Opening monologue: There are deep loves that we’d do anything for, but they bring lots of heartbreak. But the heartbreak is worth it to feel love like that.
Marizza’s just dropped in on Sonia’s date, and as ever, she’s all offended that Sonia’s dating a guy who’s appropriate for her age but way too old for Marizza. She immediately tries to throw salt all over Sonia’s game by telling Luca that she has to work as a waitress because Sonia is stingy and won’t give her money. Actually, I think that would reflect pretty well on Sonia, re: making sure Marizza has a work ethic and isn’t a spoiled brat. But I guess it’s kind of late for that. Anyway, Marizza goes overboard trying to imply that her mom’s really old, and Luca’s like, “Well, I am kind of also old, so…” Marizza successfully maneuvers herself into their date and spends the whole time trying to cockblock Luca and Sonia.
Meanwhile, at Casa Tomás, Mama Tomás is trying to delicately poke around the possibility that Guido is not really Mama Guido’s son. Frankly, I’d be thrilled at the opportunity to disown Guido, but Mama Guido is a better person than I am. Mama Tomás asks how Guido was born (weird), and Mama Guido says she had a C-section. So Guido is fated to kill Macbeth? Is that what we’re doing here? Mama Guido says she couldn’t have any more kids because of the C-section, but she loves Guido and she’s very proud of him. She shouldn’t be. Mama Tomás is like, “That’s nice, because he totally told Tomás that you’re crazy.” Oh, man, the betrayal 🙁 Guido’s adorable mom doesn’t deserve this!
:(((((((
Guido comes back in and Mama Guido’s like, “You know what? I’m gonna tell you the truth. Guido was right, I am crazy!” WHAT. Don’t throw yourself under the bus for your douchey son, Mama Guido! When they leave, though, she ices him out and goes home alone. Well, I hope he feels like a total penis now.
Manuel calls his mom and tells him that Mia’s invitation was just a joke. He’s like, “Haha, why would anyone named Colucci be calling you? That’s just ridiculous!” Mia walks in on this and is like, “Why is it so weird that someone with my last name called your mom?” She snaps at him to come find her when he’s ready to tell the truth and stop being so weird. Also, bizarrely, Manuel’s like, “I’m doing fine, Mom! Haven’t you read my letters?” Bullshit, Manuel, you’ve never written her any letters, or indeed even mentioned her since the first episode.
Music montage of Sonia and Luca’s date, with Marizza tagging uncomfortably along. I’m sure Luca will turn out to be a douche in some way, per the Telenovela Love Interest Convention of 1973, but he’s a pretty good sport about his date’s cranky and kind of pervy teenage daughter following them around.
Luna finds Mia in her room, and gushes to her about how she’s made up with Nico. “It must be nice to be in love,” Mia emos. Hee. She swears Luna to secrecy and then spills the events of episode 71 to now. Luna’s all happy for them, but Mia cries that she doesn’t think she’s good enough for Manuel, on account of fucking up by calling his mom. No, Mia, you’re perfect and I love you! Don’t let that douchebag make you doubt yourself! She asks Luna to help her be a better person, so Manuel will love her. DAMMIT, MIA 🙁
Meanwhile, at some park — aw, shit, is that Nacho?
Fuck.
Goddammit, it is. Why must this episode depress me so much? Anyway, Nacho’s hanging out with Pepa, when someone beckons to him from the bushes. By all means, Nacho, go talk to them! It turns out to be Nacho’s brother, who I don’t recall from episode 1 very well but I don’t think he was that old?
Wasn’t this dude meant to be in high school when we last saw him? Do I care enough to go rewatch episode 1 to find out?
Anyway, Nacho’s older brother has escaped from jail and is back to see him. He makes fun of Nacho for being dressed like a normal nine-year-old, and for getting rid of his edgy orphanage clothes. If I’m recalling correctly, the orphanage dressed Nacho like Little Lord Fauntleroy. Older Brother is planning to get back into the crime game, and he wants Nacho to help him out. Nacho reluctantly agrees, and goes back to get some money out of Pepa. She’s smart for about half a second, and tells him she’ll buy him whatever he needs on her card, but then he throws a fit that he needs cash, and she hands it over without a fight. I guess if she learned to parent from Sonia, this was to be expected, but still.
Speaking of Sonia, she and Luca put an end to their date, and Luca heads back up into his building. Sonia picks up that Marizza’s trying to get into Luca’s pants, and says that he’s old enough to be Marizza’s father. Marizza does not like that at all, and Sonia quickly changes the topic to avoid a fight. She suggests that they go out and eat, and Marizza can tell her about the band. Marizza’s like, “Normal mother-daughter bonding! Surely you jest!” and runs off to go back to school. Luca rocks back up out of nowhere and is like, “Now that your daughter’s gone, wanna make out?”
Manuel lies on his bed, emoing out and flashbacking to all the time he and Mia’s made out. Remember episode 12? That was so long ago. Then he flashbacks all the way to a shot of him and his dad playing together that I think we saw back in the first episode. Man, all these throwbacks to episode 1 are making me nostalgic. He goes to find Mia at the vending machine (bizarrely, no extended shot of her eating whatever product placement she buys) and is like, “Okay, I am going to tell you the truth. What’s about to come out of my mouth is absolutely not a lie.” The reason he told his mom Mia wasn’t a Colucci was because…the Coluccis are really rich, and the Aguirres are really poor, and his mom would feel awkward about taking their charity. That’s totally it. He apologizes to Mia and makes her promise not to call his mom again. SUSPICIOUS! I get that Mia’s totally dickmatized, but she’s usually a better girl detective than this.
Nico and Luna PDA and gossip about Mia and Manuel. Oh, Mia. Never trust Luna with a secret, unless you’re cool with her spilling it to Nico five minutes later. Luna’s like, “Omg, Mia totally doesn’t think she’s good enough for Manuel!” and Nico’s like, “Pfft, he’s pissy for a totally different reason. Which I can’t tell you. Whoops.” Hee. Okay, not going to lie, I kind of missed Nico and Luna cluelessly spilling all their friends’ secrets to each other. Luna crawls all over him to try to get him to tell, and he ends up running away. Heh. Poor dumb Nico.
Guido calls his house, and finds out that Mama Guido isn’t speaking to him. Papa Guido wants to know when their son is gonna come visit them and Guido’s like, “I still haven’t learned my lesson about being ashamed of you guys so…probably never.” Also, wait, how are the Lassens poor? That looks like a nice house behind them:
I don’t have a whole hallway just for my phone, is all I’m saying.
Papa Guido tells Mama Guido not to worry about Guido; he has the personality of a winner and he’ll have a good future at Elite Way. “At what price?” Mama Guido ominouses.
It’s crazy how much Papa Guido looks like him, by the way.
Marizza and Lujan go back to their room, and they see that Marcos has come back and left Marizza a love letter and a stuffed monkey on her bed. Marizza’s all twitterpated, but she also won’t shut up about how Luca wasn’t actively disdainful of her, ergo, she totally has a shot with him! Lujan tells Marizza to stop playing games with Marcos’s heart and storms out. Marizza’s like, “What’s her deal?”
Luca and Sonia go back to her dressing room and make out. They probably have sex, but it’s not clear. Meanwhile, Marizza goes to meet up with Marcos and they make up over the whole Society thing. Marizza give Marcos her permission to keep investigating, as long as he doesn’t get his newly-conventionally attractive butt kicked too hard. Marcos says he wants to figure out who the class watcher is, and Marizza’s like, “UGH, clearly it’s Pablo!” Marcos is like, “Uh…if he was the watcher they wouldn’t have kidnapped him, dingus.” They muse that if it’s not Pablo, it has to be someone in his circle, who’s rich and jerky like he is. Probably not Tomás, though, as he’s not smart enough.
Night falls. Blah blah Pablo brags about getting laid again to Guido and Tomás blah. Tomás is like, “Well, me and Guido also had a hilarious weekend! Did you know Guido lives with this crazy old lady who thinks he’s her son?” Guido punches Tomás and storms out, and then poor dumb Tomás punches Pablo, for no reason I can see. Pablo and Tomás are suspicious of Guido’s reaction.
The next day. Mia meets Luna in the hall and tells her that she and Manuel have made up, although Mia still thinks something’s up with him. That’s the Mia I know and love! Mia asks Luna to get information out of Nico, and Luna sighs that she already tried that, and Nico ran away. Heh. Mia’s like, “Well, try harder! I MUST KNOW ALL HIS SECRETS!” Luna agrees, and she and Mia do the finger-gun thing. Feli rocks up and is all insulted that Mia’s doing their handshake with Luna, but Mia’s just like, “Whatever” and ditches her there.
Nacho ditches Pepa at his school and runs off to meet his brother in some abandoned house. His brother’s like, “All right, ready for some crime?” and Nacho’s like, “CRIME? So unexpected! I am shocked and appalled!” Oh my God, I don’t care about this at all.
Marizza meets Marcos in chem class and says she’s made a list of Pablo’s friends to investigate. Lmao was it hard, it’s literally just Guido and Tomás. Anyway, Pablo picks that moment to walk in, and Marizza is all jumpy over him. She tries to play it off like she’s just suspicious of him, but Marcos cottons on that maybe, just maybe, Marizza’s not over Pablo.
Nico and Luna blow off class and PDA some more in the cafeteria. Sandra rolls over and is like, “Do I gotta hose you guys down?” Nico chirps that he and Luna are back together, and Sandra whacks him on the head with a pan. Hee.
The Society has another one of their needlessly dramatic meetings with the red lights and the fog machine. They drag the watcher in to yell at him for saving Pablo. The watcher gets a chance to defend himself (he’s basically like, “Pablo’s not one of the kids we want to pick on and burning him to death would be suspicious”), and the Society decides to take a vote to kick him out of school or not. About half of them raise their hands; it’s not really clear what the verdict’s meant to be. Out in the hallway, Marcos decides to track down Rodrigo, who is not happy to see him. Uh-oh!
After class, Marizza decides to embarrass herself some more by calling Luca. He picks up, and just then Mia pops over the side of the railing. “Helloooooo!” she chirps.
SHE’S SO CUTE.
Over at Manuel’s locker, Nico decides to confront him about Mia. “Is this thing real, or is it part of your revenge?” he asks. On the other side of the locker door, Luna is shocked and appalled.
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