PSA: There are no screecaps for this episode because I’m having a rough week and can’t be fucked to do them. Whatever, absolutely nothing of note happens, so it’s not like you need to visualize any of this.
Previously on Rebelde Way: Diego stormed in all mad that Marizza kissed Pablo, but then she tells him that she only did it so Pablo wouldn’t notice that she was stealing his CDs, and Diego’s like, “Oh, that’s fine then.” I do so love when this show sets up dramatic cliffhangers that are resolved in two minutes. Marizza reminds him that they’re fuck buddies, not actually dating, and Diego’s like, “Yeah, but I can tell you’re obsessed with him, so this is not a good look.”
Oh, and apparently their band is called “The New Erreway.” I mean, I’m hoping they’ll change it, but do they really think no one’s going to notice that Marizza just formed a poor man’s Erreway with Pablo’s first draft songs? This is gonna be so sad.
Meanwhile, Lola passive-aggressively accuses Bianca of selling her out to Laura. “I didn’t!” Bianca bleats, but Lola doesn’t believe her. And this is why you never tell Marizza anything.
Martavio enlists the help of his hairdresser brother/cousin/whatever to help him actually be an art teacher, so Sonia will stop suspecting that he’s just at the school to creep on her daughter. He’s like, “You have to know someone! One of your friends or whatever!”, like it’s a given that a hairdresser has a bunch of teacher connections. I don’t know. Martavio is weird.
Marizza is looking for Lujan, and Blas needles her that Lujan is just fine, and she’s off working on some extra homework. Marizza understandably thinks that sounds pretty sketch. They go to class; Manuel is telling the rest of Erreway 2.0 about their new gig, and how one of them might have to dance with the daughter. Mia’s all, “If you cheat on me with her, I will end you,” which I guess isn’t unfair, given Manuel’s tendencies. But seriously, it doesn’t occur to her that Manuel just has to give one (1) dance to a fan? It’s not the end of the world, Mia. But then Pablo’s like, “Ugh, well, I guess I could dance with some random rich girl, for the good of the band and all,” and everyone’s like, “Oh, Pablo, you’re such a martyr,” so the whole thing is moot.
Speaking of dancing, Tomás brings up his brilliant idea to have Sol be their single backup dancer — you need more than one, Tomás! — which of course Mia flips out over. She storms off and passes Fernanda hitting on Marcos, and is suspicious. I love Suspicious Mia! More of this, always!
Lujan’s crying in her room, so naturally Blas shows up to harass her. “Are you crying because you’re remembering your past, or because you’re thinking about your future?” he asks. DAMN! That is mean as hell! Lujan wibbles that she’s too sad to get up or do anything, and even Blas is like, “Wow, that really is sad.” He relents and says she doesn’t have to go to class, but her tutor wants her to do some schoolwork today. There’s some surprisingly nice acting from Pablo Heredia here? I think the gist of Blas’s attitude is that he’s trying to toughen Lujan up, and usually that just comes across as him being a total doucheface, but you can tell here that he’s trying to provoke her and is genuinely surprised by her total lack of fight.
Sonia goes into the teachers’ lounge, trying to find incriminating material on Martavio. She finds a book in his bag and gets all pumped that it’s probably porn, like the Kama Sutra — what is with this school and the Kama Sutra? — but instead it’s a book on how to teach art. Sonia is confused. She runs off to find Hilda and ropes her into helping Sonia out, despite Hilda’s protestations.
Mia tells Marizza that she thinks Marcos is fucking around with Fernanda, and Marizza’s like, “I’ll rip his head off and put it on a stick!” Hee! I love A) that Mia is concerned about Lujan, B) that Mia and Marizza are teaming up, and C) that they’re teaming up to defend Lujan. It’s adorable. Mia tells Marizza to talk to Marcos, but try to hold off on actual homicide.
The next morning dawns, and Marizza sees that Lujan never came back to go to sleep at all. She finds Lujan asleep at the computer in the lounge, and is relieved that Lujan was just doing homework and wasn’t like, being held by Blas in his student torture dungeon or anything. She cottons on that Lujan’s been crying, and tries to be passive-aggressive about Marcos, but ultimately neither she or Lujan bring up his thing with Fernanda. Marizza hustles Lujan off to take a shower and change, and Lujan cutely hugs her and thanks her for being her friend. Aw.
Pablo finally realizes his demos are missing and tears apart his room looking for them. He flashbacks to waking up and finding Marizza in his room at crack-thirty in the morning and he’s like, “Aw, hell no.”
Laura calls her grandma and tells her not to let Lola come live with her; Laura’s going to handle her. “Sorry, Lola, but I can’t let you leave this school,” she says. Wow, that sounds much creepier than I think they meant it to. She goes off to work on a poster for Marizza, and I am deeply confused, because the poster says “Erreway” and I can’t believe Marizza’s going to try and call her new band “Erreway” also? Is this going to be like a pretender to the throne situation? “No, my band is the real New Erreway!” Francisco’s also in the art room, and he needles her that he’s decided to help her, since her poster is so shitty. Seriously, is he still trying to woo her or not? Because he’s being a total dick about this. (Even though, admittedly, his poster is better. BUT STILL.)
Marcos tells Manuel that he broke up with Lujan. Manuel’s all shocked, like Marcos hasn’t been whining about her since the beginning of this season. He wails that he’ll feel just awful if Lujan’s really upset, and Manuel says, “You’re one of the best guys here.” I mean, that bar is low. I’d go so far as to say it’s right on the ground.
Lujan turns in her homework and Blas goes back to treating her like crap. He tells her never wants to see her cry again.
Marizza catches up to Marcos and she’s like, “I know you’re messing around with Fernanda,” and Marcos is like, “Whatever would give you that idea!” “Uh, the fact that you spend all your time with her and never stop her when she’s hitting on you,” Marizza doesn’t say. She snaps that if he hurts Lujan, she’ll kill him.
Sonia makes Hilda dress up like a maid and pretend to clean the teachers’ lounge, as an excuse to find proof that Martavio is impotent. Wait, she’s still on about that? Even Hilda’s like, “Man, you are way too obsessed with that guy’s dick.” Naturally they find no proof that he’s impotent, but Sonia jumps at the chance to bring up the art teaching book. Martavio’s like, “Duh I have a book on teaching art, I’m an art teacher.” Foiled again, Sonia.
Pablo tries to confront Marizza about stealing the demos, but Carmen catches them and sides with Marizza. She gets her childhood damage all over Pablo about how pretty boys like him just go around being dicks to girls, and she is here to show him he can’t get away with it! Man, Carmen, high school is tough for all of us, you gotta move on. Pablo’s like, “My father, the inventor of the toaster strudel, won’t be too happy to hear about this!” and Carmen’s like, “Go right ahead.” Papa B snarks that since Pablo made the choice to be ~rebelde~, he won’t be bailing him out this time. Pablo’s backup plan is to go to…Tomás and Guido. Oh, this can only end well. He tells them to forge a note from Papa B, telling Dunoff to fire Carmen.
Sol gushes to Feli about how grateful she is that Feli talked to Tomás for her. Mia barges in and snaps that Sol will never dance with Erreway. Sol’s like, “Feli, she’s being mean to me!” and Feli’s like, “Idk what to tell you, man.” Later, Sol’s group debates the relative merits of supporting Marizza to help take down Mia and whether or not it’s worth the effort and if Sol even cares about making anyone but herself popular and Fernanda wants to talk about banging Marcos but nobody cares and zzzzzzz. Feli comes in and the rest of the girls try to blow her off, but Sol continues to play nice with her. She tells Feli that she trusts her enough to tell her her ~plan~, whatever that is. We don’t hear it, because we zoom over to Mia, who’s all salty that Feli and Sol are hanging out.
Marcos comes in and Fernanda goes over to hit on him some more. He tells her that he dumped Lujan, just as Blas comes in. He takes a seat in the corner — not at all subtly — to eavesdrop, and sees Fernanda get all grabby with Marcos.
God, this episode is so boring. I almost fell asleep at my desk.
Lujan flashbacks to Marcos breaking up with her and cries some more. Blas comes in — dude, she’s like in the basement, how did you even find her? — and needles her about crying some more. “I’m just having trouble with some subjects,” she says. “Like the subject of LIFE?” he asks. He makes fun of Marcos dumping her and is generally an asshole, as usual. NOTHING IS HAPPENING IN THIS EPISODE.
Manuel comes up to Marizza and asks after Lujan, and Marizza gets all snippy that she doesn’t want to talk to any of her ex-bandmates ever again. Manuel loses it and calls her selfish for walking away from the band because of her own ego, and now not even putting that aside for their friend. Say it, Manuel! Marizza’s like, “Hold up, what actually happened with Lujan?”
Gloria tells Sonia that Dunoff wants to get rid of her workshop because of that ~rebelde~ BS she pulled last episode.
Pilar stirs shit by telling Laura that Dunoff knows about New Erreway, and he wants her to stop it. She suggests to Laura that if Laura tells Pilar what’s going on, Pilar can try to make it more palatable for Dunoff. Don’t do it, Laura! (…she’s going to do it, isn’t she?)
Martavio and Maria Jesus meet to discuss Pablo’s dick. WHY. Maria Jesus is all, “Martavio, you’re so sexy when you’re helping kids with erectile dysfunction” or whatever, and Sonia maneuvers herself between them and drags Martavio off. I feel kind of bad for Maria Jesus. She doesn’t really deserve to have Sonia cockblocking her at every turn.
Sonia reminds Martavio that he claimed to be friends with Etchamendi, and she’d love to call Etchamendi and talk about fun things like Martavio’s name and employment history, and Martavio’s like, “Um, um, Etchamendi hates when people have his phone number! Can’t give it to you! Bye!”
Marizza finally catches up to Lujan and tells her that she knows Marcos dumped her. She offers to kill him, but Lujan sniffles that she doesn’t need that now. Despite that, Marizza offers a couple more times, because violence is the only solution she knows, God love her. Laura comes in looking for Marizza, and starts telling her all the news with the band. She starts to mention Pilar, but Marizza cuts her off all, “Laura, I’m busy, take care of the band yourself.” “But I have to tell you –” “No! You can do it!” So Laura runs off and promptly spills everything to Pilar and Sol. Oh, Laura.
Sonia’s insisting to Hilda that she’s right, she KNOWS she’s right, and something is weird with Martavio, and he’s not a real teacher — then some random chick walks in and says she’s one of Martavio’s students, and she’s here to get a book from him. Hilda’s like, “This definitely proves he’s a real teacher.” What? Nobody even knows this girl!
In the cafeteria, Guido and Tomás struggle over forging a letter from Papa B. Yeah, I would not have asked these two to try and sound like the mayor. Tomás hushes Guido — and don’t we all wish we could hush Guido — to eavesdrop on Pilar, who’s come in and is telling everyone that Marizza is reforming Erreway. They notice Tomás spying and scurry off, but Guido follows them and hears Sol talking to Feli. He runs back and tells Mia that Sol is the only one who can save Erreway: she knows everything, and she’s told Feli, but Feli…won’t…tell Mia, I guess. I don’t know. Mia’s shocked and betrayed. AND I AM FINALLY DONE WITH THIS EPISODE!
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