So I spent all my last recap defending Pablo, and then in the last 30 seconds of the episode he had to go and assault Marizza. Why must everyone on this show make it so hard to love them?
Marizza manages to push Pablo off, but that just makes it worse — “So you want to get to the second part, huh?” he snarks, taking his pants off. OH, FUCK NO! Marizza tries to get out, but he’s locked the door, and then he’s trying to take her top and she’s crying and EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE. Then Pablo shoves her away and throws her the key and snaps that now she knows how it feels to be fucked with. PABLO, THERE’S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING MILDLY EMBARRASSED IN CLASS AND ATTEMPTED RAPE. Marizza is pissed, as she should be, and snaps that he’s been screwing with her ever since they’ve met, and they agree to just never talk to each other ever again, and that’ll settle it. She’s going to drop the presidency, too, so she doesn’t have to look at his attempted rapist face ever again.
FOR FUCK’S SAKE.
Speaking of rapists, attempted, statutory, and otherwise: let’s cut to Blas! Lujan comes up and tries to negotiate with him, re: Marcos and the rugby team. “Why do you care so much?” Blas says. “Because he’s my boyfriend, keep up,” Lujan doesn’t say. She says she loves him, and Blas is all, “Poor people don’t know how to love!” He tries to break down her self-esteem about how Marcos is too upper-class for him and Lujan to ever work out, so Lujan should just focus on herself and overcoming her unfortunate birth circumstances. “Or have you forgotten your time in the well?” he asks, reminding her that that’s where she was punished in the orphanage. Lujan’s like…yeah…but how do you know that?
Erreway meets up to rehearse “Será de Dios” again. Marizza and Pablo passive-aggressively needle each other, and Mia and Manuel are like, “O…kay.” Mia whines that Rocco still won’t give the song to them, and Manuel says that maybe before they go out chasing new songs, they should figure out how they’re going to keep playing. With Nico all off in San Luis, they have no representation, and Dunoff’s banned the band from the school (not like that stops them from playing at all the school functions, though). If they go public again, they’ll get kicked out. What do?
Francisco’s playing monkey in the middle with some of the guys, when he sees Lola coming down the stairs. He abandons their game and leaves them to wrestle homoerotically on the floor, and asks Lola how she’s doing. She seems to be doing pretty well, at least until Laura shows up. “Can we talk?” she asks, and Lola’s like, “No. Bye.” Unfortunately, before she can skedaddle on out of here, Mama Arregui shows up. She’s presumably here to check on Lola, although she loses her patience with her about five seconds into their conversation. Lola, for her part, doesn’t do much to help, because the second her mom asks how she’s doing, she flips out and starts ranting about how her parents only care about Laura before exiting dramatically. Ana, who’s watching all the drama from the cafeteria counter, is like, “Yikes.”
Lujan’s tutor wants her to participate in Sonia’s model workshop, and Lujan wonders how her tutor knows everything that goes on in the school. Could it be…that the emails are coming from inside the school? NO WAY!
Meanwhile, Pablo’s all emo in his room. He’s like, “My relationship with Marizza is so messed up 🙁 I thought what we had was real, but it wasn’t!” Well, maybe that’s your own damn fault for trying to rape her. Pablo’s so emo that he decides that the only thing that matters is Erreway, and he’s going to tell his dad to fuck off, too. Guido’s all like, “Yeah! Wait, no, he’s gonna kill you, man.” Pablo’s like, “Whatever, I do what I want!”
Ana’s mad at Tomás for…reasons. His dumb ass probably did something stupid again. I know, that doesn’t narrow it down at all. Tomás tickles her and she stops being mad at him, because Ana doesn’t love herself, but we knew that. Now that they’re all friends after their five-second fight, Tomás tells Ana that he has a big ol’ crush on Sol.
Fernanda whines to Marcos that she’s soooo nervous about learning to ride from him — for some reason they have chosen to have Marcos brushing his teeth in this scene, even though it makes him look heinous — and they have a hearty laugh about what fun it’s going to be. Lujan comes in and flips out: “DON’T LAUGH WITH MY BOYFRIEND!” she yells at Fernanda because, sure, that makes her look reasonable. Marcos gets pissed at her, and gets even more pissed when she says she talked to Blas about Marcos joining the rugby team. “Oh, so you’re interfering with my life again?” he asks. What? Marcos, you blamed her for not getting on the team! Do you want her to be responsible for it or not? Anyway, Blas told Lujan that Marcos could join the team if he passes a fitness test tomorrow. Marcos is like, “Tomorrow? I, uh, have to…do something that’s definitely not cheating on you with Fernanda tomorrow. Definitely.”
Before art class, Marizza announces to everyone that she won’t be copresident anymore. Lujan and Laura are suspicious, but then Martavio comes in and starts class. He’s like, “You okay, Marizza?” and Marizza’s like, “I hate this entire school and everyone in it!” and he’s like, “O…kay…anyway, we’re doing a partner project today, so you guys…do that.” “Hey, crazy hair!” Guido calls, partnering up with Rocco. Heh. Then Maria Jesus rocks in, and I am shocked, because I was convinced that she had disappeared into the ether. All the boys whistle at her. They gotta do something about sexual harassment at this school. Maria Jesus starts perving on Martavio, which weirds Marizza out. Then she launches into a dream sequence set to — oh, shit, “The Game of Love“! And “Jenny From the Block!” This show is such a perfect encapsulation of the early 2000s. It’s actually pretty cute — all the girls are adorable in their painted overalls. Anyway, the dance has about two seconds of actual plot, where Pablo shows up and Marizza dumps paint on him.
Marizza turns in a shitty project, as usual, and snaps at Martavio that it expresses how she feels about everyone at the school. It’s literally just…a black box? 2edgy4school.
Lola’s on the phone with someone, begging to move back in with them. Sounds like…”Augu”? ETA: It’s “abu”, read: her grandmother. Anyway, Bianca comes up and overhears her, but Lola brushes it off.
Andres tries to get Sonia to like, do her actual job, but Sonia’s like, “Stop saying words.” Papa C calls her phone, and Andres is like, “I think he wants to talk to you,” and Sonia’s like, “Can’t hear you! Already out the door, bye!”
Hilda continues to be in a good mood — she runs into Etchamendi, and even he’s like, “What the fuck is going on?” Dunoff and Etchamendi have a conversation that’s made about 100 times more awkward by their deeply uncomfortable seating arrangement. I don’t believe for a second Etchamendi would want to lounge on a couch with Dunoff. Anyway, Dunoff’s going on about how totally awesome and normal everything at Elite Way, and Etchamendi’s like, “I dunno, I ran into Hilda and she was acting pretty not normal. She was like, actually happy! You must investigate! Everyone here must be miserable at all times!”
Marizza skips Sonia’s model workshop, but everyone else shows up, including Pilar and Belen. They say Fernanda’s also signed up, but she can’t be here today, as she has a jumping lesson with Marcos. Lujan’s like, “Say what?” and runs out of class to beat up one or both of them. Meanwhile, the rest of the girls fuss over their hair because you know how girls only care about their hair. Dunoff and Etchamendi come in to observe, and Sonia has to pretend that she’s actually teaching something important. The girls all agree to pretend that this is a finishing class or whatever, and Pilar’s like, “And I won’t spill the beans to anyone at all!”
Diego keeps getting up in Marizza’s face and being way too involved in her problems and finally she’s like, “BRO, what is even your DEAL with me,” so he kisses her. Of course he does. Marizza’s like, “Get off!” but he’s all like, “Silly women don’t know what they want! You just need to calm down and then you’ll like me back!” Get fucked, Diego. You’re not even a secondary character.
Blas’s ragtag rugby team whines at him that they don’t want to play rugby, they’d rather play soccer. Well, Manuel would. Pablo comes down on the side of rugby (as does Tomás, because as Pablo goes, so goes his country), and Francisco doesn’t really care. Whatever, Blas brought it on himself by trying to dick Manuel around in the first place. To punish him, Blas orders Pablo and Tomás to be offense and Manuel and Francisco to be defense. “I want you guys to hate each other! I want blood on the pitch!” he yells. So they play, and their team suddenly has like ten more guys on it because why not, and Manuel gets the shit kicked out of him. Blas is all, “Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?!” Ugh, you’re no Shang, Blas.
Lujan goes to see Marcos’s mom alone, since that was the BS excuse he gave her. Marcos isn’t there, so Lujan says she’ll just wait for him, then, and uses the time to try and bond with Marcos’s mom.
Feli writes Sol a sweet note supporting her after losing the campaign. Mia catches Sol reading it, but Sol covers and doesn’t admit that it’s from Feli. Nevertheless, later when Sol asks Feli to hang out, Feli says she can’t, she has to go out with Alex…but then Mia wants Feli to hang out with her instead, so she invites Mia and Manuel along on her date. Oh, Feli. Also, Alex suddenly has a goatee. What the fuck? Was Facundo’s unfortunate facial hair not enough? So they go on a double date, and Alex takes them to a hella fancy restaurant. He throws down a couple hundred pesos like it’s no big deal, to cover him and Feli’s meal, and Manuel freaks out that he can’t pay for himself and Mia. Mia covers it, and Manuel’s penis gets all insecure.
Fernanda whines her way through her riding lesson with Marcos, about how she’s soooo scared and he’s soooo brave to teach her. “I can see why Lujan is in love with you,” she says, getting all up in his face. Marcos is like, “I am afraid but also a little turned on.” Eventually Lujan busts them, and all Marcos can do is sputter that he totally thought he told her! He’s done nothing wrong!
Bianca asks Marizza to tell Laura that Lola needs her; Marizza interprets that as an invitation to start meddling herself. Marizza gets the dirt on the Arregui family drama from Ana, and goes to ingratiate herself to Lola. I wonder if it’s like looking in a younger, more annoying mirror for her. She gets Lola to rant a bit about how much she hates Laura’s popularity, and that…is going to help her solve the mystery…somehow.
Maria Jesus compliments Martavio on what an awesome art teacher he is. Sonia walks in on them and gets all salty that Maria Jesus is moving in on yet another one of her love interests. They talk about the kids for a bit, and Martavio says he has a daughter “the exact same as as [Sonia’s].” Oh, I see what you’re doing, Martavio. The second he leaves — and Andres enters — Sonia starts flipping out that Martavio claims to have a daughter, but doesn’t have a single picture of her anywhere. As ever, Andres is like, “Shhh, your problems aren’t real, silly woman.”
Pablo tries to get his rebeldía on and tells Papa B that he wants to play in Erreway, but Papa B slaps him down. He’s all excited for Pablo’s burgeoning sports career instead, and tells him to stop saying words about music and living his own life.
Marizza opens up to Sonia slightly about how she’s tired of fighting and caring so much, and that’s why she gave up the copresidency. Sonia’s all, “Ah, young love.” “Not everything is about love!” Marizza says, all cranky, because she doesn’t know she’s on a telenovela. Martavio rocks up and hauls Marizza off to talk about her, and Sonia follows them. She runs into Gloria on the way, and Gloria’s all, “OMG, you’re stalking Octavio? Me too, he’s such a dreamboat!” Sonia’s like, “Ew, love yourself.” Hee. But then they go into the teachers’ lounge and Martavio’s not there; instead, he’s showing Marizza his shiny red Jeep. “If you’re interested, I’ll show you the real black box of society,” he tells her. Uh…I’d love for these kids to see that some people have real problems, on the other hand, Martavio is doing nothing to discourage Sonia’s bad touch impressions of him. Diego sees them leave and tells Sonia, which sends her even further into conniptions.
Mia comes back from her half of the date with Manuel all upset that she made his masculinity feel fragile. He gives her some money — still not all that she paid — and meebles that he doesn’t want a giiiirl to pay for their dates. Mia goes along with this because she is tragic.
Martavio takes Marizza to a neighborhood full of handmade shacks, basically, and tells her to get out of the car. Marizza’s all, “No, poor people scare me!” and Martavio’s like, “Sweet Jesus.”
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