Opening monologue: You’re close to reaching your dream, so don’t listen to people trying to hold you back.
Marizza’s been locked in the laundry room by Dunoff, in the grand tradition of Elite Way literally not being able to do a single thing like a normal school. It’s called detention, guys! Pablo snuck in there so they could rehearse together, and also so he could win her heart back, and she asked him to bring her her cell phone so she could call Simon, and Pablo was like, “What cell phone?” except now it’s ringing and Marizza knows that he’s had it all along. She’s pissed, of course, except…somehow Tomás and Guido are texting Pablo, on Marizza’s phone? It’s unclear. Anyway, they start fighting, but they’re interrupted by Dunoff. Pablo hides, and Dunoff agrees to let Marizza out for the night and the next day. But on Sunday, she’s going back in the laundry room! What the hell? Detention is only allowed to last like an hour. As she leaves, she reminds Dunoff to lock the door, since kids are always sneaking into the laundry room to make out. Hee! But can’t Pablo just crawl back up the chute? I mean, wasn’t that how he was getting in and out in the first place?
Also, at the risk of sounding sheltered, I have never been in a room that locked from the outside. Like there’s no lock on the inside? And isn’t there a secret passage from the laundry room to the basement anyway?
Meanwhile, Blas is being petty and trying to expose Erreway to Papa B because Mia is slipping out of his creepy, inappropriate grasp. He creeps up on her in the empty hallway in the middle of the night because of course he does, and twists her wrist and is generally every guy you don’t ever want to go on a second date with. He’s all pissed at her for using him to get information about Marizza’s punishment and for liking boys her own age, blah blah where is Chris Hansen when you need him blah.
I just went to go watch his death scene to make myself feel better, and my hand to God, they want you to feel bad for Blas when he dies. HA! HAHAHAHA! Not a snowball’s chance in hell, dudes.
Anyway, over at some restaurant, Papa C’s just confessed to Sonia that Mama C is alive after all. Gasp, shock! Sonia’s like, “So you’ve been lying to Mia about her mom this entire time? That’s hella fucked up.” Papa C’s like, “Pretty much,” and makes Sonia promise not to tell Mia. Sonia agrees, which I’m sure will in no way blow up in her face. Sonia wonders if that letter that was sent to Mia on her birthday was really from her mom after all, and Papa C’s like, “Impossible!”
Lujan tells Marizza that she’s been enrolled for next year, so she can stay and enable her for a whole other season. Marizza checks her phone and gets all pissy when she sees that Simon hasn’t called. Lujan mentions that Sonia told everyone that Marizza was on vacation, which Marizza finds odd, but otherwise skates right by. Marizza knows Not-Wife will recognize her voice when she calls, so Lujan calls for her and gives a fake name. Not-Wife is still like, “That was clearly Marizza’s friend.” Heh. When Simon comes back home, though, she lies and says nobody’s called for him. Eh, I feel for Not-Wife. It’s like, you carry this douche’s kid and push him out of your vagina and even name him Simon Jr., and Simon wants to fuck around with high school girls? I’d keep him on a leash too.
The next day, Erreway is all twitterpated about their upcoming performance. Manuel changes his mind and decides that he’ll stay and sing with them after all. Everyone’s happy about this instead of yelling at him for screwing around with their feelings. Mia gives him his money back, telling him she’s changed her mind about holding onto it until after the show. Uh-oh. Manuel runs off, and everyone starts getting all emo about how sad they’ll all be once he’s gone.
Mansilla takes Random Rosario and the eighth-grade delinquents to his house for lunch. He and Random Rosario blah blah on about Mansilla’s project some more, which we still don’t know anything about other than it’s vaguely on the topic of poor children. Renata comes by to eat with them, and Rosario starts making noise about how Mansilla’s apartment is a mess and he really needs a woman in his life. Renata’s like, “Awkward.” Rosario hauls the delinquents out to go buy groceries for Mansilla, and Renata’s like, “You know she wants to be that woman in your life, right?” Mansilla’s like, “NO YOU” and Renata gets all flustered because she wants Mansilla’s body.
Luna counts her money and chatters to Cata about how she’s going to bring Flor lots of presents when she visits her. Cata’s like, “Yikes.” But then Luna calls her mom and finds out that she’s dead to her entire family and they’re just like…abandoning her at boarding school, as you do to your teenage daughter. So that vacation’s a no, then.
Papa B calls Pablo sounding like he’s come down with strep throat, and insists that Pablo has to come with him to do some campaign thing. Pablo remembers that his mom exists and asks her to save his ass.
Lujan thanks her tutor for like…being cold and distant and leaving her hanging about her enrollment until the very last minute? It’s unclear. Then Marcos comes in all emo about his parents and how his dad won’t talk about his mom. Then it cuts to Marcos’s dad talking to ~someone~ about how difficult it is to manage Marcos. “Every day, he’s more ~rebelde,” he says. Drink! He thinks Marcos should be pulled out of Elite Way.
Marizza comes storming into her room to look for her cell phone, since she needs to talk to Simon and let him enable her into calmness. Sonia shows up instead
Mia’s all upset over being attacked by Blas in the hall, understandably. Vico’s like, “Whatever, you can’t stop Blas from being a dick.” She suggests Mia focus on performing at the Gran Rex instead, which just makes Mia more upset, because Papa C can’t see her perform, because it’ll give him the vapours or something. She runs off to find Manuel and dramatically grabs his face to make sure that Blas didn’t hurt him. Manuel’s like, “Oooookay.” He wanders off like two feet away from her and gives Marcos his money back, telling him that he doesn’t need it anymore. Mia’s all twitterpated, and she and Manuel almost kiss before Blas comes to get his inappropriateness all over Mia. He gives her flowers and Mia’s like, “So you’re not mad at me?” and Blas is like, “What would make you think that? Was it when I snuck up behind you in the middle of the night and threatened you? ‘Cause that was no big thing.” Thankfully, Sonia rolls up and runs Blas off. She finds out that Mia doesn’t think Papa C will come to the show, and she’s like, “Aw, hell no!”
Luna cries over her family abandoning her, and Nico’s like, “Seriously, what’s up with all the adults in this show being human disasters?” For some reason, this whole thing has made Luna think she should have left Elite Way and moved to San Luis to take care of her sister. That was like eighty episodes ago, Luna. It’s too late! Anyway, she writes Flor a letter expressing all this, as if her mom is ever gonna give it to Flor. Nico tells her to follow her heart, and if her heart says to go to San Luis and get verbally abused by her mother, then that’s what she should do.
Mia continues to be emo in her room, and Vico’s like, “I don’t think you’re upset because Blas continues to stalk you and make inappropriate romantic overtures, I think you’re just upset over Manuel!” Mia starts crying, and they cut to Manuel wandering around his room, looking all confused. I mean, that’s usual for him.
Pilar decides to stir up shit one last time with her newspaper. God bless. I’ve missed Pilar ruining everyone’s lives just for the hell of it.
Erreway meets in the sad trailer for rehearsal, and Nico cheers on their performance of “Sweet Baby.” I wonder if it was awkward for Nico’s actor to have to hang around in these scenes, clearly not being a part of the band. Nobody put his face on any notebooks, is all I’m saying. Manuel makes a big speech about how he’s going to finish out the year at Elite Way, and Mia gets all twitterpated. Uh…again. Marizza needles Mia for hugging Manuel, and Mia’s like, “I’m hugging everyone!” and goes in on Marizza. “Don’t touch me,” Marizza says. Hee!
Mama B is trying to distract Papa B from the whole Pablo-is-in-a-secret-pop-group thing. After all, their only source is Blas, who I wouldn’t even trust to tell me the time. Papa B wants Mama B to go check on Pablo and make sure he’s at school, not sneaking off to go perform in pop concerts. I love how Erreway is seemingly the biggest band in the country and nobody knows what any of them look like. Mama B calms Papa B down and he backs off. For now.
Papa C listens to the tape of Mercedes revealing her telenovela villainry, but he only gets as far as Sonia pretending to like him before shutting it off all twitterpated. Oh, this will end well. He shows the tape to Peter and he’s like, “What do you think, should I ask her to prom?” Peter’s like, “I think she was just trying to piss Mercedes off,” and Papa C’s like, “Stop saying words.” Sonia comes over and Papa C hits on her and OH GOD IT IS SO AWKWARD. Then they get back on familiar ground and start fighting over why Papa C won’t support Mia’s burgeoning pop start career, and it’s boring, as their fights always are.
Renata is still hanging out at Mansilla’s house. She suggests to him and Rosario that they take the issue of the disaffected 13-year-olds to Papa B, since he’s running for office. Mansilla’s like, “An excellent idea, if anyone cares about children, it’s Papa B!” Are you new, Mansilla? Rosario like, invites herself to stay at Mansilla’s house while they work on the delinquent issue some more. Instead of being like, “Get a hotel, fool,” Mansilla lets her stay, and Renata is not pleased at all.
Marcos invites Lujan to go on vacation with him. He’s like, “Anywhere you want!” and Lujan’s like, “Let’s go to Machu Picchu with Marizza!” Oh my God, Lujan.
Luna tells Nico that she’s going to take his advice and go be with Flor. Nico’s like, “Excellent, have a nice visit,” and Luna’s like, “No, I mean I’m going to go live with her.” Nico flips his shit, because he was only planning to be supportive as long as she did what he wanted her to, I guess. That said, see above re: her parents literally kicking her out? What part of “Stay away from us forever” did Luna interpret as an invitation to move back in?
Marizza’s confessing her excitement about the show to her poster of Axl Rose (ha!) when Simon rolls up. He and Marizza have a confused exchange over whether or not Marizza left a message and if she was on vacation and if not then where the hell was she, and Marizza realizes Sonia lied to Simon.
Sandra comes across Nico crying, and tries to comfort him: “This is how Luna is,” she says. “She’s obsessed with martyring herself for literally everyone crosses her path, you should know this by now.” Just kidding, not that last part. Nico’s like, “I’m just saying, we should talk her out of moving back in with her abusive family,” and Sandra’s like, “I dunno, she does what she wants, man.” I swear to God, if there was ever a time for Sandra to get her meddling and disregarding of Luna’s wishes on, it would be now, but she doesn’t. She just cries about how Luna really is a martyr and they can’t stop her. So Nico…decides to propose to her. What? WHAT? I mean, the fact that they’re 15 years old aside, how does he think that’s going to stop her from moving to San Luis?
I mean, I knew they were gonna get married, but I didn’t know it was going to be for such a BS reason. Sweet fancy Moses.
So anyway, let’s just cut away from that and go to Erreway’s concert! Everyone’s freaking out; Sonia shows up and Marizza yells at her for lying to Simon. Whatever. I support lying to Simon all the time about everything. Meanwhile, Papa C brings Mia flowers, because he’s decided to deal with her being a pop star after all. I mean, she’s apparently already a countrywide sensation, so he might as well roll with it.
They all go on stage and the concert begins, and I’m pretty sure this is just footage from their actual concert in the Gran Rex; or at least they just filmed the show that they were already putting on. Case in point: the sign behind them literally says Rebelde Way. That’s awfully meta. They sing “Rebelde Way,” and holy God, it actually sounds live. I was just kidding when I predicted that! Sadly, we’ll never know if they manage to sing more than one song per show, because once they’re done, Papa B rolls up to the Gran Rex, and the episode ends on a cliffhanger. Dun dun dun!
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