Hey friends! Sorry for the slightly weird post today; there will be no screencaps or accents over Tomas’s name, because my regular computer is being repaired so I’m using my janky school netbook. This post is low-budget, just like the show we’re watching!
The Uruguayans have put their master plan into motion, which is apparently just to get the Elite Way boys hella drunk so that they’ll be too hungover to play tomorrow. I don’t know why they even felt the need to cheat. The Elite Way boys are terrible; all the Uruguayans have to do is be slightly competent, and they have the tournament in the bag. But whatever.
So now Tomas and Guido are wasted, but when Manuel and Francisco come by, they find out that the Uruguayans have only been drinking juice. A fight breaks out, but we don’t get to see it, probably because they realized none of the boys can throw a convincing punch. To the credits!
(By the way, the credits note that the writer of this show is Patricia Maldonaldo, who I now know is the sole writer, thanks to this comment. I assumed that she at least had a couple of minions, which would explain the lack of continuity and general weirdness but no, the blame lies entirely on her.)
Back at the hospital, Lujan is trying to convince Marcos to get some rest, but he insists on staying. He asks Lujan not to tell anyone about his mom, as he doesn’t want them pitying him. Oh, Marcos. They already pitied you, because you’re such a freaking nerd.
The adults — and Rocco — go back to school, fretting over what to do about the cheating Uruguayans. Send them back to Uruguay! Make Argentina great again! And put me out of my misery with this whole stupid subplot! Anyway, Blas walks in, and the adults tell him that the Uruguayans have Elite Way’s game plan. Blas is like, “How could such a thing happen!” and Papa C’s like, “IDK, maybe you should be more subtle when you coach.” Hee. Destroy him, Papa C!
Tato brings Vico back to school, and Rocco immediately rolls up and gets all salty and possessive over her. Tato pulls a knife on him (dude!), and Rocco and Vico immediately freak out. Tato stares Rocco down for a bit and then leaves, and Rocco’s like, “Please tell me you’re going to break up with him NOW.” Vico gets mad at Rocco for being all up in her business and storms off.
In Mia’s room, Feli’s doing a duet of “Sweet Baby” with her stuffed alligator. That’s hilarious. Vico comes in, but she doesn’t want to talk about her night. Sol snarks to Feli that someone’s in a bad mood — she means Vico, but hey, this is a nice segue into talking about herself, as usual. Sol sighs that she didn’t have a good time hanging out with the Uruguayans, and she sees now that Leo is the only boy for her. Feli is crushed, but lets Sol go on about how much she likes him anyway. Whatever, Feli. Go find another boy, like someone who won’t drop you literally the second another girl shows interest in him.
Lola goes to tell Marizza that Diego’s fucking around on her, but Augustina intercepts her and tells her to stop messing in other people’s lives. She’s just saying that because Guido called her a snitch, isn’t she? Further proof that Guido ruins everything.
Laura fills Lujan in on the fight at the club. Lujan’s like, “Did Francisco get his teeth knocked out?” and Laura’s like, “Sadly no, he kissed me again.” Lujan thinks Francisco’s sexual harassment of Laura is cute. Laura asks what Lujan was up to, and Lujan BSes that she stayed in and exercised. HEE! Well, it’s believable, at least.
Francisco brings Guido and Tomas some weird milk concoction to help them sober up. Tomas spits it out, but Guido’s like, “Not bad.” Heh. Tomas wanders into the cafeteria to find something else to drink, and who should be in there but Pilar. She’s bawling her eyes out, and Tomas goes in to apologize to her. Aw. Tomas is the dumbest sweet boy.
Mia comes back, and Vico confronts her about going to her house. Yikes. Vico snaps at her to stay out of her life, and Mia’s like, “Dude, you clearly need help.” Vico doesn’t like that at all, and storms off.
The next day, Marizza announces that she has somehow found out what the winner of the tournament gets — a trip to Bariloche. Everyone is all hype like they’re not a bunch of rich kids who go on vacation wherever the hell they want. Diego macks on Marizza in front of the whole cafeteria, and Lola eyes them suspiciously. She tries to tell Marizza about Diego, but Marizza cuts her off and asks if Lola was trying to look like her at the party, with her white girl dreads and all. Lola cops to it, but admits that it doesn’t matter, as Pablo ran off with some rando Uruguayan girl anyway. Marizza says, “The problem isn’t you, or me, or any other girl. It’s him.” Hee. Lola takes none of this to heart, of course. Then she tells Marizza about Diego cheating on her, but Marizza doesn’t believe her, also of course.
All the girls get ready to go to the game. Sol gushes that Leo is coming to see her, and Feli’s dumb ass still doesn’t put together that Sol is trying to steal any guy that looks at Feli twice, and also that Leo is a fuckboy. UGH, FELI, YOU MAKE IT SO HARD TO LIKE YOU.
The boys gather at the field. Pitch. Whatever. I hate sports. Guido’s like, “Uh, so Pablo, just FYI, I kinda broke up with Lola for you last night.” Pablo’s all, “Oh, good, I didn’t want to dump my much younger emotionally fragile girlfriend myself.” Then Papa B shows up, and tells Pablo that his new girlfriend is coming. Pablo loses his shit, which is a little weird because he already knows that Papa B has a new girlfriend and that he’s getting weirdly serious with her. But as with all continuity snarls on this show, I will merely say WHATEVER and keep moving.
Marizza tells Lujan and Laura about Lola’s gossip. Laura’s like, “LOL my sister is such a liar.” Damn, that’s loyalty for you. Lujan, on the other hand, has been burned enough to be like, “IDK, men are kinda trash though.” Lujan knows what’s up, except when it comes to sexual harassment, apparently.
Speaking of men being trash, Gloria’s too hurt by the rugby coach to go to the game. Sonia’s like, “You have to go, and wreak vengeance!” Gloria’s like, “Ooh, did you say VENGEANCE?” and agrees to go. The magic telenovela word!
Meanwhile, Blas is trying to convince the boys that they should play to win for the honor and glory of Elite Way, and not because they want a free trip to Bariloche. Yeah, there’s no honor in this, Blas. That’s just facts, sorry. Anyway, Sabrina’s dad shows up, and Pablo freaks out that he’s going to talk to Papa B and Papa B will find out that Pablo’s still in Erreway. Pablo sends Manuel to distract Sabrina’s dad, which works out fine, as Sabrina’s dad wants to talk to him, too. He’s all like, “My beautiful fragile flower of a daughter is so depressed! You are the only person who can cheer her up! If you don’t start spending time with her again, she’ll DIE!” Manuel makes up some vague excuse about how he’s too busy, what with school, and the CD…then Papa B rocks up and asks, “What CD?”
Back at school, Dunoff and Mama D are fighting again, some more. Pilar comes in and asks if Mama D is coming to watch her cheer, and Mama D blows her off. Ouch. Dunoff agrees to go watch Pilar cheer, and they waltz off together. Yikes.
Marcos is skipping the game, as he is too emo to play. Lujan comes to see him, and he tells her that he’s planning on going to live with his dad in the north of Argentina. LITERALLY WHY. The whole point of boarding school is that you don’t have to live with your parents! Oh my God, whatever. And apparently he’s leaving like right now, and he says he’s going to pack while everyone’s at the game, so he won’t have to say goodbye. Lujan asks if that means they’ll never see each other again, and kisses him.
Over at the rugby pitch, Manuel is BSing about how he wasn’t talking about a disc like, a CD, he was talking about a disc like, the kind you use to make hamburgers! What? I don’t know. Their cover is almost blown, but then Papa B’s girlfriend calls for him and he walks away. Dang, Manuel is not good at lying. He’s lucky Mia isn’t smarter, or she definitely would’ve figured his cheating ways out by now.
The rival rugby team huddles up and evils that they’re going to destroy the Elite Way team. They’re all in the middle of their evil laughter when Sonia rolls up and tells the coach that he has an urgent call from Uruguay, and he has to go see Gloria about it. She’s waiting for him in a car, and once he gets in, she hops out and locks him in. Is…is this the whole extent of their revenge? Come on, you guys. FERNANDA could do better than this. Gloria yells at him for taking advantage of an innocent young girl such as herself, and may he try to escape until the blood flows from his hands! Jesus, Gloria, chill out.
Sol and Leo walk around near the field and make out. Fucking Leo! He’s the worst! I hate that I was ever even remotely complimentary about him. Feli sees them kissing and runs away. Sonia rounds the cheerleaders up and gives them a pep talk, but Feli is all emo now. Marizza is also emo when she finds out that Lujan stayed behind at school. She muses that something weird is happening.
Lujan goes to cry in the cafeteria, because that’s where everyone is doing their bawling in this episode. I guess the relative privacy of her room wasn’t dramatic enough. Marcos’s dad comes to talk to her, because for some reason he thinks any of this is Lujan’s business. He’s like, “Yeah, Marcos just has to accept that his mom is never going to love him, and he should probably just stay away from her for the rest of his life.” Touching! So Marcos is staying at Elite Way after all. And Marcos’s dad wants Lujan to be the one to tell him! Because that’s absolutely the kind of thing you put on your 15-year-old son’s ex-girlfriend! But then Marcos interrupts them, and his dad ends up doing the whole thing by himself anyway. He tells Marcos it’s for the best, and Marcos is like, “Yeah, I guess asking my mom to suddenly not be emotionally abusive is kind of a lot.”
Dunoff speechifies about how this game will bring honor and glory to Elite Way, blah blah that is never going to happen blah. Pablo and Guido notice that Tomas is distracted, and he admits that he’s looking at Pilar. Aw! The Uruguayans are like, “Dude, that’s a long-ass phone call that our coach is on,” but then again, it’s not like they have a game plan beyond “play dirty as hell and cheat to win”, so do they really even need him? Then the girls do a cheer routine to a techno remix(!) of “I Can See Clearly Now”, and naturally it’s perfectly choreographed as though they were actually doing anything at cheer practice besides yelling at each other and nosing into each other’s home lives. And then! Paloma shows up to support Diego! Expose him, Paloma!
The game starts, and Elite Way does surprisingly well, thanks to Pablo. The Uruguayans are all, “We must destroy him!” and they all dogpile him during the next play. Pablo wails that he can’t breathe, and Blas is all, “Suck it up, this high school rugby game is the most important thing that has ever happened to me!” Martavio and Marizza try to intervene, but then Papa B runs onto the field too, and he’s all, “Walk it off!”, so Pablo keeps playing. The Uruguayans start knocking over all the other boys, and they quickly start gaining on Elite Way.
At halftime, Paloma goes around looking for Diego. She runs into Marizza, who pulls her to the side to have a little “talk.” Don’t do it, Paloma! You’re going to end up wearing a cement overcoat! Lola and Augustina see this, and when Diego comes by looking for Marizza, Lola snarks, “She went off with that girl you were cheating with last night.” HEE! Diego runs off and manages to intercept them before Marizza can tell Paloma that Diego is cheating on her. Patricia Maldonaldo is just fucking with me now.
The adults gather, and Blas frets that the Uruguayan rugby coach is missing. He’s all, “I bet those meddling kids have something to do with it!” and gets all hype at the thought of punishing them. Gloria tries to explain, but he’s all, “Stop saying words, woman.”
Leo breaks up with Sol. He blathers on that he doesn’t know what to think when she blows him off one day and then is trying to mack on him the next. Sol is not pleased to be losing a boy’s attention at all — although in total fairness to her, Leo was all over her before the game started, and what, now his dumb ass is bleating that he doesn’t know if he likes her? Fuck Leo, man.
Meanwhile, Feli cries to Sonia that a boy she likes kissed her last night, but then he kissed another girl. See! Leo is the worst! Sonia tells Feli that she has to be proud and save face, and not let Leo know that he upset her. Leo runs up and Feli snarks at him that their kiss last night wasn’t a big deal — she makes out with boys in nightclubs all the time! I mean, she kind of does. Feli has a very active romantic life for someone who’s supposed to be ugly and unpopular. If this show was any kind of realistic, she’d be in her room writing fanfiction the way I was at fifteen. “So what did you want to tell me?” she asks. “Uh…nothing,” Leo says. “Great. Good luck,” Feli says, and waltzes off. HA! Suffer, Leo!
Papa B’s girlfriend has brought some dude named Javier to the game. He’s her son? Ward? Random kid she carries around with her? It’s not clear. Anyway, he’s off being a sk8er boi, and he skateboards right into Marizza. It’s a metaphor!
Martavio asks Sonia about the conversation they had last night, about telling Marizza the truth. “You’re going to tell her that you’re dating Papa C,” he says. “No, I meant I’m going to tell her that you’re her father,” Sonia says. Martavios like, “Oh, okay. Wait, WHAT?” I’m with you, Martavio. The prospect of this plot moving forward in any way at all is shocking to me, too.
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