Martavio has taken Marizza to the bad side of town to show her kids with real problems. Hopefully she’s less dumb than Pablo about it, and doesn’t get herself beat up by some rando who then gets arrested and saddles us with his annoying brother for 100 episodes. Sad music plays over shots of disaffected youths, single moms with babies, etc. “Why did you bring me here?” Marizza meebles, and OH THANK GOD, after 200 episodes, a character finally says that if she thinks her bougie-ass boarding school is the rock bottom of society, she doesn’t know shit about how the world works. RUN AWAY WITH ME, MARTAVIO!
Some kid who is not a good enough actor to cut it in the Cris Morena Stable comes up and asks Marizza for food, and Marizza’s like, “Help, a poor person touched me!” But then the kid comes back and gives her some food, because he is so poor yet so noble.
Okay, I’m gonna backpedal just a little bit here and point out that: yes, Marizza’s privileged ass has no idea how good she has it; on the other hand, Elite Way is corrupt as hell and all the authority figures are negligent at best and actively abusive at worst. Like once Mia’s old enough to grasp what was going on with her on-off relationship with Blas, that girl is going to need so much therapy. So like, I support Martavio showing her how much worse it could be, but let’s not act like Marizza’s hatred of Elite Way is entirely unjustified.
Speaking of negligent adults, Gloria’s all ready to go try to win Martavio’s love, but Dunoff cockblocks her. He pins Hilda’s new transformation on her, and wants Gloria to talk Hilda back into being uptight and self-loathing like she used to be. Yeah! Fuck Hilda’s newfound happiness after grieving her husband, let’s make her sad again because that’s what we’re used to!
Erreway — sans Marizza — agrees to resume their band activities, and Pablo offers up his sex apartment as a rehearsal space. They squee that Erreway is back! Uh…were they not before? So all that rehearsing and performing they were doing, that was just…for kicks? Look, I don’t know.
Vico goes to see her dad, and he acts real weird and shifty, crying to her that Roxana left him and he needs Vico to come live with him and keep him company. “Do it for your father,” he sniffles, and I’d be like, “You abandoned me for ten years so fuck off,” but Vico’s more reserved than that. She agrees to move in with him.
Martavio drives Marizza back to school and tells her that now that she’s seen real suffering, he hopes she’ll stop pretending to be ~rebelde~. “I am rebelde,” she snaps at him. (~Y SOY REBELDE, CUANDO NO SIGO A LOS DEMÁS~) Martavio’s like, “LOL poser, you’re not a a real rebel,” and tells her she has to work for real change against injust systems, and not just pick fights with every single person who pisses her off. Marizza’s like, “Hmm, sounds fake, but okay.”
Oh good, now it’s time for one of those scenes where Guido hits on a girl. I always find these scenes fascinating and I never find myself spacing out in the middle of them, unwilling to actually process what Guido’s saying. Some girl calls for Pablo and Guido makes a date with her and a friend. Tomás doesn’t want to go because he has other plans — that he refuses to divulge — and he clutches his pearls that Guido would make plans on Pablo’s behalf. Someone’s getting replaced as Pablo’s bestie!
Sonia catches Martavio and Marizza together again and hauls Marizza off. She’s like, “Show me on the doll where the bad man touched you!” and Marizza’s all, “What a wild suggestion, that a teacher here would behave inappropriately with a student!” She changes the subject to Sonia’s boyfriend hunt; apparently Andres has set up a blind date for her. Sonia doesn’t want to go, but Marizza guilts her into it.
Marizza runs into Laura and tries to talk to her about Lola. Laura yells at her for meddling, and Marizza’s like, “But everyone loves my meddling! :(” Then Mia rocks up and tells her that Erreway’s decided to return to the spotlight, so they have to start rehearsing again at Pablo’s sex dungeon. Oh, and they have a new manager, who is…Diego. Marizza’s not pleased at this, and Diego’s acting really overly smug about having finagled his way into the band. Does Diego even have his own nightclub? What is happening?
Andres takes Sonia out to dinner and reveals that he’s her blind date. No way! Oh, and their date just so happens to be at some bar that is super pleased to welcome their old friend, Martin Andrade! Sonia’s like, “I thought his name was Octavio?” and then they have to sit through Martavio hip thrusting his way through karaoke night, and they’re just like, “What the fuck.” Same, guys. Then he does some impressions of Argentinian politicians/celebrities that I imagine is probably funny if you actually know who they are. He starts walking around during his routine and gets too close to Sonia’s table, so she kisses Andres to hide her face. Aaaand here we are, going down the Sonia/Andres road for the third time. Just kill me.
Sol’s about to go on her date with Tomás, then she gets a call from her ex-boyfriend and decides to go over there instead. Feli’s like, “You’re just gonna stand Tomás up?” and Sol’s like, “Well…yeah.” Heh. And yet, Feli helps her anyway. Feli’s morals are kind of weak. They celebrate Sol blowing Tomás off right in front of Ana, who is naturally suspicious.
Guido and his self-loathing dates crash Erreway’s rehearsal. Pablo’s like, “Uh, now is not the best time,” and Guido’s like, “Of course it’s the best time! Enter, ladies!” like this is his apartment. Guido is just the worst. Everyone except Marizza agrees that it would be helpful for Erreway to rehearse in front of an audience, to Marizza’s eternal salt. And they manage to perform “Tiempo” with all the backing vocals and instrumentation, despite it literally just being the four of them. Realism! After rehearsal, Diego offers to take Marizza back to school — she tries to get a ride with Mia and Manuel, but they’re like, “Sorry, we were gonna go to Casa Colucci and make out.” Pablo, of course, is occupied with Guido’s dates. Diego smarms at Marizza that it looks like they’re going back together. Ah, so Diego likes Marizza and is going to be creepy and forceful about dating her. I was wondering where they were going with that!
Bianca almost tells Laura about Lola moving back in with her grandma, but Lola catches her. She flips out about Bianca telling Laura her business, and snaps that she’ll leave Elite Way if she wants to. Bianca agrees to keep Lola’s plan a secret.
Back on Sonia and Andres’s date, Sonia’s freaking out that Martavio has a secret double life. Damn, Sonia, a guy can’t do karaoke night? Andres, of course, is all, “Silly woman, put aside your worry that your daughter is being groomed by a pedophile and let’s talk about our relationship!” Sonia tells him that she was just trying to hide from Martavio, and Andres is all crushed. Whatever, Andres.
Vico tries to leave her dad’s house and go back to school, but he tells her it’s too late (I mean, the hour is too late. Not that it’s too late for her to ever return ever, although that’s implied, too). She keeps trying to leave, until he flips out and yells, “I said no!” Vico is freaked out.
Francisco tries to hang out with Tomás, but Tomás is all cranky that Sol broke their date. Apparently she fed him some BS excuse about having to go home, and Ana sneakily says that she got Sol’s home number, so Tomás can call her. She smiles smugly as Tomás hears that Sol isn’t at her house. Damn, Ana, gettin’ all petty and resentful just like everyone else here! Tomás, for his part, flips out and shrieks that women are all liars!!! Francisco’s like, “Yeah, man, they’re not worth it!” Just then, Laura rocks up to ask for his help with Lola. Francisco has to look cool in front of Tomás now, so he blows her off. I personally would never worry about looking cool in front of Tomás, but that’s me.
Mia and Manuel make out at Casa Colucci, and Manuel reminds her that before they broke up, she told him she was ready to have sex. “Do you still feel the same?” he asks, and Mia very clearly doesn’t, but she says yes anyway. Oh, Mia. “Beautiful” by Christina Aguilera starts playing (oh my God), and he gets her top off, but then Mia freaks out and runs away. They go back to school and Mia apologizes; Manuel takes it pretty gracefully and says that he’s willing to wait, but maybe next time Mia shouldn’t say she wants to have sex when she really doesn’t. Mia’s all happy that he won’t push her (spoiler: he’s totally going to push her), but then Pilar comes up and she’s like, “Oh hey Mia, are Feli and Sol back from hanging out yet?” and Mia’s like, “Say what?”
Guido calls Pablo away from his makeout session to tell him that he can get it up again. OH MY GOD, GUIDO, NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR STUPID DICK. “I’m afraid it’ll betray me again,” he wails to Pablo, and Pablo’s like, “Please stop telling me about your penis,” and hauls on outta there to leave Guido alone with his girlfriend. But then Papa B walks in! Wait, did he not run into Pablo in the hall? You know, where Pablo left two seconds ago? I don’t know. Anyway, Papa B’s like, “Guido?” and Guido’s like, “Papa B?” and Papa B’s like, “Guido?” again. Papa B says the neighbors were complaining about loud music coming from the apartment, and then he sees the mics set up from Erreway’s rehearsal. “No!” Guido wails, and then runs out of the apartment, shirtless and all. Hee. Papa B snarls at Guido’s girlfriend to tell Pablo that he’s in big trouble, and the girl’s like, “I’m just here to hook up, so…whatever.”
Oh, and here’s them not even bothering to cover up Diego Mesaglio’s tattoo, even though there’s no way Guido should have one:
Sol’s ex-boyfriend is bringing along a guy for Feli, so they leave together. Sol drops hints that Mia and Vico aren’t very good friends, because they’ve never introduced her to guys before. Tomás catches them leaving — wait, what? Sol stood Tomás up and then just hung around school all day? It’s like she wants to get caught. Anyway, he snaps that she’s not the person he thought she was, and they’re over.
Diego keeps creeping on Marizza, so she blows him off and walks to the bad side of town instead. She leaves…food for them? Maybe? I don’t know. Anyway, Diego follows her and drags her back to school, so that was pointless.
The next day dawns. Sonia wants to keep talking about Martavio, but Andres is all, “But what about meeeee,” and kisses her, because his romantic interest in her is more important than her daughter, obviously. Get fucked, Andres.
Apparently it’s a morning of confrontations: Mia confronts Feli about going out with Sol; Feli doesn’t deny it, and snaps that Sol is her friend. Mia’s shocked that Feli refuses to back down, and mumblegrumbles at her to be careful. Meanwhile, Papa B goes to yell at Pablo and throw him on the floor, all that usual abusive dad stuff. Pablo’s like, “No, I’m just using the apartment for sex, not music!” but Papa B says that he’s cutting Pablo off. Guido’s like, “Oops.”
Maria Jesus has put up Martavio’s class drawings in the hall, kind of like a gallery (and also what most schools do with their students’ projects — I say like Elite Way resembles a real school in any way whatsoever), and he’s all twitterpated that she would do that for him. Then Sonia rocks up to continue needling Martavio about his lying ways. He tries to make out like her campaign against him is so exhausting, so she’s like, “Fine, let’s just take it to Dunoff and get it over with. Let’s go, Octavio…or do you prefer Martin?” Martavio sweatdrops.
Commercial time! This show has taken their product placement up to eleven by asking: what does a rebel keep in their backpack? The answer is, of course, “All the products that we’re paid to put in this show.” Specifically, Shoco Bolas. And now I finally know what those things are called.
The snacks that overthrow governments!
Luckily for Martavio, he already has a lie handy for Sonia, and tells her that Martin is his brother. And she can confirm with Gloria, because Martavio’s already fed her this line, too! Gloria does indeed confirm, and of course she also believes that Martavio has never done anything wrong in his life, ever, because otherwise that would really kill her boner for him. Sonia wants to draw Martavio out and suggests that Gloria go on a date with him to hunt for information. Gloria says she can’t, as she has to take Hilda shopping, so Sonia volunteers to go in her place.
Pablo, Tomás, and Guido all get together to rant about how much they hate women. Well, Tomás and Pablo do; Guido’s happy that “Guidito” rose to the challenge last night. Every word that leaves Guido’s mouth makes me hate him more. They make plans to go out again, but then realize that now that Pablo’s cut off, they’re all broke. Guido and Pablo run off and Sol comes in, and Tomás starts spilling his drink and making a fool out of himself. He and Sol stare at each other, until Ana drags him off before he can embarrass himself any more.
Marizza emos over the plight of the poor people she saw, while “Para Cosas Buenas” plays in the background. Uh…this feels off, tonally. Her reverie is interrupted by Laura, who’s like, “I’m sorry for saying you shouldn’t meddle in my life. Like all characters on this show, I realized that I was wrong, and I need you to fix my life for me.” Laura wants Marizza to talk to Lola for her, because “you two are really alike.” Hee.
Vico comes back to school, but instead of talking about her abusive home life, Mia just wants to talk about whether or not she should sleep with Manuel. They spot Marcos talking to Fernanda, making plans to have a second riding lesson with her. Fernanda kisses him goodbye, but instead of kissing him on the cheek, she accidentally-on-purpose lands it near his mouth. Marcos is all twitterpated, and Mia and Vico are shocked and appalled. Mia freaks out that Marcos is the last boy who would ever cheat, but Vico sighs that all men are the same. Mia wants to tell Lujan — aw! Mia cares! — but Vico thinks it’s none of their business.
Blas is making Francisco and Manuel wear ugly uniforms for rugby, which I guess is a big deal. Uh, but then Pablo and Tomás have to wear them, too. Blas doesn’t know how uniforms work.
Pablo comes up with a plan to earn money by playing gigs, which really seems like something Erreway should’ve been doing anyway, but okay. He finds a place for them to play, but Marizza shuts him down, as she also has a place for them to play. Manuel’s like, “Well, let’s settle this by which place pays more,” and Marizza says they’re going to play for free. The rest of Erreway is like, “This is very much against the laws of capitalism,” but Marizza threatens to leave the band unless she gets her way.
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