Previously on Rebelde Way: Manuel and Pablo decided that they were going to win over Mia and Marizza, respectively, with a grand gesture. Grand gestures never backfire! Just ask Seth Cohen!
Their grand gesture turns out to be a fireworks show and a band serenading the girls. I like that they went in on this together, to economize. Sol thinks that the fireworks are for her — “Who else would they be for?!” and then Pablo and Manuel step up and announce that this is for Marizza and Mia. They each confess to the girl of their choice that they love them, and join the band in serenading them. Mia and Marizza both roll their eyes. Feli gushes that this is the most romantic thing that she has ever seen in her life, and next to her, Vico rolls her eyes, too. HEE!
Mia and Marizza both look slowly charmed by this, but then Marizza reminds her that the boys are probably just fucking with them. When the show is over, Pablo and Manuel come scrambling over to them to ask if they liked it. “Yeah,” Mia deadpans at them. Marizza is more direct: she starts throwing flower pots at Pablo and Manuel. Everyone looks on in shock, except for Lujan, who’s clapping her hands at all the violence. (Vico is also amused, God bless her man-hating soul.) I love everything this scene chooses to be.
Meanwhile, Marcos and Laura are in the not-library, being boring. They start discussing the recent drama with Lola, and Marcos reassures Laura that Lola’s not really a bad person. Laura says that she knows, and wonders if SHE’S the reason her relationship with Lola is so terrible. She thinks it’s because she’s kind of cold and unemotional, and she can’t relate with Lola. There’s also the lying to her about being adopted thing, Laura, don’t forget that. Laura says she wishes she could be more like Lola or Marizza, and Marcos is like, “Don’t say such things!” and makes out with her to distract her. But they’re both suddenly weirded out, much like I am by their entire relationship.
Pablo and Manuel go to Pablo’s room, where Tomás, Guido, and Francisco are waiting for them. They throw confetti at them and congratulate them on being the most romantic guys on the planet. Like these idiots know anything about romance. Francisco’s never had a consensual romantic encounter in his entire life. They whine about how the girls were laughing at them, and Pablo’s like, “I know! We’ll just tell them we’re drunk and we didn’t mean any of it!” Way to make Marizza trust you even less, Pablo!
Like, it’s actually painful that Pablo’s doing exactly what Marizza is afraid of him doing out of pride, but it’s also understandable. As far as misunderstandings go, it’s not at all contrived, and it feels like drama that comes very naturally out of these characters’ feelings and personalities. Pablo and Marizza really are well-written, for telenovela characters.
In the girls’ room, the room is taking sides: half the girls think that was some dumbass shit, while half think that it was the most romantic thing they’ve ever witnessed, ever. Sol is all salty that the show wasn’t for her, and she’s like, “UM, being serenaded isn’t even romantic ANYWAY.” “Who gave you permission to talk?” Mia asks. Hee. Sol and her friends, except Pilar, storm off. Sol takes a parting shot that she can’t believe Mia would forgive Manuel, after he cheated on her and humiliated her in front of God and everybody. Everyone gets mad at her, but uh…she’s not wrong.
The rest of the girls want to keep talking about it, but Mia and Marizza BS some excuse about going to the cafeteria so they can be alone with their emotional turmoil. (Lujan, to Mia: “I’m also hungry, can you bring me something?” Heh.)
Marizza goes to the vending machine, and Pablo finds her there. He immediately plays drunk and starts falling all over her and confessing his love again. Marizza sighs that he’s drunk and blows him off.
Meanwhile, Manuel finds Mia alone in the cafeteria. Uh-oh, being alone with Manuel in a dark place can’t possibly end well. Hilariously, she immediately figures out that he’s faking drunk, and Manuel’s like, “Okay, fine, I’m not drunk on alcohol, but I AM drunk on love.” Ugh. He starts whining at her again that she should just forget everything that’s happened, because it’s all in the past. Mia snipes at him that their relationship is in the past for her, too. Manuel bleats that being in a relationship means forgiving each other’s mistakes. Okay, but that’s for like…stuff that’s not cheating and attempted rape, Manuel. AND THEN! He has the audacity to tell Mia that he’s forgiven HER mistakes, and Mia correctly says, “MINE?” Manuel tells her that he forgives her for what she did in Bariloche, and Mia reminds him that they had already broken up by that point, and it’s none of his business. Instead of apologizing, because LOL Manuel apologizing, what a concept, he changes the subject. He swears to her that he stopped seeing Sabrina and he only wants to be with her, but Mia won’t believe him and runs away.
Well, that scene just made me hate Manuel more than ever. Seriously, what a terrible person he is. Also, Luisana Lopilato is never going to win any awards for acting, but she does play indignant very well.
Back in the girls’ room, Pilar gets them back on track and tells them about Dunoff hiring a new art teacher. All the girls are shocked, because once a teacher leaves Elite Way, they never get a replacement and the class is usually just taken off the curriculum. Marizza’s all upset to realize that this means that Martavio is gone. Cheer up, Marizza! This is a good thing!
Then Blas comes in and says that the girls are in trouble for the serenade, because…they were there. Fucking Blas. All the kids go downstairs and have to do sit-ups, including everyone who wasn’t involved, like Marcos and Javier. I mean, I enjoy Javier suffering, but he wasn’t even in this. Tomás tells the boys about Martavio getting fired — I love that he gets gossip from Pilar now, God bless — and all the kids are shocked, like Martavio didn’t do a bunch of shit there that would’ve gotten a teacher fired at any normal school.
The next day, the kids all fret about what’s going to happen to Martavio. Pablo says he’ll talk to his dad and see what’s going on, but then Javier rocks up and says that he’s already taken care of it. He called Bariloche, and found out that Martavio is back in Buenos Aires. Pilar says that this doesn’t mean Martavio is getting hired back, because they already found a new teacher. “But why?” Feli wails. Uh…because Martavio lost like five kids in the span of three days, two of his students were charged with attempted rape, and he actively provided them with alcohol even though they’re underage? FOR STARTERS. Oh, and he’s also not even a licensed teacher to begin with.
Over in Dunoff’s office, Sonia’s crying all over him about how Marizza won’t talk to her, not that she’s able to give details. Dunoff assures her that this whole family therapy thing will work out fine, and asks Gloria to drag Marizza to the office when she’s out of class.
In class, Vico asks Mia what happened to Rocco, as he’s not here today. Mia tells her that Rocco got suspended. Then Gloria comes in and tells Marizza to come to the office. Marizza takes a minute to talk to Lujan and tell her that, since Marizza’s meeting with Dunoff, Lujan has to steal Blas’s information while Gloria’s out of the office. Lujan runs off to go get the papers, and Hilda’s like, “Everyone’s ditching my class :(“
On their way to the office, Marizza’s like, “Gosh, Gloria, do you have any idea why the Dunoffs are divorcing? They’re so perfect together. It must be because of the other woman.” Gloria’s like, “What other woman?” and Marizza’s like, “Don’t you think it’s suspicious that Michi just got a job here?” Uh…not really? Elite Way has proven time and time again that they have zero standards for who they hire? Michi is actually a semi-decent adult and probably MORE qualified than half the faculty? Anyway, Gloria’s like, “Tell me more!”
Blas nearly catches Lujan rifling through Gloria’s stuff, but then Marizza and Gloria come in, and he doesn’t.
Lola asks Pablo if it’s true that he confessed his love to Marizza the other night and set off fireworks and hired a mariachi band for her. Pablo’s like, “Me, date Marizza! What a concept! So wacky!” This reassures Lola (oh girl, it shouldn’t) and she switches focus to Laura’s potential legal trouble. She wants Pablo’s help, and Pablo’s like, “I don’t know anything about the law,” and Lola’s like, “Please, your dad is basically in the mafia, he has to know something about getting things done.” Pablo’s like, “You got me there.”
In Dunoff’s office, Marizza’s giving Sonia the cold shoulder while Sonia cries at her. Marizza finally says that she wants Sonia to take her out of the school, and leverages Sonia’s guilt to make her do it. Weirdly, she apparently meant literally, because the next scene is Sonia driving out with Marizza hiding in the backseat. Marizza says that she wants to see Martavio, and Sonia protests that he’s like, BARELY Marizza’s father, and she just knows that he spent all his time in Bariloche telling Marizza lies about Sonia. Sonia, that would require him to have spent any time at all with the kids in Bariloche. Marizza storms out of the car, hell-bent on seeing Martavio, because this show has such a weird boner for him and really seems to think that he’s a good dad.
Marcos confesses to Manuel that he has a problem: he likes Laura, but he doesn’t think he LIKE-likes her, because when they kiss, he doesn’t feel anything. Are you telling me you chased her and dicked Fernanda around for like ten episodes for nothing? He admits that he didn’t feel anything with Fernanda, and Manuel’s like, “Then why did you date her?” and Marcos bleats that she was just chasing him all the time, and he was too weak-willed to say no even though he fully had a girlfriend at that time. Manuel sighs that it sucks when girls pressure you.
WHAT? WHAT??? ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MANUEL??? IT SUCKS WHEN GIRLS PRESSURE YOU??? GET FUCKED!!!!!
Patricia Maldonaldo is just straight-up trolling us, I swear to God.
Anyway, Manuel tells Marcos that the solution is to just find a girl that he DOES get all tingly over, and Marcos shamefacedly admits that he didn’t have a problem getting it up when he was with Lujan. Awkward.
Marizza goes to Martavio and asks if it’s true that he got fired. Martavio says that it is, but he doesn’t really care because the whole point of him going to Elite Way was to stalk her. And he successfully did, so everything’s fine! Marizza wants him to come back, and he’s surprised that she’s not mad at him. Marizza’s like, “I’m only mad at my mom, because this show is a hot mess of early 2000s misogyny.” Martavio actually steps up and points out that he hasn’t exactly been the best dad, what with being an entitled stalkery weirdo, so she should really be mad at the both of them. He says they should learn how to be father and daughter together, and they go out to walk his dog. It’s actually kind of nice.
You know what’s not nice? This next scene, where Francisco once again tries to convince Mia that what Manuel did wasn’t that bad. Okay, a) Francisco literally had to pay a woman to touch his dick and b) even if he hadn’t, he’s the only one in their class who’s not in a relationship, so what does he even know? (I know he supposedly had a girlfriend back home, but like, did we ever see her? She doesn’t count.) Francisco tells Mia that in the grand scheme of things, cheating isn’t that big of a deal — does she really want to lose Manuel forever over this? I think losing Manuel forever would be the best thing that could ever happen to Mia, but whatever.
Luca the Not-Lawyer shows up, and Mia tells Francisco to fuck off so she can talk to him. Luca says that everything has been arranged with the detective — they just need a photo of Mia’s dad so they can stalk him. Plot twist! Mia wants her dad to be followed, not Manuel. Luca invites Mia to have dinner so he can explain things “somewhere quieter.” He’s not subtle. Francisco overhears this and runs off to tattle to Marcos that Mia’s going to have dinner with another guy. They’re like, “Manuel won’t like this!” Hey, if Manuel didn’t want Mia to hang out with other guys, maybe he shouldn’t have cheated on her.
Gloria is all mad that Dunoff’s dating Michi. Every time he asks her to do something, she gets all salty and she’s like, “Why don’t you ask MICHI to do it?” Because…you’re the receptionist, Gloria? It’s your job? Oh, God, is Gloria still hung up on Dunoff? Love yourself, woman!
Pilar rants to Tomás that she’s tired of her parents, and she doesn’t want to choose between them. Tomás is really comforting and sweet with her and I KNOW he’s a douche, but he is SO CUTE with Pilar. I’m so weak, you guys 🙁 Pilar would rather stay with her mom, but not if it means she has to leave Elite Way and Tomás. He hugs her, and then Pablo and Guido come sliding in. They tell him to come play pool with them, but Tomás is like, “I’m busy with my crying girlfriend, you idiots.” HEE! Dammit, Tomás and Pilar are my OTP. I hate myself.
Guido’s like, “Wow, I can’t believe Tomás doesn’t treat his girlfriends like garbage. What’s wrong with him?” What’s wrong with YOU, Guido?
Martavio and Marizza go to a park together and bond. Some guy gets up in Martavio’s face, and Martavio pretends to be blind to get him off his back. Father and daughter have a hearty chuckle. Impersonating the disabled is hilarious! Sonia drives up and sees them bonding, and starts crying in her car.
Marcos and Francisco thankfully come down on the side of not telling Manuel about Mia seeing other guys this time, but it doesn’t matter, because Manuel sees Mia in the cafeteria with Luca and loses his shit anyway. He’s all, “You don’t even CARE that I serenaded you!” and you know what? She doesn’t have to, Manuel! She literally doesn’t owe you a damn thing — you cheated on her, she dumped you, and now her romantic life is none of your business. AND YOU HAVE STUPID HAIR. Francisco and Marcos drag Manuel out while he shrieks that he’s going to kill Luca. Luca’s just like, “Whatever.” Ooh, Luca should sue him. That would be funny.
Dunoff goes off to announce to the fourth year class that Martavio is officially fired, and they’re getting a new art teacher. The class immediately starts protesting, and Dunoff has to yell at them to calm down. You know, Dunoff could save himself a lot of grief if he just made these announcements over the PA like at a normal school. The class insists that Martavio doesn’t deserve to be fired because the kids had alcohol — he didn’t even know about it, because he was in the hospital. THAT IS A FILTHY LIE! Martavio’s negligent ass looked in their bag full of alcohol, and handed it back to them and told them to have fun. This is revisionist history!! Fake news!!
Anyway, Javier stands up and makes this big speech about how unjust it is that Martavio was fired, and how he won’t accept a new art teacher. YOU DON’T EVEN GO HERE, JAVIER. He’s all, “Who will stand with me for great justice?” and all the kids start dramatically, in slow-motion, sitting on their desks. HA! It’s not that serious, you guys. That said, it’s not entirely unrealistic. I remember every time my high school changed teachers, we (collective “we”) bullied the shit out of the new teachers for no real reason. Teenagers are brutal.
Dunoff storms out in a huff, but promises to absolve anyone who decides to abandon the ~resistance~ in the next five minutes. Sol, Belen, and Fernanda waltz out, as does Diego. Mia’s like, “But Martavio was so cool in Bariloche!” “Yeah, I didn’t go,” Diego says with a shrug. HA! I’m starting to come around on Diego, you guys. The remaining kids decide they have to come up with a plan to get Martavio back.
Sabrina comes by, and tells Sol that she’s tired of running to this school on the off chance Manuel isn’t obsessed with Mia anymore. Sol reassures her that Manuel is THIS CLOSE to falling in love with Sabrina, and Sabrina’s like, “Oh, okay.” So close, yet so far, Sabrina.
Gloria is still upset that Dunoff is asking her to do her job, so when Etchamendi calls, she very loudly tells him that the fourth years are causing trouble again and Dunoff can’t keep them under control. Dunoff’s like, “Why would you say that?!” and Gloria huffs that maybe he should get MICHI to answer the phone. Dunoff’s like, “Dude, DO YOUR JOB,” and Gloria wails that she doesn’t know what’s come over her, and she has to go now. Then she gets her coat and leaves. And yet somehow, she’ll still have a job tomorrow. Gloria’s job security is excellent.
Sonia finds Martavio and Marizza at the park. Marizza’s all mad at her for interrupting their father-daughter time, but Sonia tells them that drama is going down at school, and it involves Martavio.
The ~resistance~ is still hanging out in the classroom, trying to figure out how to get Martavio back. They decide to go talk to Dunoff and maybe Etchamendi — like that’s ever helped anything in the history of ever — and then Michi comes in to sneak them food. Blas almost catches her, so she puts on a big show of yelling at the kids for fucking up the cafeteria. I mean, I believe that they did that, too. Then on her way out, she tells Blas that they have the same color contact lenses. Blas: “I don’t wear contact lenses.” Michi: “Me either.” Heh.
Michi goes to the office and sees Dunoff looking all nervous and sweaty. She’s like, “Dude, what’s up with you?” He always looks like that, Michi. It’s not a big deal. Then Marcos, Manuel, Francisco, and Pablo come in and demand to meet with Etchamendi. They say they’re not moving until they get a meeting with him, and they’re willing to write a sternly-worded letter, too! Bold of them to assume any of them can string a sentence together. Dunoff says he’s going to call their parents, and they’re like, “Actually, you know what? Nevermind.” Hee. He has their number.
Michi is like, “You need to calm down!” and starts like, rubbing his shoulders and wrapping her entire body around his face. It’s weird. Then Papa B walks in, and he’s like, “What the fuck?” Whatever, like he hasn’t gotten weirder massages in his life. He asks Dunoff what kind of drama is happening at this school now, and Dunoff admits that the fourth year are being ~rebelde~ again.
In the classroom, Manuel is whining at Francisco about Mia’s romantic life again. He’s like, “That lawyer guy is way too old for her! And so was the guy in Bariloche!” Isn’t Manuel like, twenty at this point? Just because you’re pretending to be a high schooler doesn’t mean you’re any more age-appropriate, Manuel! Francisco tells Manuel to just forget about everything with Mia, and Manuel wibbles that he can’t, she’s just so pretty. Shut up, Manuel.
Meanwhile, Mia is also staring at Manuel. Feli tells her to quit it, and Vico tells Mia that she needs to get over Manuel by getting under Lucas. Okay, she definitely pronounces his name with an S, so I’m guessing it is Lucas, not Luca. It was hard to tell there. Anyway, Mia wails that she’s not into Lucas at all, and that serenade really was SO romantic. Maybe she should get back together with Manuel after all! Vico’s like, “DO NOT!” She rightly makes the point that Mia won’t be able to trust him ever again — or at least she’s going to have some real problems doing so. Just then, Sol waltzes in and loudly announces that she has a letter for Manuel, from Sabrina. Vico’s like, “What did I tell you?”
Papa B comes in and announces to the class that he’s come to talk to them about their little protest. Manuel’s like, “Uh, we don’t want to talk to you, we want to talk to the school board.” Papa B tells them that the school board doesn’t mean anything, because HE is the owner of Elite Way. All the kids are shocked. Papa B tells them that if they want to take adult actions — like protesting — they have to deal with adult consequences. So he’s brought in like…a random legal secretary or something, and anyone who continues with the protest will get kicked out of Elite Way. And Pablo gets to be the first one to choose! Let’s all pretend to be held in suspense, because let’s be real, no one has ever gotten kicked out of this school ever.
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