see ever. But it’s just an orange shirt. We cool. ANYWAY, Manuel tells him that he’s suspicious that Mansilla was in the Society, and is still loyal to them now. His helpfulness is just a trap! Nico starts freaking out that they can’t trust anyone and the paranoia is going to kill him. Just then, Mansilla rolls up and is like, “What’s up dudes! Tell me everything you’ve learned about the Society!” Manuel and Nico flail that they’ve found absolutely nothing, nothing to tell at all, nope. Mansilla tells Manuel that someone’s waiting outside for him. It turns out to be Papa C, and he tells Manuel that he’s impressed with his work, and he wants to give him a real job: watching over Mia. Manuel’s all shocked, like he doesn’t spend all his time stalking her anyway. He might as well get paid for it.
In Mia’s room, she’s trying on Mama C’s clothes and squealing over how similar they must have looked and how stylish Mama C was. Luna tells her that Mia’s anger at Peter and Papa C seems to have disappeared now that she has her mom’s clothes, and Mia’s like, “No, I’m still pissed.” Luna says that nevertheless, they must love her a lot to have kept her mom’s stuff for her. Mia is suspicious: she remembers that Papa C was always telling her that none of Mama C’s stuff was still in the house. She digs around in her mom’s coat pocket and finds some pages from her diary, and starts crying over how she’s too verklempt to read them. Mia runs out of her own room, and Luna’s eyes kind of flick down to where the diary pages are lying on her bed.
Bustamante Bungalow. Marizza wails over her dead cell phone battery, so now she can’t call Joaquin and tell him that she can’t make it. She also grouses about Nacho fucking up her blackmail. I mean, I hate Nacho, so I’d usually enjoy someone ragging on him, but it’s Marizza’s own fault for leaving blackmail to a third grader. She tries the door again, but it’s still locked. It’s weird because there’s a back door in the very room she’s in (or at least a window big enough to climb through), but she doesn’t consider going out that way at all. Pablo shows up with Mama Bustamante, who we haven’t seen in like twenty episodes. She coos over how pretty Marizza is, and how happy she is that Pablo finally likes a girl enough to bring her home. The Bustamantes leave the room to let Marizza gussy up, and she escapes out the bathroom window.
Some hallway. Papa C confesses to Manuel that he needs Manuel to stalk Mia because he’s worried about her. Mia fought with him once (once) — she’s practically a different person! As usual with the adults on this show, he oversteps his boundaries and tells Manuel that he feels very alone in raising Mia. But Manuel should know that it’s hard for single parents, right? On account of his dad killing himself and everything. “How do you know about that?” Manuel asks. Scare chord! Papa C tells him that he found out when he ordered that background check on him. Manuel’s like, “Damn, that was hella invasive,” and Papa C’s like, “Yeah, it kinda was…let’s awkwardly change the topic now.” Manuel agrees to spy on Mia.
Some field. Joaquin is all pleased that Marizza was able to come to their paragliding date. She freaks out that he actually wants her to come paragliding with him, not just stay on the ground and watch him do it. “I didn’t know it was this!” she wails, motioning off-screen.
I like how they’re being really shifty about showing the actual equipment.
Joaquin tells her he didn’t expect his girlfriend to be such a punk about it, and Marizza is immediately appeased: “Your girlfriend?” she beams. Oh, this will end well.
Pablo comes downstairs to tell Marizza that they’re leaving, but she’s gone. He immediately goes to the back door to check. I knew that was a door! Too bad Marizza didn’t. He finds a note from her claiming “female problems”. The note’s actually pretty polite, I didn’t think Marizza had it in her. Mama B is sympathetic, but Papa B snarks that Pablo clearly doesn’t have Marizza under control.
Somewhere between the last field scene and this one, they found the budget to bring in all the paragliding equipment. Marizza and Joaquin suit up and go floating over the field for a while. Blah blah blurry shots of trees and stuff. They don’t even have stock footage of Buenos Aires? That’s sad.
Mia comes into the not-library, where Papa C just happens to be hanging around. He tells her that he wanted to see how she’s doing, and she says, “How do you THINK I’m doing without my credit card?” Heh. Oh, Mia. Nevertheless, she relents and tells him she wants to talk about her Mom. Papa C immediately pulls back like, “Aw hell no,” but Mia persists: “Did she keep a diary?” What a weird question. Mia could totally just go back to her room and check, but whatever. Papa C gets all huffy that Mia’s asking about Mama C, but Mia ugly cries a bit and he relents. He tells her that he doesn’t know if Mama C kept a diary, but she did like to write. And the Coluccis were all very happy together. Aw!
Some cafe. I think this is the same cafe Manuel and Feli were at. Marizza’s bullshitting Joaquin with some stories about her fake parents, and Joaquin says he’d like to meet him. He tells her that he thought staying in Buenos Aires was going to be super lame, but now that he’s met her, he doesn’t want to leave. They make out in front of God and everybody — including Sonia, who was…out jogging? I guess? Marizza catches sight of her and they run off to yell at each other. Sonia doesn’t like Marizza having a secret boyfriend, and says it’s her right as a mother to meet boys that have their tongues down Marizza’s throat, but Marizza says she’ll just call a journalist and release Sonia’s ID, which has her real age on it. Sonia immediately cedes the argument. Clearly the only way this could possibly be resolved is for Sonia to sit in on their date while pretending to be Lujan’s mother. She and Marizza trade passive-aggressive snipes while glaring at each other, which Joaquin doesn’t pick up on at all. I think he’s officially dumber than Tomás, which is saying something.
Their cafe date gets interrupted by a call from Dunoff. He invites Joaquin to dinner so that he can continue trying to sell Pilar to him. Bizarrely, Joaquin says that the call must be from “[his] uncle”, and I believe he referred to Dunoff as his uncle a few episodes ago. But isn’t his uncle some very important guy that Dunoff is trying to suck up to? I don’t know. And don’t care! Let’s move on.
Dunoff hangs up and yells at Pilar for not doing more to ingratiate herself to any of the rich kids. Pilar says that everyone at Elite Way is an idiot, and Dunoff tells her that “those idiots” are the kids of the most powerful people in the country, and what’s the point of running this school if he can’t marry his daughter off to one of them? They had literally this exact same conversation in episode 3.
The camera pans ominously around the main hall as Manuel tells Nico about his new job. Manuel says that he has to arrange some plans to do with the Society, so he needs Nico to take over his stalking-Mia duties for a little bit. Didn’t Manuel just get this job? He’s already passing the responsibility off onto Nico?
In the lounge, Mia is giving Luna more popular-girl lessons. Luna’s sweater is pretty cute, I gotta say.
Mia shoots down my taste in fashion and tells Luna that she should start wearing more revealing clothing and showing off her assets. Exhibit A: Mia pulls down the front of her top to show her cleavage and is like, “And then you’ll bring all the boys to the yard!” An excellent time for Lujan to come by and loudly announce that Nico’s watching them! Mia starts berating him for perving on her, but Nico quickly covers and says he was actually stalking Luna. He runs off and Mia and Lujan start teasing Luna that Nico liiiiikes her. Luna’s not entirely opposed to the idea.
Nacho’s sad trailer. Pablo’s kicking his shit over, demanding to know where Marizza is. He decides to use Nacho to lay a trap for her, and tries to get him to call Marizza and lure her to the trailer. Nacho says he doesn’t know Marizza’s number and Pablo says, “Fine, then I’ll just text her.” But if…Pablo can text her…then…doesn’t he have her number? Can’t he just dial it and give the phone to Nacho? Whatever.
Dunoff sends Pilar off to look for her mom, so that they can continue discussing the best way to marry Pilar off to one of the rich kids. Mama Dunoff is playing pool with Mansilla, and naturally Pilar walks in just as Mansilla is contrivedly showing Mama D how to hold the pool cue (dirty!). Mama D leaves and Pilar snaps at Mansilla that she hates him for real.
Manuel and Nico are reading the files in the basement room, for some reason. Nico is — I think not unjustifiably — freaked out that the Society’s going to catch them, but Manuel’s like, “No, we must read these down here, for reasons.” Nico tells him that, meanwhile, he has learned jack from spying on Mia, and now she wants to hook him and Luna up. Manuel thinks that’s hilarious. I’m not 100% sure what happens next — Manuel starts a small fire and tapes a note to the stair railing, and then he and Nico scram. I’m not sure if they set some of the papers on fire or what.
Marizza’s room. Luna writes a letter to Flor, squealing that she thinks she likes Nico back. I mean, I guess I can see why, as he’s the only guy at school without gross emotional problems and/or a history of violence, but have the two of them ever even talked before? Anyway, Mia comes in, shrieking that her mom’s letter is missing, but Luna reveals that she was holding on to it because it upset Mia. I feel like it should bother Mia that Luna just took the letter without telling her, but it doesn’t. Mia reads the letter and cries (again). She tells Luna that Papa C lied, and Mama C wasn’t happy with them at all. Now, why would Papa C do a thing like that?
Mama Dunoff finds Pilar in the cafeteria and tells her that there’s nothing going on between her and Mansilla. Pilar cries that their pool cue shenanigans had hella phallic imagery, and even if they are just friends, everyone’s still going to make fun of her — it’s bad enough that she’s the principal’s daughter, but now her mom is besties with their teacher. Will the humiliation never end? Mama D says that she loves Pilar more than anything, and Pilar snaps that she should prove it and stop hanging out with Mansilla. Drama!
Speaking of the pool table, Nico is reenacting Mia’s sexy walk for Manuel. “You’ve got some drool,” Manuel says. Heh.
Nico says he thinks Mia is planning on using her methods on Joaquin. And speaking of which! Joaquin and Luna both show up. Weirdly, Luna tells them that Mia is feeling a little down, but seeing Joaquin should perk her up. Doesn’t Luna know that Marizza’s trying to get with him too? Why is she encouraging this? Anyway, Manuel realizes that if Mia is hanging with Luna, her room must be empty. They both run off to go rifle through her stuff with impunity. Manuel conveniently finds the box of Mama C’s stuff right away. Meanwhile, Nico is keeping lookout for him. Luna comes up and invites him to have lunch with her. Nico kind of looks at the door, then back at Luna, and lets himself be dragged off by her. Hijinks!
Mia goes to the lounge on Luna’s order, and Joaquin immediately starts hitting on her. “You have such nice perfume,” Joaquin tells her. “It’s a fruit scent from Paris,” she smoothes. He tell her that he has to go to dinner with the Dunoffs tonight, but after that, he wants to mack it with her. Mia’s like, “For sure, I’ve already forgotten about my dead mother and broken family.”
Nacho’s sad trailer. Marizza shows up to ask Nacho about “his” text, but Pablo reveals that it was he who sent it! Scare chord! Marizza is snarky about ditching him at lunch, but Pablo tells her that he still has dinner with his parents tonight, so she better show up to that. Marizza is not pleased.
Some hallway. Manuel calls Papa C to report on the day’s Mia findings. He’s hella conspicuous about it. Like, at least pretend you’re having a normal conversation, Manuel! Anyway, he tells Papa C about Joaquin, and that he found a box from a “Marina Caceres.” Weirdly, there is no scare chord. Papa C seems pretty chill about all this information, which might be where Mia gets the idea that he doesn’t give a shit about what she does.
The not-library. Joaquin’s lit some candles and also artfully arranged some books around the seating area. Did he pull those off the shelves? I guess it makes sense that Joaquin doesn’t care about books. After the brainpower he’s displayed in this episode, I’m kind of wondering if he can even read. Anyway, Mia shows up and he makes out with her. Mia is not into it at all:
He literally tells her that he wants to make out with her, I don’t know what she was expecting him to do.
I realize this is the second post that ends with a terrible screencap of Luisana Lopilato. Rough luck!
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