GOD, this episode was long. Let’s get moving.
Opening monologue: I’ll admit to only partially paying attention to this =/ Uh…blah blah blah I’d exchange a lot of stuff for other stuff, but I don’t know what I’d give you for a kiss, because I am a hormonal teenager and making out with my classmates is my #1 priority. I think that’s close enough.
Anyway, we pick up where we left off. Manuel tells Mia that he has something VERY IMPORTANT to say (is it that he wants to murder her father?), but then Guido shows up and cockblocks them. Mia’s all annoyed with his existence and stomps off, and Guido gets all up in Manuel’s face about how Mia is HIS property and how dare Manuel talk to her, and Manuel’s like au contraire, she’s not FOR you! Poor dumb Guido is left to ponder what that means.
Casa Colucci. Papa C is not happy that Mercedes spilled all the beans to Mia, and Mercedes wails that Mia told her that it was A-okay with Papa C, and she tricked her into it! “I swear I didn’t know! Don’t you believe me?” she asks. Papa C’s like, “I mean, I yelled at you for like five minutes to stay out of it so…not really.”
“How can I tell if my girlfriend is a telenovela villain?”
We also left off on someone walking into the sad trailer, and Marizza acted SHOCKED by their arrival. It’s Sonia, to the surprise of no one. She grovels about how Marizza’s her daughter and she’ll always choose her over Mia…and yes, she did come to talk to Mia, but she won’t do it if Marizza will disown her! (Except she probably will anyway.) I think the mother/daughter relationship between Sonia and Marizza is usually pretty nice, but it’d be nicer if Marizza gave a little about her own insecurities re: Mia, instead of just letting Sonia grovel. Whatever. Anyway, Sonia wants Marizza to go back to school and stop sleeping in an abandoned trailer, and Marizza is huffy about it.
Mansilla takes Lulu to a restaurant. A tango performance starts and Lulu’s like, “IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL” and starts crying. Mansilla maneuvers his way backstage and gets them to invite Lulu onstage for a performance, and we get an extended scene of her actress showing off. (By the way, the Spanish wiki has a section in the infobox for whether or not her boobs are real. GROSS.) When she gets offstage, Lulu’s like, “Omg, that was like one of my dreams!” Ah, I get it, Mansilla and Lulu aren’t going to date, he’s going to fix her life problems like she’s one of his students. Or maybe not, since she kisses him (possibly on the cheek, possibly not), and he looks a little perturbed.
Manuel sneaks into Mia’s room, as usual. I just realized, Mia’s the only one that gets to paint her room. What’s up with that? Anyway, he wakes her up and they’re all lovey-dovey and sappy for a while. It’s cute, I guess, but have they talked about their issues yet at all? Whatever. Blah blah they can’t be together blah, but Manuel’s like, “Dude, I totally wanna tell everyone we’ve made out.” They babble on some more about how they pretended to hate each other but really they liked each other. “This isn’t smart, and it’s dangerous,” Manuel says. What? It’s a high school relationship, Manuel.
The next day. Vico and Lujan are still thinking over their Blas investigation. They can’t leave the school because of their families (or lack thereof). WHAT TO DO. Mia and Feli leave the classroom and note that Vico and Lujan are hanging out. Mia’s like, “Ugh, I’m having a good day, let’s not ruin it by discussing this.” Hee. Feli points out that when she last saw Mia, she was all upset over Papa C, and Mia’s like, “I don’t HAVE a father anymore! He’s dead to me!” A good time for Papa C himself to show up! Mia snaps that she doesn’t want to hear anymore of his LIES and storms off. Feli flashes him an awkward smile and runs off after her.
The way she imitates Mia’s way of saying “Daddy” is pretty funny, too. Angeles Balbiani is underrated as far as this show goes, tbh.
Guido and Pablo try to talk Tomás out of dating Fernanda, and he’s like, “She will set me on FIRE, dudes.” Not really, but I am curious as to how Fernanda got this bad reputation, seeing as no one besides Vico seems to know about her arsonist past.
Papa C approaches Manuel about stalking Mia over the Mama C issue, and Manuel’s like, “Whoa, this crosses a line even for me.” He tells Papa C that this is something he has to handle himself and Papa C’s like, “You’re right, and taking advice from a 17-year-old is definitely what I need to do.” Then Manuel fucks it right up by mentioning that Mia was staying with Sonia, and Papa C predictably blows his top. He catches Sonia sneaking around the halls looking for Mia, and drags her outside to yell at her. It’s the same fight that they’ve had a million times before, except this time, Sonia mentions that Mama C abandoned him and Papa C’s like, “NOBODY’S EVER ABANDONED ME!”
At least 50% of these situations end up with someone’s body getting dumped in a lake, you feel me?
Sonia somehow still wants to help him, and advises that he should talk to Mia. Papa C snaps that she’s a human disaster and he’s not interested in taking advice from her.
Classroom. Pilar’s crying while Luna comforts her, then Lujan rocks up and is like, “Yo, get outta my seat.” Heh. No sympathy from that corner. Mia walks in and is mildly flirty with Manuel, which Nico immediately picks up on: “She was looking at you with ONDA! Something is up!” Manuel doesn’t say a word, but Nico figures it out anyway:
You know, I think Feli and Nico are genuinely the funniest characters. I really like them.
Marizza makes her dramatic entrance, and everyone immediately forgets class is happening and starts climbing all over her. She’s not that important, guys. Pablo tries to talk to her, and Marizza kicks him into the desks. Hee! He kind of had that coming, to be honest.
Cafeteria. Vico’s all downtrodden that she and Lujan can’t leave the school over the weekend to investigate. Didn’t they just have this conversation? Whatever. Blas walks in and as he passes by, Lujan’s all like, “SO HOW ABOUT THAT RICARDO FARA, EH?” He whips around all “WHAT DID YOU SAY” and she BSes that she just made that name up for a dialogue she and Vico are doing. Lujan gets the idea to ask her tutor about Blas, and she and Vico are all excited. Aw! I’m really living for this friendship, even though I’m sure it’ll be forgotten as soon as this subplot is over.
Mia meets Guido in the map room and tries to break up with him. It doesn’t work, obviously, because the map room’s only for making out. I don’t know where they’d have to go to break up. That one bench outside the school? The main hall? I think Joaquin’s dumped Pilar in both those places. Anyway, Mia tries to tell him they should take a break, and Guido’s like, “Shh, stop saying words.”
Later, she wails to Feli that she couldn’t just dump him. “With that face, and those eyes, it tore me apart!” she says. Heh. It’s just Guido, Mia, who gives a shit. “You’re obviously going to have to help me,” she tells Feli. Hee. Feli sighs: “What do I have to do?” Also hee. Then Papa C rocks up and is like, “You are going to listen to me whether you want to or not!” He drags Mia off to her room, and he’s like, “What I told you was true, from a certain point of view.” He tells Mia that he doesn’t believe Mama C ever cheated on him or liked rock music, and Mia’s like, “Yeah…literally everyone else in the world including two newspapers says otherwise.” She tells Papa C that he’s lying to himself, and she can see why Mama C left such a closed-off person. Man. That’s a burn, Papa C.
Marizza tries to break up with Marcos, but he literally runs away from her. Marizza huffs that everyone is abandoning her — first Sonia, now Marcos. Luna’s like, “But hey, Pablo still wants to talk to you,” and Marizza’s like, “Well I don’t want to talk to him! I don’t want to see his STUPID FACE EVER AGAIN!” Luna suggests that maybe Marizza is upset because Pablo is going out with Paula now, and Marizza’s like, “I don’t care what he does! I am TOTALLY OVER HIM!”
She is not totally over him. Just sayin’. Anyway, Luna points out that Marizza will indeed have to see Pablo’s stupid face again, because they’re going to have band practice tomorrow.
Marizza’s room. Lujan goes looking for her laptop, and realizes that it’s gone. She finds a note, presumably from her tutor, that they’re gonna replace it on account of Marcos breaking it (even though I thought he fixed it?). Lujan flips out that her tutor was HERE, in the school, and that means Gloria must have seen him (or her). Marizza and Lujan scramble off to go ask her, and try to butter her up with feeble compliments about her hair. They’re like, “Gloria, are you European? Because you’re so elegant, like a European.” Gloria’s like, “Well, I am part-Italian.” Dude, so is everyone else in Argentina. Then they’re like, “So what about Lujan’s tutor, huh, I hear he thinks you and your Europeanness are hella sexy.” Gloria immediately cottons on to what they’re doing and kicks them out of the office. Hee.
Mia walks sadly through the hall, with sad piano music in the background to remind us how sad she really is. She’s so sad she can’t hold herself upright and keeps bumping into the wall. Fernanda rocks up and thanks Mia for hooking her up with Tomás. She really should be thanking Vico, for putting the fear of God in Tomás’s heart. Then Tomás shows up and is like, “Actually, I wanna break up.” Fernanda’s like, “Let’s make out instead,” and Tomás is like, “K.” Man, this is exactly what happened with Vico.
Music montage (to “Te soñé”, which — actually, I think that’s Mia and Manuel’s theme song, so unless they mack it to something else, I’m going to stop mentioning it) of Mia and Manuel being all twitterpated all over school. They sneak into the cupboard under the stairs to make out, and Mia emos to him about Papa C. Manuel’s like, “You know, he feels real bad about the whole lying to you for your entire life thing,” and Mia’s like, “Whatever, let’s not talk about this while we’re getting freaky.” Manuel wants to tell everyone that they’re dating, but Mia says it’ll upset a whole ton of people — Julieta, Feli…”Guido?” Manuel suggests. Mia’s like, “Oh fuck, I forgot to break up with Guido.”
Teachers’ lounge. Lulu walks in and Mansilla asks her how she’s doing. “Better now that I’ve seen you,” she says. Aw, they’re besties now! See, no one can resist Mansilla and his fix-it powers. She shows Mansilla a paper that I’m guessing she wrote, and he muses that it’s very good. I don’t know what it’s meant to be, but it brings up how Lulu’s dream is to join a dance company and travel the world, and Mansilla’s like, “You’ll never forgive yourself for not following your dreams!” and Lulu’s all inspired and shit.
Marizza’s room. Luna tries to bring up Pablo again, and Marizza’s like, “We will never speak of my foolishness over a male member of the species again! And what about you and Nico, huh?” Luna’s like, “Fuck Nico! Except sometimes…when I look at him…I just wanna hold him…” and Marizza’s like, “No! You must crush him into dust, as we should with all men!” Lujan’s like, “Yeah, speaking of crushing people into dust, have you talked to Marcos yet?” Marizza says she hasn’t, but when she does she’s definitely breaking up with him, and Lujan’s like, “But he’s gonna be so sad!” Whatever, Marcos should be used to rejection by now, amirite? Then Marcos himself knocks at the door, and holy shit you guys, MARCOS HAS GIVEN HIMSELF A MAKEOVER.
I can’t believe we were deprived of a makeover montage 🙁 I was gonna link to the makeover song and everything!
He’s like, “I look silly, huh?” and Lujan’s like, “Damn no, you are HELLA FINE.” Marizza rolls her eyes at that, bless her.
Marizza tells Marcos that they have to talk, and they hustle off to the lounge. She can’t get a word in edgewise, though, because Marcos keeps babbling on about how much he loves her and how happy he is to be going out with her. AWKWARD. Marizza tries to spit it out, but she starts coughing and Marcos is like, “Let me get you a drink, because I wanna be a good boyfriend and take care of you!” AWKWARD X2. While he’s gone, Pablo and Facundo rock up in THE CREEPIEST WAY EVER.
That is the smile of someone who sneaks up on girls in horror movies.
Pablo’s like, “Alright, Facundo, let’s clear this thing up. Marizza and I are broken up, so you two can date and get married and have babies, whatever. Do your thing, man.” Facundo’s like, “So how about it?” and Marizza’s like, “Wow, no, that was the least appealing way to get asked out that I can think of.” Then Marcos comes back and she tells them that, in fact, she’s dating Marcos now. She kisses him and Marcos basically has a heart attack.
Casa Colucci. Papa C’s being emo with a bottle of liquor, and when Peter comes in and tells him Mercedes is calling, Papa C says, “Tell her I’m not here.” “Is there anything I can do for you?” Peter asks, and Papa C’s like, “No…just leave me alone to cry manly tears.” He says that only Sonia Rey can help him now!
Back at school, Mia enlists Feli to break up with Guido for her, because she doesn’t have the heart to do it to his face. I love how Mia’s suddenly developed a conscience when it comes to Guido, of all people. Anyway, Feli agrees to do it and runs off to find Guido. Then Augusto arrives! I bet her clingy jealous boyfriend won’t misinterpret her talk with Guido at all! Just kidding, that’s exactly what happens. Feli tells Guido Mia wants to break up with him, and he’s like, “But…but…my creepy obsession with her.” Feli…hugs him? I think? It’s hard to tell if she’s doing it on purpose or not. Either way, Augusto catches them and is like, “I knew there was another guy! You were dieting for Guido! You made me wear the horns and I never want to see you again!!!” Feli’s all sad, but I think she dodged a bullet, tbh.
Meanwhile, Mia goes to the Erreway rehearsal in Feli’s stead. Are they still pretending Feli’s in that band? It’s the Mia show and they all know it. Marizza and Pablo snipe at each other until Nico tells them to shut up, and then they start singing “Sera porque te quiero.” I wonder if it was awkward for Nico’s actor to be fifth wheelin’ it in the band scenes.
In the lounge, Vico and Lujan google stuff about Ricardo Fara, in what I think is the greatest scene this show has given us so far. Vico’s all confused as to how they’re going to find out who Ricardo Fara is, and Lujan’s like, “Look, we’re going to use a newfangled program on the computer.” They go to Altavista(!!!!!) and Lujan’s like, “You can put in the name of a person, and the computer will find what you’re looking for.” The future is now, you guys!
AMAZING.
Vico’s like, “Look at all this information!” (HEE!) They find something and gasp in shock. Say it with me: “NO PUEDE SER!”
Sonia shows up to Casa Colucci. “Are you sure he meant to call me?” she asks Peter. Peter’s like, “Idk man, he must be real fucked up.” Sonia goes to see Papa C, and he is WASTED.
She manages to call him “Colucci”, and he says, “Please, call me Culocci!” Heh. Well, the tone of this scene has taken a bizarre turn. Papa C tells her that she was right and he’s losing Mia, then he puts on the radio and they start dancing. Then they make out, to the surprise of absolutely no one.
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