Happy Inauguration Day! This post has been brought to you by tears, denial, and alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.
Opening monologue: I hate that I love you; I don’t like seeing you with other people, but being around you makes me want to scream. Gosh, I wonder which of our couples this could refer to?
We pick up where we left off: Marizza discovering Pablo was the one to fuck up her and Facundo’s car. She wants to go run off and kick Pablo’s ass, and Lujan has to hold her back. “For once in your life, can you think about what you’re going to do?” she asks. This? From Lujan? HA! HAHAHA! She makes Marizza calm down and promise her not to do anything crazy. My God, Lujan, who are you?
SHE’S NOT THE REAL LUJAN.
In her room, Mia rants to Vico about how much she hates Papa C. She’ll just have to plan her quince herself! I mean, no matter how much money Papa C supposedly has, it was gonna look just as budget as everything else on this show, so she might as well do it on her own. Oh, no, wait, she’s going to call Sonia. So close to being self-sufficient, and yet so far. Anyway, her plans are interrupted by Gloria, who’s looking for Feli. She tells them Feli’s mom is here, and Mia says she called her. She’s going to talk to Feli’s mom one-on-one! When she was just whining about having to plan her own party? I like how they can’t keep her consistent in the same damn scene.
Mansilla fesses up about the flowers, and Hilda shrugs it off. But before she forgives him, she has a condition: she wants him to kick Hilario out of the school. Given that he’s in no way qualified to teach dance, that should be fine, but Mansilla’s like, “But I was gonna hook you guys up! Don’t ruin my plans!”
Pepa tells Sonia that Papa C’s coming to see her, because Pepa told him he could, because Pepa is a fuckup. Sonia’s not happy at all, but it’s too late: Papa C’s here, to once more ineffectually try to break Luca and Sonia up. Well, maybe not so ineffectually this time: he tells Sonia that Luca’s going to give up his job opportunity in Spain for her, and she should let him go. He’s like, “My brother is total man-baby and eventually you’re going to get tired of him.” But more nicely, and with sad piano music. Their nice moment is broken up by Mia calling Sonia, wailing that Papa C won’t let her have her quince. Sonia has to pretend to be talking to someone else, but promises Mia that she’ll help her.
Now that she’s broken up with him, Tomás is sadly pining after Luna. Hee. Sadly for him, after a brief break for some randos to product place some new snacks, Nico swings in to study with her. Aw, Tomás can’t sit at her library table. Pablo, being a bro, pretends that there’s some band shit going down that Nico’s needed for, and gets him away from Luna for Tomás to swoop in. Luna tells Tomás that she loves him as a friend, but she’s in love with Nico, and kicks him out of her library table. “But I’m a bonbon!” Tomás wails. Hee. Poor dumb Tomás.
Okay, it looks like Luna showing him how joints work or something, but she’s really telling him to go away.
Nico comes busting in to their room to see what Manuel wants, and Manuel’s like, “What are you doing here?” Well, since Nico’s here anyway, Manuel needs his help. “What, with studying?” Nico asks. “Studying? It’s like you don’t even know me,” Manuel says. HEE! Could it be, after 108 episodes, this show is gaining some level of self awareness? Like HAL? Anyway, Manuel’s been going through Lujan’s notes, and he thinks he’s found a clue to Blas’s real identity. They’ve found a phone number and so they call it, only to find that it’s a nursing home. The home’s employee doesn’t know who Blas is, but Manuel muses that maybe one of Blas’s relatives is living there — and they don’t know Blas because he’s using a fake name! This is said like it’s a huge revelation, even though Lujan and Vico found that out like thirty episodes ago? Anyway, they wonder if they should go to the home with a picture of Blas, and see if anyone recognizes him.
Mia tries to tell Feli’s mom that Feli’s bulimic (not in those words, like they’re allergic to the phrase “eating disorder”), but her mom’s like, “Pfft, impossible! Pressuring my daughter to be thin doesn’t negatively affect her whatsoever!” Mia demands that Mama Mitre takes Feli to the doctor. Mama Mitre caves, I imagine because getting browbeaten by a teenager was really embarrassing for her.
Luna tries to babble to Lujan about how great being in love is, but Lujan is all salty because Marcos doesn’t love her, so she refuses to listen. She asks where Marizza is, and Lujan tells her that she’s plotting her vengeance in the sad trailer. “WHAT?” Luna asks. What, like that’s something new?
Marizza goes to the trailer and yells at Pablo that they have to practice driving. He just waxes on for like five minutes about how much he loves his guitar and he wants to get married and have little guitar babies with it or whatever, and Marizza’s like, “Whatever,” and leaves. That was anticlimactic.
So Manuel and Nico need a photo of Blas. Manuel assumes that Mia will have one, so he breaks into her room. It’s been a while since he’s done that! Mia catches him, naturally, and they get into their usual sniping match before Mia kicks him out. Nico grovels to Manuel for being a terrible lookout, but Manuel reveals that he grabbed a photo of Blas anyway. Kind of neatly, it’s a candid shot, which I thought was weird at first before I remembered that Mia’s always taking photos, and it actually makes sense for her to have taken some of Blas. Nico hugs Manuel and Manuel’s like, “Okay, bro, physical displays of affection are not cool.”
Sonia invites Luca over, and makes up some BS story about Papa Spirito wanting to meet up. You’ll recall that he lives in Italy, so she suggests that Luca come with her to Europe and while they’re there, they’ll pop over to Spain and check out his new job. Luca’s like, “That sounds fun!”
The next day, Nico and Luna go off to the Math Olympics. Renata’s like, “Chop chop, trigonometry waits for no man,” but Mansilla tries to block her all, “Ohoho, we cannot let our math heroes go without a speech!” Renata hustles them out, and Tomás makes a feeble attempt to hit on Luna again. He fails once more, and blusters to Pablo that he doesn’t like Luna anymore.
Hilda’s giving Mansilla the cold shoulder over him hiring Hilario, as she should. Mansilla’s like, “Someone is not happy about my meddling in their personal lives? DOES NOT COMPUTE.”
We cut to English class, where Mama D is asking the class to give her some sentences in English. Marizza doesn’t know what “sentences” means, and Lujan has to translate. God love her. Mama D calls on Pilar, and everyone needles her for being the teacher’s daughter. “I’m going to kill my mother,” Pilar snaps. Heh. After class, she storms off to complain to Dunoff, and he asks Gloria to bring him the list of applicants for the English teacher job.
Mama Mitre takes Feli to the doctor. Hey, Feli’s wearing a 47 street shirt! I saw those stores and their ads everywhere in Argentina (probably because I was a teenager at the time, and I stayed with a family with two other teenage girls). Anyway, he weighs Feli and Mama Mitre gets all twitterpated that she’s lost 3 kilos (~6 pounds). Way to totally forget what Mia just told you, Mama Mitre!
Manuel and Nico somehow sneak out of school to go visit the nursing home. I mean, I’m glad they skipped the tedious sneaking-out-and-almost-getting-caught scene, but I’m also baffled that they managed to just waltz off without Blas catching them. Maybe he was busy perving on Mia. Anyway, the receptionist is like, “Nope, never seen him,” and then when Manuel’s walking away, she’s like, “Oh wait, I totally have!” Sigh. Blas is apparently the nephew of an “Angelita”, but when he came by the home, he was calling himself “Juan.” HMMM. Manuel begs her for some way of contacting Angelita, and ends up leaving his number.
Back in class, Hilario’s getting along with the kids like a house on fire. He asks if any of them sing or play an instrument and they’re like, “All of us, duh.” Pablo volunteers that he likes to write emo songs on his guitar, and Hilario says he should play something for them. Pablo runs off to get his guitar — you remember, the one that he made the mistake of waxing on to Marizza about — and Marizza smirks to herself. Uh-oh. Anyway, Mansilla pops in looking for Hilda, and Marco says that he saw her leaving. Pablo comes storming back in and asks Marizza what she did, and she chirps that she gave Facundo his guitar. Dating Marizza and getting a sweet guitar? Man, Facundo’s getting a good deal here. It’s nice to see him finally being compensated for bending to Marizza’s every whim.
Manuel goes back to school and updates Lujan on what he’s found. Blas swings by to needle Manuel about cleaning up the library some more (you can’t tell me that there are still more books there). I mean, I know it’s his vengeance! and all, but at what point does Manuel just go, “F this noise, stabbing Franco Colucci is not worth repeating three years of high school and getting shaken down by a glorified yard assistant.” Anyway, Lujan tells him that she promised she would stop investigating Blas so she could get permission to see Marcos, so they have to drop the investigation. But I bet Manuel won’t.
Papa Provenza shows up to the Math Olympics to see Nico. He corners Renata and asks her if Luna is Jewish. What a bizarre thing to expect her to know. Renata’s like, “Pretty sure she’s not,” and Papa Provenza is all perturbed.
Guido waxes on about how much he loves to have a Pepsi after a long day of work. Get that product placement! Sandra yells at him to get back to work before she kicks his ass. Hee. Manuel swings by and he’s like, “Get me a water” (also hee), before sitting down to discuss Blas with Marcos. He tells Marcos about Lujan’s deal with the devil, and Marcos is like, “Why would she do that for me?” Manuel’s like, “Because she’s in love you with you, dumbass.” Marcos is like, “The very idea!” Then Gloria rocks up and says Angelita is calling for Manuel. Manuel asks Marcos to get him some paper, for which Marcos turns to Guido: “Hey, cafe!” “Cortado?” Guido derps. “No, you, you’re cafe,” Marcos says. Hee! I love that Pablo’s nickname is spreading. Anyway, Manuel makes plans to meet with Angelita tomorrow.
Vico and Mia try to ask Feli how it went at the doctor’s, and she ignores them and storms off. They decide that the best way to figure out what happened is to — what else? — stalk her. Vico leaves to go commence invading her privacy, and Sonia swings by to talk to Mia about her quince. Mia points out her birthday, and Sonia flips out: it’s the same day as Marizza’s! WHAT TO DO.
Pablo gets Facundo’s guitar back and forks it over to Marizza. She’s like, “Why are you being so weird about this anyway?” and he’s like, “Because it makes me sick that you’re going out with my friend!” and she’s like, “You’re crazy.” “I am,” he agrees, and makes out with her. Wow, I think it’s actually been a while since we’ve had a random makeout!
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