So last episode, Mia tried to help Manuel, and he was all, “I’d rather suffer for eternity than have a puny woman meddling in my affairs!” and it was pretty gross, like most things Manuel’s been doing this season. Except now he’s all, “Ha ha, just kidding! I greatly appreciate your meddling, and I just thought it’d be funny to mess with you and think I was going to flip out on you again! Love ya!”
Manuel is kind of a terrible person. What happened to him? Is it the hair dye? (It’s probably the hair dye. It’s happening to Marcos, too.)
Anyway, with that drama happily resolved, we can move on to sadder pastures, like Gloria’s love life. She overheard Martavio and Maria Jesus talking about Pablo’s dick, and now she thinks Martavio is impotent. Sonia tries to get her to report back on her date, and Gloria’s like, “I found out something horrible!” and Sonia’s like, “Oh my God, he’s trying to get with my underage daughter, isn’t he?” and Gloria’s like, “No! HIS PENIS…IS BROKEN.”
Back in the classroom, Sol has auditioned for Erreway, and everyone overrides Mia to accept Sol into the group. Luckily for Mia, Vico waltzes in and blows Sol out of the water with her rendition of “Stand by Me.” Pablo pulls Sol aside and is like, “Okay, you heard her, right? She’s way better than you. Don’t be mad.” Heh. Oh, Pablo. Sol runs off to cry in the cafeteria. Tomás goes over to talk to her, and Ana immediately runs up to try and cockblock them. Oh, Ana. One day, you’re just gonna have to let Tomás go and make his own dumbass decisions. Cut the cord, you know?
Marcos is being emo, as usual, and Lujan tries to comfort him — but when he looks over, he imagines she’s Fernanda. Oh, Jesus. Lujan’s like, “What’s wrong?” and he’s like, “Just contemplating cheating on you, no big deal.” She keeps pressing and he flips out on her, again, some more.
Lola continues to spill her personal problems to Marizza, an error so many characters have made over the course of this show. She tells Marizza about how she’s in love with Francisco, but it’s okay, because she’s just going to avoid him for the rest of the school year. Marizza’s like, “Okay, but…you live with him and go to school with him, so…that might be difficult.” Lola’s like, “Stop saying words.” She runs away, and Diego rocks up and tries to put the mack on Marizza again. Marizza tells him that she doesn’t need another stupid boyfriend dragging her down, and Diego corrects her: he doesn’t want to be her boyfriend, he just wants to make out with her sometimes. Marizza’s like, “Hmm, an intriguing concept” and agrees to just be fuck buddies, except without the fucking because only boys (and Vico) are allowed to get laid on this show.
Night falls over at Sonia’s house or wherever the hell she is these days. She’s ranting to Andres about how Martavio can’t be impotent, because she saw him picking up chicks at the karaoke bar. Andres suggests that maybe Martavio really does have a brother. Sonia concedes the point, but insists that she’s still worried about Martavio hanging around Marizza so much. As ever, Andres is like, “Silly woman and your worries about pedophilia!” He tries to make out with her, but then Hilda comes in and cockblocks him. Sonia’s like, “Oh yeah, Hilda lives with me now, hope that’s cool.” Hee. They have an incredibly awkward dinner, and Hilda is quite fussy and insists on taking care of Sonia. When she finds out that Andres lives with Sonia, she is shocked, shocked and appalled! I mean, so am I. Like, not the way Hilda is — she’s all horrified that they’re living in sin — but damn, Sonia, don’t let this dude mooch off of you!
Marizza’s telling Laura about Lola’s plan to move back in with her grandmother, but then she gets distracted by the sounds of Pablo’s emo music. He’s playing a new song (“Dije adios“), and Marizza’s blown away by how good it is. She laments that her new band’s music won’t nearly be as good, without Pablo to compose and Mia to write lyrics. I do so wish they would expand on Mia’s supposed ability to write and use it in her character literally at all, but they don’t. Laura’s like, “Wow, so…you and Manuel kind of were just contributing nothing, huh?” Marizza decides that she should steal Pablo’s music for her band. She spies on Erreway and sees Pablo show Manuel the demo CDs.. Is she just…hoping he won’t notice when they turn up singing his songs? Whatever. I won’t pretend to understand how Marizza’s mind works.
Despite Ana’s best efforts, Tomás comforts Sol and hears her out. She thinks Pablo didn’t choose her for Erreway because he’s salty that she dicked him around with Tomás — hey, Vico did the same thing, so that’d be pretty hypocritical — and Tomás assures her that it wasn’t personal. “What happened, happened,” he tells her. (Entre tu y yo~ — damn, I’m never gonna disassociate those two phrases from each other, am I?) Sol sighs that it is her fault, for pitting the two cutest guys in school against each other. “You think I’m as hot as Pablo?” Tomás derps. Oh, my God. Stay focused, Tomás!
Marcos goes to Francisco for girl advice, for some reason. I mean, I guess he had a girlfriend back in Santiago del Estero, but so far all we’ve seen is Francisco getting rejected by Laura and messing things up by fake-dating her sister. I’m not sure he’s an expert, is what I’m saying. Nevertheless, he does manage to give good advice: if Marcos isn’t sure of his relationship with Lujan, he should break up with her instead of leading her on. Marcos frets that he knows Lujan has had a rough life, and he doesn’t want to leave her. Sure, because you’re being such a saint by being a jerk to her constantly anyway. Then Manuel comes in, and demands the beanbag chair by repeatedly pointing at Marcos and saying, “Poof.” “Poof?” Marcos asks. Manuel: “Poof.” Damn, I knew Manuel’s brain was devolving, but I didn’t think it was gonna happen that fast.
Anyway, Francisco and Marcos ask for Manuel’s input, re: girls. I would listen to Manuel even less than Francisco. He’s twenty years old and still in high school! Anyway, Manuel gripes that he still can’t get Mia to put out, and that sets all the guys off on how they just want to get laid. Lujan passes by their door and overhears this. She runs over to ask Marizza’s advice, and Marizza’s like, “Well, don’t do it just to hang on to your shitty boyfriend,” and Lujan’s like, “But I have to hang on to my shitty boyfriend! At all costs!” Jokes aside, Marizza’s advice — to make the decision together, not just to make Marcos happy — is very good, and very valuable for the impressionable teenage girls who watch this show. It’s actually kind of jarring to compare this advice to the shit girls hear today — if I had a dollar for every article about how girls and women should just relax and ~try new things~, instead of saying it’s okay to have boundaries, I could…well, I could probably work part-time, at least. Anyway, this is solid advice, is what I’m saying, and would not go amiss for girls to hear today.
Sonia falls asleep on her couch, and Hilda comes to put a blanket over her. Aw! Sonia wakes up, and she and Hilda have some girl talk about life and whatever. Sonia tells Hilda that Andres is her boyfriend, and they’re living in sin, and Hilda’s like, “Really? You don’t act like he’s your boyfriend.” She asks if Sonia’s really in love with Andres, and Sonia admits that she doesn’t know — she might just be clinging to him because she doesn’t want to be alone. “Well, you’re not alone, because I’m going to take care of you,” Hilda chirps. AWWWW.
Marizza sneaks into Pablo’s room while he sleeps, and steals the demo CDs. Pablo wakes up and is like, “What the fuck, Marizza?” so she lies and says she’s here to confess her love to him. Then she kisses him. Ah, the solution to everything on this show. Pablo pushes her off, and she quickly BSes that now that she and Diego are kissing buddies, she wanted to like…compare them. And that’s it, totally! Pablo snaps at her to stop fucking with him — they used to be in love, but that was last season year, and this is this year, and he needs a woman who can be real now. “Sure, and she’d have to be deaf and blind, too!” Marizza says before running away.
Sol cries to Feli about how hard her life is, and Feli is sympathetic, but not so sympathetic that she sticks up for Sol when Mia mocks her. Sol forgives Feli all magnanimously, and Feli gushes that Sol is soooo understanding. Sol muses that perhaps Feli can make it up to her by doing her a favor.
The next morning, Marizza’s all twitterpated after kissing Pablo, and she emos over the good old days. A sad black-and-white montage ensues, but then it ends with a CGI rendering of Pablo being put in a coffin and dropped into hell. He’s dead to Marizza now! And wow, I never thought I’d see that shitty CGI again.
Manuel sneaks out to go meet with the guy who’s booked Erreway. After he leaves, Pablo wanders by, wondering where his demos went, but Mia says Manuel must have taken them. The guy reveals that the party is actually for his uncle, and his daughter really loves Erreway. She wants them to play, and also wants Manuel to dance with her for one song. That sounds like something that wouldn’t cause drama between two mature kids who discussed that sort of thing beforehand, but somehow I bet Manuel and Mia won’t do that.
Back at Sonia’s dressing room/house/whatever, she leaves Hilda with something to give to Andres (I can’t see what it is). But instead of giving them to him, instead Hilda slaps him with the housing section of the newspaper, and tells him to find his own place. HA! Andres immediately gets all salty and tattles to Sonia. He wonders why Sonia is even letting such a batty, pious old lady stay with her, and Sonia confesses that her parents never supported her life decisions, so Hilda’s the first mother figure she’s had in a long time. Andres tries to suggest that maybe Sonia regrets running around Europe sleeping with random guys and being a cabaret performer or literally whatever she does, and Sonia snaps that she doesn’t regret any of the events that gave her Marizza, because Marizza is her world. It’s pretty sweet, actually. This is one of the least annoying Sonia plotlines we’ve had in a while.
Marizza tries to talk Lujan out of sleeping with Marcos again, but Lujan ignores her and tries to jump his bones. Marcos rejects her, though, and breaks up with her. She’s like, “Is this because of Fernanda?” and he’s like, “This has nothing to do with her!” even though it totally does. He wails that it’s just him, he can’t be in a relationship right now, because he got a makeover and now he thinks he can do better. Maybe not that last part. Anyway, Lujan leaves all dejected, and they are officially over. Get bent, Marcos.
Tomás has somehow finagled his way into being Erreway’s manager. What? Jesus, they just keep downgrading. Legitimately, the only thing Tomás has going for him is that he isn’t Guido. Anyway, Feli suggests to him that Sol dance during Erreway’s performances — she’s a top model, so of course people would be excited to see her! Feli, Sol’s like, a failed aspiring model, at best. Tomás hesitates, correctly pointing out that Mia and Vico hate her, but Feli pushes him until his will breaks, as usual.
Lujan cries over Marcos behind the school, and Blas spots her. He doesn’t go over to kick her while he’s down, which is pretty shocking. I thought he was going to indulge in his favorite activity, “Telling students why they deserve their misery and why they should in fact be even more miserable than they already are.” You know, I don’t think he’s been inappropriate with Mia all episode, either. He’s really losing his touch.
Sonia tells Hilda her suspicions about Martavio. She’s like, “I’m going to spy on him to make sure he really can’t get it up!” and Hilda’s just like, “O…kay,” as you might be when one of your coworkers says she’s going to spy on your other coworker’s genital situation.
Laura tries to talk Lola into staying at Elite Way, but Lola’s all, “Whatever, I do what I want!” Then she gets suspicious as to who tattled to Laura. Well, it could have only been Bianca or Marizza, so she has a 50-50 shot of getting it right just by guessing.
Pablo sees Diego and Marizza kissing in the hall, and he gets all jealous and decides to tell Diego about Marizza’s late-night visit. Meanwhile, Marizza’s band is listening to Pablo’s demos — Rocco wants to know who they’re by, and Marizza admits they’re by “that idiot Pablo.” Diego storms in all, “If you think he’s such an idiot, why did you hook up with him last night?!” Whatever, Diego. Don’t tell her you just want to be fuck buddies and then get mad when she kisses someone else! Words have meanings, man!
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