Man, this episode was a slog. It’s so boring. Nothing really happens, the scenes are all broken up unnecessarily, and everyone acts dumber than usual. Plus, Clipconverter is still being stupid. What did I do in my life to deserve all this suffering?
Opening monologue: The road to love is hard and sometimes we get lost. We have to let each other into our hearts to get back on track.
You’ll recall that when we last left our heroes, Marizza and Manuel laid an incredibly vague and poorly planned trap for the Society, Tomás in particular. There’s really no chance it’s going to go well. And it doesn’t. They catch Marcos instead, and he’s all like, “Marizza, Marizza, I’ve made the SHOCKING DISCOVERY that Tomás is with the Society!” Marizza’s like, “No, ya dumbass, we were trying to trap him.” Marcos is like, “Oh. Whoops.” Marizza sighs that the plan is fucked now: they’ve waited and the watcher hasn’t shown up. How were they trying to catch one person by sending notes to like six people? And it’s been shown that these kids will show up any time a rando asks them to meet alone somewhere; it’s not like responding to the note would have been proof of guilt. I don’t understand this plot. Anyway, they decide it would probably be easier to just ask Mansilla.
Back at the teen party in this apparently completely unsupervised school, everyone is getting down to “The Ketchup Song.” Pablo and Tomás convince Vico to ask Guido to dance to boost his self-esteem. Vico seems to think she has nothing better to do, even though I think organizing my toenail clippings is more important than making Guido feel better about himself.
In the basement, the Society passes around Manuel and Marizza’s notes. How did they get their hands on them? Nevermind, I don’t care. They burn the notes and ominous that they’ll find out who’s behind them, and then they need a new watcher. Dun dun dun!
Manuel takes a walk with Julieta and he apologizes again for how they broke up. “You didn’t deserve me lying to you,” he says. She’s like, “What did you lie about this time?” Heh. She so has his number. He admits that he’s always had a thing for Mia, and she tells him that they dated for like a month; she’ll survive the breakup without him breathing down her neck. Manuel’s like, “But my hero complex!” Anyway, they part on pretty good terms, and Manuel has a heart-to-heart with his dad, who I guess is in the moon:
He’s like, “Dad, I love you, but my girlfriend is super hot so I’m going to put that ahead of this whole revenge thing. Is that cool?” I guess Moon Papa Aguirre agrees, because Manuel heads back to school with a skip in his step. Little does he know that Luna’s already there, telling Mia that she saw Manuel with Julieta’s tongue down his throat. “Why did he date me if he still likes her?” Mia wonders, and Luna says that it’s because of his revenge. Mia’s like WHAT, but Luna refuses to elaborate, as she’s already said too much. Luna is my least favorite kind of gossip. Either go all the way or don’t tell it at all, dude! Anyway, Mia cries.
Luca is waiting for Sonia at the theater, and he starts hella making out with her. She’s not into it, and he explains that her letter gave him a total boner. She’s like, “What letter?” Luca shows it to her, and Sonia freaks out upon seeing Marizza’s handwriting. I love that it never occurred to Marizza that Luca might assume the anonymous letter was actually from the woman he’s dating, and that he would show it to her. God love her.
Blah blah more teen party blah. Belen is wasted, as are Guido and one of the Diegos. Weirdly not Pablo, though. I thought underage drinking was his thing. Mansilla FINALLY comes out of nowhere and turns the music off. Where’ve you been, Mansilla? Not that he doles out any discipline, though. He confiscates the alcohol and is like, “Keep on partying, kids! But party RESPONSIBLY!” Oh, Mansilla. Marizza rolls up to him and is like, “So, Mansilla, my buddy, what do you know about the Society?” “What do you want to know?” Mansilla says. I hope this is more fruitful than the time Blas tried it.
Manuel comes back to school and runs into Mia, who’s snippy with him and refuses to talk to him further. Oh good, a useless misunderstanding, my favorite kind! You’d think the two of them would recognize that they just went through the same thing with Nico and Luna.
Guido’s also in this scene, not really for any reason.
Feli calls Augusto and asks him to come to the dance, but he’s like, “No, I must stay where I am, and mess with you emotionally from afar .” Mia convinces Feli to have fun without him anyway, because all men are jerks! I bet Augusto won’t like that.
Marizza, Marcos, and Mansilla have a sit-down in the cafeteria, and he tells her the Society would’ve known her notes were a trap, as the Society doesn’t communicate with each other via note. They use other methods — “no one knows what.” Or do they, Mansilla? I’m onto you. Lujan comes in and tells Marizza that her mom is here, and then slides herself into Marizza’s seat next to Marcos. Heh. I see what you’re doing, Lujan.
“Sup.”
Sonia tells Marizza that she’s worried about Marizza writing such an inappropriate letter to a grown man. Marizza realizes that if Luca showed Sonia the letter, that must mean they’re going out. I mean…duh, Marizza. What do you think they were doing on that date you crashed? She yells that she’s ashamed to be Sonia’s daughter and storms out.
Back at the party, everyone’s still dancing and making out. Man, none of these kids can really dance. I mean, I guess they’re okay when they’ve got choreography, but they look like me trying to find the rhythm. That’s not a compliment. Anyway, a bunch of guys ask Vico to sing, and Feli’s like, “No, you have to stay here and listen to me whine about Augusto some more.” Vico’s like, “Wow, that sounds really fun, but no.” Manuel tries to talk to Mia again, but Vico pulls her up onstage with her, and Mia’s all too happy to leave Manuel in the dust.
Marizza comes back to the party and cockblocks Lujan and Marcos, who were just getting comfy with each other. Poor Lujan 🙁
Mia and Vico take the stage, and Mia’s like, “I have an announcement to make! I’m going out with Manuel Aguirre, and he’s totally whipped and does whatever I want. But we’re also breaking up right now, and I’m going to passive-aggressively sing for you!” In the audience, Manuel is pissed, and Feli is crushed.
Mia and Vico sing “Pretty Boy,” actually live this time. Probably because Victoria Maurette is there to carry Luisana Lopilato through it. Then Feli gets on stage and sings too, just in time for Augusto to show up. He’s like, “Hello Feli, I’m here to make sure you weren’t having fun without me :)” Mia sticks up for her, but Feli and her low self-esteem run after Augusto as he storms out.
Eminem (hee!) plays ominously in the background as Blas returns to school. Guess who’s back, indeed. I was hoping it was someone I didn’t actively hate, like Dunoff or one of the not-ethics teacher. He hears the loud-ass music and goes to investigate, but Mansilla clumsily runs interference. He’s like, “Come! We have important grading to be doing! And school stuff!” He hustles him off to the teachers’ lounge, while Blas eyes the doors to the lounge suspiciously. I hate to say it, but Blas is smarter than this. Mansilla could’ve at least come up with something more convincing than “We have to do schoolwork”, as that’s the one thing nobody in this school does ever.
Nico berates Luna for telling Mia about Manuel and Julieta, and Luna defends herself: “Let’s be real, Manuel is no saint.” Tell it, Luna! Nico says that now Manuel will never forgive Mia. He’ll never forgive her? I mean, I guess this is the one time it’s not completely Manuel’s fault, but he probably should’ve told her he was going to see an ex-girlfriend.
Speaking of Manuel, he’s being emo in the cafeteria, where Marizza and Marcos find him. Why does everyone on this show’s name start with M? I just noticed this. They try to snap him out of his funk so he can work on exposing the Society. They’re like, “This is for great justice, it’s way more important than Mia!” Marcos is slightly more sympathetic than Marizza: he says if Marizza ever did anything like that to him, he’d die. Marizza’s like, “…yikes.” Manuel snaps that “Mia’s a disaster, she’s garbage!” Uh…wow. Anyway, Marcos and Marizza tell him about their chat with Mansilla, and he immediately says that they can’t trust him. Marizza’s like, “I mean, if you see anyone else lining up to tell us stuff, let me know.” They could really use the old not-ethics teacher at a time like this!
Feli chases Augusto out into the main hall and he starts yelling at her that he can’t trust her, because only evil skanks would perform on stage! How very Papa C of him. She probably danced with some other boys, too, like a harlot! But it’s okay, Augusto has a solution that will fix everything: Feli will just change schools! Super easy! He won’t even need her parents’ approval or anything like that!
Mansilla falls asleep at his desk, and Blas sneaks out, but not before flipping Mansilla off. HEE!
I mean, I still hate him, but I am tickled at seeing someone flip the bird on a tween/teen show.
The Society decides Marcos is the culprit in the note thing. I try to care.
Blas walks in on Mia crying all over Vico about Manuel. Bizarrely, he doesn’t take the opportunity to try and hit on her — which I’m totally grateful for, don’t get me wrong, but a better teacher would at least ask what’s going on. Anyway, he storms right on in to the party, and the crowd parts as he stomps over to turn the music off. Don’t make him feel so important, guys! He grins and tells them that he can’t wait to think up a punishment for them.
The next day. Marizza bitters on about Sonia’s visit to Lujan, who’s not impressed. How dare Sonia steal Marizza’s 40-year-old crush from her! “She has to be the center of everything, everything has to revolve around her!” Marizza snaps. The self-awareness, it is not strong. Lujan somehow refrains from telling Marizza that some people don’t even have moms. Hey, she and Mia could bond over that!
Paula calls Pablo and he immediately gets a boner. He wibbles on to her about how he couldn’t enjoy the party last night because she wasn’t there. Jesus, Pablo, love yourself. “Hmm, but Marizza was there,” Paula remarks. Not that she’s worried that Pablo still likes Marizza: she’s just afraid that Marizza might make something up, you know, to get between Pablo and Paula. Like maybe that Paula used to be Papa B’s side piece. Something like that. “Don’t you see she’s crazy about you?” Paula asks. Pablo’s like, “I mean, she treats me the way she treats everyone else, with indiscriminate threats of violence, so…no, not really.” Then Blas walks by and yells at Pablo to get to class. As ever, the reminder that her boyfriend is still in high school does nothing to make Paula question her life decisions.
In class, Manuel and Mia snipe at each other that they never really liked each other anyway. Then Blas comes in and tells them that their punishment will be having an extra gym class instead of lunch. I don’t think that’s legal, Blas. All the kids start protesting; Feli wails that she won’t be able to survive without food. I mean…not untrue, technically. I think it’s kind of unproductive, punishment-wise, but it’s not the greatest injustice ever done. Ew, I can’t believe I’m kind of taking Blas’s side. I need to be cleansed.
Sonia emos to Luca about her and Marizza’s fight, and Luca offers to talk to Marizza for her. Oh, this can only end well.
Luca texts Marizza and asks her to lunch. Marizza gets all twitterpated and starts stroking her face with the phone. Marcos comes in and he’s like, “Why are you trying to make out with your phone?”
“Te soñé” plays in the background, Manuel emos over Mia, Mia emos over Manuel. Blah blah music video blah. I really love the part where Mia’s not even remotely looking at him.
That can’t be conducive to a conversation.
We cut to Nacho and his criminal older brother. More Nacho, just what this shitty, plodding episode needs! CBO figures out that Nacho didn’t steal the money, and Nacho confesses that he asked Pepa for it. CBO gets all abusive about how Pepa’s going to find them out, and Nacho needs to get back into the stealing game, because that’s how they’re gonna get money when they’re on the run. “We?” Nacho derps.
In Blas’s Boot Camp for Wayward Youths, everyone’s having a hard time doing sit-ups, while Blas walks around blowing a whistle and yelling at them. I totally had a P.E. teacher like this. We didn’t have a gym, so we had to do push-ups and sit-ups on the asphalt playground, and every time one of us messed up, we all had to start over. He was crazy. He might have been a worse teacher than Blas, and that’s saying something. Anyway, Marizza sneaks out of class to go meet Luca, and Pablo follows her. She snipes that if he’s going to try to control someone, he ought to be doing it to his girlfriend. Pablo’s like, “A girlfriend jab? Oh my God, you DO still like me!” Heh. Marizza’s like, “You wish, I’m off to go meet a REAL man.” “Like who, Marcos?” Marizza denies it: “Someone else.” Behind a pillar, Marcos overhears them, and he is not happy. Neither is Pablo, for that matter. Marizza’s such a heartbreaker.
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