Opening monologue: I’m afraid of change, but it’s the only way to grow. Fair enough.
Speaking of change, and the actual progressions of the relationships that come with it: Sonia and Papa C are still making out. Sonia freaks out and leaves, but not before putting Papa C to bed, while he warbles on about how much he liiiiikes her. And this will be in no way awkward tomorrow!
Meanwhile, in Manuel’s room, Nico’s being all smug over Mia and Manuel finally getting together. Maybe like me, he’s wasted 73 hours of his life on this show and is happy to finally be getting some payoff.
He’s all like, “You totally like her, and something totally happened between you.” Manuel’s like, “How dare you, nothing is happening, and we are DEFINITELY NOT making out.” Nico’s interrogation is interrupted by Marcos, and they’re like, “Marcos, you gave yourself a makeover! You’re conventionally attractive and have tragic early 2000s fashion sense like the rest of us now!” Manuel tries to high five him, and Marcos jumps away, shrieking, “Don’t hit me!” Hey, backstories aren’t supposed to show up in the post-makeover afterglow.
The rest of the school is being emo over their respective relationship dramas. Marizza asks Lujan for the millionth time if Lujan is absolutely positive she’s cool with Marizza dating Marcos, and for the millionth time, Lujan martyrs herself for Marcos’s happiness. I think it’s stupid that Marizza doesn’t want to date Marcos, and Lujan clearly doesn’t want Marizza to date Marcos, so they’re basically just doing this so he can be happy. In Pablo’s room, Tomás is fretting over how to break up with Fernanda, as he doesn’t want to hurt her feelings. Pablo’s like, “Pfft, hurting girls’ feelings is no big, just look at me and Marizza.” They note that Guido’s still asleep, and homoerotically wrestle him awake.
I feel like there’s a Greek statue like this somewhere.
Guido cries to them that Mia sent Feli to dump him, and he just wants to lie in bed and listen to Linkin Park or whatever. Pablo and Tomás are like, “Dang, this is sad.” Aw, they really like Guido, you guys!
Feli’s also lying in bed and crying over Augusto, while Vico tries to snap her out of it. She’s like, “I told you my brother was a douche.” She tries to get Feli to get up and do something fun with her (aw, Vico cares!), but Feli just wants to lie in bed and eat her feelings all day.
Mia and Manuel meet up in the cupboard under the stairs, for some pre-class making out. Mia’s like, “So I totally outsourced breaking up with Guido to Feli, brilliant plan, right?” Manuel’s like, “Man, that was a dick move. You can’t just hurt people like that. Like, not even Guido.” Heh. Mia’s like, “Whoa…are you like saying…that other people’s feelings matter?” Manuel’s like, “Yes, and you’re much hotter when you’re not being a sociopath.” Mia seems to be considering it.
Blas is dicking around the teachers’ lounge, pretty much for no reason since we all know he doesn’t do any actual work. Gloria comes in and tells him that someone (“a young lady”) called, asking Blas about Ricardo Fara. Blas blows his top and gets all unnecessarily violent with Gloria, because how dare she pass him a message about that name! Then, because jumping one of his coworkers isn’t enough, he goes out and gets handsy with Lujan, one of the kids under his care. SOMEONE INVESTIGATE THIS SCHOOL ALREADY.
Lujan’s not afraid of him anymore, though; she’s all smug now that she knows Blas has something to do with Ricardo Fara. And all he has for proof is that he overheard Lujan saying the name in the cafeteria, so what does he have to go on? “See ya, señor Heredia,” she says as she flounces off. It’s kind of funny, but my God, don’t poke the creepy overly violent teacher, Lujan!
The next day at Casa Colucci, where it is awkward. Papa C asks Peter what he did last night, and Peter’s like, “Oh yeah, Sonia came over and you guys were dancing some salsa together, it looked super fun!” Peter’s really not great at reading his boss, is he? Papa C wails that he’s gonna have to go apologize to Sonia or something. Just then, Mercedes rocks in and wants to do something together. Papa C’s apparently completely forgotten his suspicions about her, because he’s all sad about shooting her down, as he has to go find Sonia. Not that he tells Mercedes that.
School lounge. Mia finds Guido and breaks up with him properly this time — Guido gets overexcited at first and is like, “I knew you didn’t mean that stuff with Feli! You would never break up with me!” Mia has to let him down gently all, “Guido, you’re not a main character, and I think you know that in your heart.” She tells him that she likes someone else, which Nico overhears. Who could this mysterious other person be! Guido, meanwhile, is pretty graceful about the breakup. He’s really growing as a person, guys!
Going back to class, Mia passes Vico sitting with Lujan and Marizza. Vico jumps away and is like, “I swear I’m not hanging out with another clique!” Stick to the status quo and all that. Mia’s too twitterpated to mind, and plants kisses on both Marizza and Lujan. Hee!
Vico tells Mia that she should try to talk Feli out of bed, and Mia’s all ready to run off, then Blas shows up and shoos them all off to class. Mia asks if she can just check on Feli, but Blas is like, “NO! I am a teacher and I command you to go to class right now! God my penis is small.“
Everyone goes to class. Pablo mocks Marcos and Marizza as they walk in, and Marcos flips his shit and pins Pablo to the wall all, “I’ll break your face! I’m not a nerd anymore and I will fight you like a guy who wears a T-shirt instead of sweater vests would!”
“I see you’re wearing a button-down, that means you’re WEAK.”
Mansilla comes in like, “What up guys, I’m finally back to teaching instead of fixing everyone’s life problems!” And yet, he still does not actual teaching here, because Lulu waltzes into the middle of his class and announces that she’s leaving Elite Way. Man, they’ve gone through two dance teachers in about as many months. Lulu says she’d like to thank a special person for ~inspiring~ her to follow her dreams, and Tomás is like, “Omg, that’s totally me! Our two walks together were LIFE-CHANGING!” Nope, it’s Mansilla, and Lulu kisses him on the mouth, in front of the entire class. All the boys are crushed, and Mansilla looks kind of confused.
After class, Luna goes to the cafeteria to passive-aggressively not tell Sandra that Pilar’s pregnant. Literally, she does not tell her anything of worth and Sandra’s like, “Okay, whatever.” That was pointless. Well, I guess it served for Nico to come in and be like, “Ooh, Luna, are you telling Sandra THE SECRET? Because I am totally also in on THE SECRET?” I think Nico’s naive if he thinks there’s only one secret in this school right now. They have a whole confusing conversation where Nico thinks Luna’s talking about Mia and Manuel and Luna thinks he’s talking about Pilar, until Luna mentions the pregnancy and Nico’s like, “WHOA, MIA’S PREGNANT?” Way to tell the whole cafeteria! Luna has to tell him like five times that Mia’s not pregnant, it’s Pilar, P-I-L-A-R. Nico’s like, “Whoa…that was not the secret I was expecting.” Nevertheless, he offers to help out, and Luna’s all twitterpated. Luna asks Pilar if she wants to go party her problems away and Pilar agrees, so Nico decides to let them into his club. Ah, to be 15 years old and the proprietor of a nightclub serving alcohol.
Mama D finds Mansilla in the teachers’ lounge and is like, “What up, I hear you were being inappropriate with someone besides me.” Just kidding. She’s all passive-aggressively emo until Mansilla asks her what’s wrong. I’m glad everyone around Pilar is spreading her pregnancy all around the school.
Back in the cafeteria, Pablo’s bragging to Tomás and Guido about how he’s the only one without girl troubles, so he’s going to meet up with Paula tonight and get hella laid. Nico rolls up and is like, “No can do, Erreway’s gotta play the club tonight.” I think he calls Tatiana and she tells him the band should play? I don’t know. Pablo’s like, “But my penis!”
Papa C goes to the theater to see Sonia, and Mercedes follows him and watches from her car suspiciously. That’s the kind of trust relationships should be built on. Papa C apologizes to Sonia, and she’s like, “Aha! I knew you couldn’t resist me!” He insists he was drunk, and Sonia gets all snippy and shoos him out. After he leaves, Mercedes storms in and is all, “Stay away from my boyfriend!” Sonia snarks that Mercedes is losing her grip on Papa C, what with him making out with other women and dancing salsa with them and all. Mercedes is all, “As if!” I bet all her clients are really happy she took time off from their cases to get into a catfight.
The cafeteria. I just realized Manuel’s wearing the orange pants again 🙁 When will they burn?? Nico muses that maybe Pilar shouldn’t come to the club after all, since the band is playing and people might not show up if they think Pilar will snitch on them. Luna snaps back to being pissed at Nico and tells him that he’s being selfish and she and Pilar will just party elsewhere! Yeah, they could go to that other club that lets teenagers in and doesn’t card them for alcohol. Meanwhile, over at Pablo’s table, Fernanda rocks up and tells Tomás they should go out tonight; Tomás tells her he’s going to the club. Fernanda’s like, “Fine, whatever,” and walks away. Tomás is like, “Was that weird? That was weird.” Nico pops over from his table and is like, “Yup, that was weird.” Hee. Pablo’s like, “Hey, we haven’t talked about me getting laid tonight since five minutes ago.” WHATEVER, PABLO.
Vico and Mia are still trying to convince Feli to get out of bed. Augusto’s not picking up his phone, and finally Mia’s like, “Vico, you gotta tell us where he might be, because Feli’s going to dehydrate herself from crying soon.” Vico heaves a sigh and says that Augusto goes to his friend’s bar sometimes. Why does everyone on this show own a drinking establishment? Mia has to go to perform with Erreway in Feli’s stead, as usual, so Vico agrees to take Feli to the bar to see Augusto. Don’t do it, Feli! You’ve escaped! Leave your boyfriend who looked weirdly like my high school physics teacher, and never look back!
Mansilla finds Dunoff being sad in the same place he was a few episodes ago. Has he just not moved in all that time? Anyway, Mansilla’s like, “Even you cannot escape me and my good advice!”
Marizza, Lujan, and Luna walk into Marizza’s room and see a new laptop for Lujan sitting on her bed. Ominous scare chord! So ominous it warrants an electric guitar! Lujan’s all freaked out that her tutor was in her room again (maybe they should let them lock their doors!), and Luna promises to help her investigate. After all, Luna’s staying in on account of Nico being a douche. “What’d he do now?” Marizza snaps. Hee.
At Facundo’s apartment, Paula’s getting ready for a night of statutory sexing with Pablo. He shows up and tells her that he can’t stay all night, as he has to play the club, and Paula gets all offended. How very dare he! She was GOING to make dinner! So…she hasn’t made it yet? What’s the deal? Pablo says she should come and watch him perform and then they can party together, but Paula’s all pissed off.
Marizza finds Marcos being a nerd in the chem room. He’s got a notebook and is copying stuff off the chart on the wall or whatever. Marizza’s like, “Stop that immediately, you are conventionally attractive now and you can’t like science anymore.” Marcos is like, “Whatever you say!” and throws his notes away. Love yourself, Marcos. Marizza invites him to the club and he hedges a bit, before giving in because he’s literally incapable of saying no to Marizza. But first, he has to go home and get some stuff. Do you think this might prevent him from coming to the club at all? I bet it could. He departs, and Marizza hangs her head. Lujan comes in and for the millionth and one time, asks if she’s okay with all this. Marizza says she’s just nervous about singing again after so long, and Lujan’s like, “Or…are you nervous about singing with Pablo?” Marizza’s like, “How dare you, I am VERY HAPPY with Marcos! So happy! THANKS FOR SETTING US UP, LUJAN!” Lujan’s like, “…ouch.”
Mia and Manuel are making out in the sad trailer. Manuel drops an “I love you” on her, and Mia immediately says “I love you” right back. Oh. Well, that takes all the drama out of it. They keep making out, and Manuel slides his hand up her shirt (on the back. He doesn’t go for a boob yet). Mia completely freaks out and runs away. Oh, there’s the drama I was expecting. Mia runs like, all the way across town to see Sonia and panics to her that she made out with Manuel and now she’s scared. Sonia’s immediately like, “You’re scared of your feelings!” No, Sonia, I think she was afraid of Manuel copping a feel. Just kidding, Mia’s like, “Omg, that’s exactly it! Thanks for explaining it to me!” Sonia advises that Mia should tell Manuel that she’s not ready for second base, and if Manuel really likes her, he’ll understand. Good advice that she could’ve just gotten from an American Girl book. I can’t believe she cut school and came all the way across town for this. Buenos Aires must have a radius of like half a mile.
We switch to a bizarre scene of Luna and Pilar about to leave school, all dolled up for the club. I thought Luna wasn’t going, on account of Nico being a jerk? And Pilar was probably not going on account of being uninvited? I guess they’re going to another club. I don’t know how Luna is gonna help Lujan out, then. Whatever, who cares. The padres Dunoff intercept them, and I guess Dunoff had his obligatory inspiring talk with Mansilla, because he very emotionally apologizes to Pilar and suggests that they do something as a family tonight. Pilar’s not too happy; she’s like, “Oh, NOW you want to hang out with me?” Fair enough. Dunoff’s like, “I mean, this is more effort than I usually put into running this school, so you should take it when you can get it.”
Lujan steals a copy of the school guard’s logbook and finds that the only person who’s entered Elite Way today is an “Alejandro Rosetti.” She’s like, “This must be my tutor! He’s the only one that was here!” Unless…her tutor is someone already in the school? COULD THAT BE? It totally could.
Marcos comes back to school and gets ready for the club, by putting on the stupidest hat ever.
I think I have a human right not to see that hat, and that right has been violated.
It’s probably a good thing that the Society jumps him as soon as he leaves the room, to spare him the embarrassment of being seen at the club in that hat. I guess they’re going to torture him while he wears it. The indignity!
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