Previously on Rebelde Way: Papa C has FINALLY put his big-boy pants on and tells Mia that her mom isn’t dead. Mia does not take it well: “You’ve stolen my entire identity from me!” She wibbles that she can’t believe Mama C is alive — she could’ve been any woman Mia passed by on the street! I mean, Mama C hasn’t been living in Argentina for the past 15 years, so…no, she couldn’t have been any woman Mia saw on the street in Buenos Aires. But whatever. Anyway, she’s predictably furious at Papa C and is all, “My life is a lie!”
She asks Papa C if she told her mother that Mia was dead, too. Papa C’s like, “Idk how to tell you this but your mother never called or asked about you or expressed literally any interest in you after she left.” Not in so many words. Mia doesn’t really seem to pick up on the implications here, and instead just yells at Papa C some more about how she understands why Mama C never wanted to see him again. “I just wish she’d taken me with her,” she snaps. Ouch. I actually won’t rag on Mia here, since I think this is a pretty realistic way a teenager might lash out, but…oof. Idolizing your absentee parent never works out, Mia! Dozens of young adult protagonists have learned that before you!
Javier tries to protest his innocence in the whole panty-stealing incident. He’s like, “You don’t have any proof it was me!” Oh, sure, now that he’s the one getting accused of something, Javier’s all in favor of due process. Dunoff’s like, “Actually getting to the bottom of this would take time and effort, and frankly I don’t wanna do it.” Javier storms over to Pablo’s room and tries to jump him, and then Dunoff has to come in (again) and break up their fight. He tells Javier that he’s no longer going to be punished at school. Javier: “Thank you!” Dunoff: “Because you’re suspended for two days instead.” Heh. Although, now that I’m thinking about it, can boarding schools suspend students? What are they going to do, not let him leave his room (which he also shares with Pablo)?
Seriously, why is this show even set at a boarding school anyway? All the kids except Francisco live in Buenos Aires; given how much time they spend at the school meddling, their parents are all clearly at home most of the time, too. The kids barely spend any time at school and half the scenes feature them running around the city. You could have set this at a regular school and it would have made zero difference to the plot. (I guess Manuel and Francisco would’ve needed a place to live, but Manuel could’ve gotten an apartment like Pablo does, and Francisco could’ve stayed with Tomás.)
Sonia lectures Marizza on lying to Hilda, and Marizza’s all snippy and whiny about how she knows she messed up, OKAY, and do they have KEEP TALKING ABOUT IT? Sonia’s like, “Wow, you’re even crankier than usual,” and cottons on that something’s wrong. Marizza confesses that she’s still upset over fighting with Lujan.
Papa C is still hanging around outside the school, being emo. Sonia comes across him and comforts him. Then we cut to Mia crying all over Marizza, who awkwardly suggests that they get out of the hallway, since everyone can see them. She brings Mia to her room and tells Lujan that she needs to leave so that Mia can have her bed. Oh, wow, that is harsh. Marizza, what are you doing!!!
Now let’s mood whiplash our way over to “Summer Loving (Guido and Laura’s Version)”! The two of them have another study session, and their friends start harassing them over how much time they’re spending together. Laura tells the girls that she just feels bad, you know, that Guido’s such a dumbass that he’s probably going to have to repeat 10th grade. Guido, meanwhile, lies to the boys that he and Laura are hooking up.
Mia overhears Laura’s Olivia Newton-John impersonation and asks what’s going on. Laura’s surprised to see Mia in Lujan’s bed, and Marizza says that Lujan changed rooms. (I can’t remember if I included that in an earlier recap or if I forgot that it was important — well, anyway, Lujan tries to change rooms because she and Marizza are fighting so much.) Laura says that the school refused to let Lujan switch, and Marizza freaks out that Lujan’s going to be spending the night who-knows-where. She starts to go after her, but Mia wibbles that she doesn’t want to be left alone. Look, I know Mia’s going through a hard time and all, but refusing to let Marizza look for Lujan, who’s potentially out on the street at night, is a dick move. You can cry alone for a few hours, Mia!
Meanwhile, Tomás has been driven into a frenzy by that one photo of Pilar in a bikini, and he sneaks off to her room. When Pilar comes in, he jumps her and takes his shirt off, which…freaks her out for some reason? I mean, obviously she’s not prepared to have sex with him RIGHT NOW, but wasn’t her whole plan to make him so sexually frustrated that he stops trying to stay away from her? What was the goal here???
Papa C decides to let Mia see Mama C, but when he calls Mama C’s hotel, she’s already gone.
Over at the hospital, Manuel is still trying to recover his mental faculties, as apparently he can no longer read, either. He gets frustrated and storms off, and the nurse tells Manuel’s doctor that Manuel is never gonna get better if he keeps resisting therapy.
I guess we never find out where exactly Lujan spent the night, since the next day, she’s in class with everyone else. She watches Feli and Vico approach Mia, but Mia refuses to talk to anyone except Marizza. Feli and Vico are weirded out by this, and Lujan stomps over to tell them that Mia and Marizza are so close now, Marizza kicked Lujan out of her own room so that Mia could sleep there.
The rest of the kids are just fucking around; Tomás tries to hit on Pilar some more but she pushes him off. Michi comes in and asks why the hell they aren’t studying. “Because this isn’t a real school and we have no discipline or structure,” no one says.
Over at Casa Bustamante, Papa B is yelling at Javier for getting suspended. Javier BSes that he only got in trouble because he threw hands defending Papa B’s honor. He’s like, “I can’t be suspended! I’m going to miss finals!” What? That’s not how suspension works! Whatever. Papa B vows to go down to the office and have words with Dunoff, and Javier smirks to himself.
I truly do not get the point of Javier. Like, this has to be the sixtieth time he’s pulled this gambit, and it never does anything to change the status quo of the show. What does he have to be so smug about? Like, Papa B’s going to yell at Dunoff and Pablo won’t suffer any consequences again?
Mia and Marizza hang out in the hallway together. Mia reveals why she’s chosen Marizza to be her new bestie — she thinks they understand each other, seeing as they both spent their lives living a lie about their parents. Marizza’s like, “Okay, I had successfully repressed my abandonment by both my father figures, but thanks for bringing it up again.”
Lalo tells Feli that his aunt is planning to rent her house out, and she’s giving him first dibs on it, if he and Feli want it. Feli frets about what to do, for reasons that I…don’t really understand? I mean, she’s already planning to move in with him in that janky apartment — isn’t a house an upgrade, even if it’s small? Whatever. Mia doesn’t care either, and blows Feli and Vico off when they try to talk to her about it. Feli and Vico are all offended that Mia seems to be favoring Marizza’s company over theirs.
Marizza’s pep talk has apparently given Mia the courage to talk to her dad again, because she asks him to come see her at school. It turns out that she just wants to yell at him some more for lying to her, blah blah how could you blah blah my life is a lie blah. She wants to see Mama C again, but Papa C tells her that her mother left the hotel and now he doesn’t know where he is. Mia snaps that he’s probably lying, because all he does is LIE and RUN like a COWARDLY CUSTARD, and that must’ve been why Mama C left him. Papa C tells her that Mama C abandoned them both, and she never wanted to see Mia, either. “Sorry, Franco, but I don’t believe you anymore,” Mia says. OUCH. She stomps off while “Tiempo” plays in the background. Hey, we haven’t heard that song in a while! Come back, Tiempo! I missed you!
Michi tells Dunoff that Hilda didn’t show up for work today, and none of her friends have heard from her. Dunoff’s like, “Did you call Sonia?” and Michi’s like, “Well, no, not her, I didn’t want to bother her.” Dunoff’s like, “For fuck’s sake! There’s a senior citizen missing! Now is not the time to worry that you might wake Sonia up from a nap!”
In the cafeteria, the boys — Tomás, Guido, Marcos, Diego, and Francisco — are talking about sex, as they so often do. Tomás mentions that Guido and Laura hooked up and Guido has to keep his lie going in front of the rest of the guys. All the guys congratulate him except for Marcos, who’s offended on Laura’s behalf. He storms off and the other boys make fun of him for not knowing that women are all the same. Francisco’s like, “Ha ha, who knew Laura was so easy!” God, I hate him.
Dunoff gets a call from the juvenile court, following up about Lujan. Dunoff is surprised, naturally, and says that he was never told about their visit. Okay, Dunoff is the worst, but in total fairness, he really is surrounded by idiots.
Papa B comes to see Dunoff and asks if he’s spying on Miranda, as Papa B asked him to. Did he ask him to do this before? Did I just not notice? That might’ve happened. Well, whatever, as we know, Papa B is shady and Miranda is trying to take him down, and apparently Papa B is trying to get dirt on Miranda too. Glad we covered that.
Papa B is also not at all pleased that Javier has gotten suspended and Pablo hasn’t. Dunoff says that Javier has an attitude; he’s a sneaky brown-noser with a hidden agenda! Papa B says that Pablo should be punished, not Javier. Dunoff protests that Pablo didn’t do anything worth of punishment, and Papa B flips his lid and yells that Pablo NEEDS to be suspended, so that he’ll miss school and fall behind in his classes, and then he’ll HAVE to come crawling back to Papa B, cap in hand. Wow, way to be subtle about your motives there.
Marizza apologizes for Pablo for getting mad at him because he wanted to talk about his abusive dad. Pablo emos some more about how shitty his family is, and sighs that at least Marizza’s parents are normal. Marizza’s like, “I mean, my mom lied to me about who my real dad was for 15 years, and then my real dad showed up and faked his way into being an art teacher here for a solid six months before telling me who he was.” Pablo’s like, “Well, at least your parents actually love you,” which is a fair point. He starts crying all over her, and it would be quite sweet and emotional if they weren’t doing this in the main stairway in front of everybody.
Case in point: Papa B walks up and sees them together. He tells Pablo he wants to talk to him; when Pablo predictably doesn’t react well, he says, “I’d LIKE to talk to you.” Shockingly, using the conditional tense doesn’t soften Pablo up, and Pablo snaps that if Papa B wants to know anything about him, he can ask Javier: “I know he’s your snitch.” Then he adds that Papa B is dead to him. Papa B actually looks kind of distressed by this.
Miranda sits Feli and Lalo down and tells them that their relationship isn’t working: Lalo is working 24/7 and doesn’t have any time for his new family; Feli clearly can’t accept that she’s going to have to downgrade her living style. He’s like, “You two need to learn to communicate and really figure out what your lives are going to look like. For example, Feli actually hates that apartment you picked out, Lalo.” HEE! Miranda is such a shit-stirrer. Feli protests that they’ll live in his aunt’s house and everything will be fine — so I guess she’s cool with renting it after all — and Miranda says that it’s one thing to think she’ll be fine with it, it’s another to actually live with it. He says he just wants them to think about it, but he’s not going to fire Lalo or anything. Feli kisses him on the cheek and thanks him. I don’t really understand this scene at all. I mean, Miranda’s right, but he also just basically exposed that Feli’s been lying about how she feels, and has accused Feli of not being able to handle living with Lalo, and the two of them are just like, “Thanks for telling us :)”
Francis the modeling agent calls Sol and chews her out for missing her hair appointment. Belen comes up while Sol’s phone is ringing and like…really aggressively asks if it’s Maxi. I mean, Sol is awful, but Belen is still willingly friends with her, so I don’t know why she’s so angry about Sol’s life choices. Anyway, Sol tries to explain that she can’t leave school, but Francis snaps at her that she better get to the salon NOW or the whole deal’s off.
Sonia tells Marizza that Hilda’s missing. She went to Hilda’s house and found that all her stuff was gone (like…all of it? Because she only had that one suitcase when we saw her); Hilda’s left town forever. Again, like, this feels like a very dramatic reaction to finding out that 2 students cheated on their homework. High schoolers??? Cheating??? Perish the thought.
Marcos goes up to Laura and is like, “So…not judging you or anything, but have you considered NOT sleeping with Guido?” Laura’s like, “Say what?” and Marcos says that Guido’s telling everyone that they hooked up. Laura storms off in a fury. She goes to her room and tells Lujan that she was right; Guido is a douche and he’s never going to change. I mean…yeah, that’s true.
Laura notices that Lujan is packing up her stuff, and Lujan says that she’s found another room to sleep in, and it’s way better than this popsicle stand. It’s clearly a lie, but Laura doesn’t call her out on it.
Marizza comes up with a plan to get Hilda back: she’s going to paper the entire city with posters apologizing to Hilda, and she wants Michi’s help with it. Michi’s like, “I mean, it’s not a great plan, but I guess we have literally no other ideas.”
Lujan’s super-special-awesome new room is actually the alcove under the stairs in the school basement, to the surprise of no one. She sadly sets up her trophies and pulls out her blanket while Annie Lennox plays in the background.
Sol lies to Dunoff that her dad is sick so that she can leave school and go to her hair appointment.
Feli tells Lalo that she wants to rent his aunt’s house, and they’ll live there together with the baby. Lalo asks if she’s sure, since the house is in a poor neighborhood and all. Feli says that it’s going to take some effort to adapt, but she wants to try. And idk if it’s just the early-2000s bubblegum pop in the background, but I think it’s actually kind of a sweet scene.
Cut to: an extreme closeup of Bubbaloo, just in case this show hasn’t already broken you down and made you buy a pack already. Fernanda and Belen are eating some gum in the lounge, as you do, when Pilar comes in. She sees Tomás across the room and panics that he’s going to try and jump her. She tells Belen and Fernanda about her predicament, and they look over to see Tomás take Pilar’s panties out in the middle of study hall and sniff them. DUDE! GROSS! Fernanda and Belen are like, “Okay, yeah, you need help.”
Laura tells Marizza and Marcos that Lujan has left their room, since the school managed to find her an open room. They’re all confused as to how that worked out, and Marcos says that he’s going to ask Michi. After he leaves, Laura asks how long Marizza’s going to hold her grudge against Lujan. “Why don’t you just put your pride aside and talk to her?” she asks. “I don’t want to,” Marizza says. Laura: “Don’t want to, or can’t?” Marizza does not like that at all.
Pilar puts her, Belen, and Fernanda’s plan into action. We’re not told what it is, but she invites Tomás into the cabinet under the stairs, and he like, monkey-walks over there with a doofy grin on his face. I feel sorry for Coco Maggio for having to do this. Anyway, once he sees Pilar, he’s all horrified for some reason that we’re going to find out in the next episode.
Marcos asks Michi about Lujan’s room change, but Michi denies having done so. In the midst of their argument, the juvenile court guys walk back in and are like, “But for real, we need to take Lujan to court now.” Michi and Marcos are shook.
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