Previously on Rebelde Way: All the boys on this show have suddenly become terrible, and they weren’t exactly princes before, either. Lola needs Francisco to be her fake boyfriend; in exchange, he wants Laura to spend the weekend with him. I mean, I guess I can kind of see where he’s coming from, forced date for forced date. Still, he doesn’t have to make quite such creepy eyes at Laura as he asks her. Laura yelps that she would never, lest we rehash the Lola/Francisco/Laura triangle all over again. Ha! Oh, Laura, if there’s one thing this show loves doing, it’s reusing its plotlines. She runs off before Francisco can wring a yes out of her, but she’s only delaying the inevitable.
In the cafeteria, Lujan is bemoaning PILAS’s struggles to Marcos, when Gloria comes in with a letter for him. The letter is from England, and — after a brief interlude of Marcos checking out Gloria’s ass, for some reason — Marcos decides that it’s from his mom, also for some reason. I don’t recall them ever mentioning her going there, but Marcos sees that there’s no return address, and comes to the conclusion that it’s from her. I mean, okay. He doesn’t want to open it, and runs away, leaving it with Lujan. Sure, that’ll end well.
Blas, sensing that Mia’s emotionally vulnerable, sends her a bunch of flowers. Marizza comes in, and coos that Manuel must have sent her flowers. Aw! I’m not over how charming Marizza’s become. Then she realizes that they’re from Blas, and she’s like, “Ew, burn them.” Hee! I love this new and improved Marizza. Mia insists that she and Blas are just friends, and Marizza’s like, “Sure, Jan Mia.” She’s in the midst of trying to convince Mia that Blas is still a creeper who’s trying to get into her pants when Sol rocks up, and asks if Marizza’s passed Sol’s photos on to Sonia. The look on Marizza’s face clearly says that she hasn’t, but Marizza lies and says that of course she has.
Guido passes out invitations to Pablo’s campaign party — sort of like the Democratic and Republic National Conventions, but with less speeches and more mid-2000s pop music. He passive-aggressively hands one to Vico and snarks that he hopes his classmate can make it to the party. She asks if it’s true that he’s going out with Augustina, and Guido starts trying to rub it in her face that he’s moved on and she hasn’t. Augustina rocks up and they flounce off together. I wouldn’t feel too bad, Vico. I mean, he’s dating a sophomore, it’s pretty embarrassing.
Then Rocco rolls up and says that Vico should tell him what happened, and she’s like, “We’re not friends, so…no.” She runs off and he’s about to go after her, when Marizza comes up and tries to ask him for help. He refuses, as the kids of Elite Way aren’t ready for his oratory genius, his complex metaphors, his deep themes. Oh, so that speech was entirely serious, then. “You’re a little weird,” Marizza says. Heh.
Mia visits Blas (nooo), and returns his flowers (yesss). She tells him she doesn’t want presents from him, and he condescends to her that he’s just trying to help her and be friends, and he gives flowers to all his friends. Mia hugs him, and Hilda walks in on them. Get him fired, Hilda! Redeem yourself for dropping the ball with Font!
Papa C receives the prints of his ad campaign, and is shocked to see that they’re of Sonia. And now for some objectifying closeups of Catherine Fulop in her underwear! Papa C’s like, “I am appalled! (And kind of turned on.)”
Lola stands outside the fourth year classroom and makes sad eyes at Laura. Whoa, do you think Laura’s going to cave and agree to Francisco’s deal? I would be shocked if so! Meanwhile, everyone needles Marizza about Pilar cheating the raffle — Pablo snarks that Marizza can’t even run a raffle, so how is she going to run the school? Tomás stands up for Marizza, because she runs for justice and all that; Feli, for her part, points out that Pilar is really the guilty one, and that if Marizza wants to salvage her political career, she has to get Pilar kicked out of the school. What the hell! It’s just a raffle, Feli! How many times is Pilar going to get nearly expelled this year?
Over in Dunoff’s office, the padres Dunoff are fighting over how serious, exactly, Pilar rigging the raffle was. I swear to God, it was a dick move, but everyone’s acting like she embezzled the money and then spent it on hookers and blow. Am I missing something, contextually? Are raffles super-serious business in Argentina? Dunoff advocates a hands-off approach, as he does with all things; Mama Dunoff thinks Pilar should be seriously punished. Dunoff’s like, “Fine, you discipline her.” Pilar fights with Mama D and goes crying to Dunoff, and he’s all, “I know! Your mom is sooo mean!”
Lujan reads Marcos’s letter, and tells him that it’s not from his mom, but it’s something good. It turns out to be an invitation for Marcos to represent Argentina in a show jumping competition, or something along those lines. Marcos doesn’t want to go because his brother died while horseback riding under the influence. Lujan’s like, “But, but, the thrill of crushing your enemies under your heel! Forget your brother!” Yeah, Marcos doesn’t take too well to that.
Laura gets called to the office, where she finds out that Lola’s injured her arm. See, Lola’s just sooo distressed over Francisco, that she’s…not able to walk straight anymore? I don’t know. She sighs that it’s okay that her arm is hurt, because she’s so used to PAIN and REJECTION, just like how FRANCISCO rejected her. Laura is guilted into helping Lola out.
Vico’s skanky mom calls her and she’s like, “So I talked to the landlord and you’re homeless now. Live at school or whatever. Bye.” Vico snaps that she’s better off anywhere without her mother, and Rocco overhears her. He assumes she’s upset over a boy, and tells her to channel her anger into something — the way artists do with art. “I’m not an artist,” Vico says. Rocco’s like, “But you could be! You’re a really good singer!” Vico is flattered, but also weirded out by how obsessed he is with that one song he heard her singing in the shower.
Guido and Pablo plan his party, but Pablo keeps looking longingly over at Tomás. Breaking up is hard to do! Guido tells Pablo to forget Tomás, and they walk off together. Tomás is sad. Then Francisco comes by, and starts in on a completely different topic: what’s up with Tomás and Ana? Tomás denies going out with Ana, which makes Francisco nervous. He’s also heard Tomás and Fernanda were going out, and Francisco’s kind of into Fernanda now, based on that one time that she kind of helped him garden but mostly threw a hissy fit and yelled at him. Francisco has weird ideas about girls. Tomás tells Francisco to stay away from Fernanda, because it doesn’t do to get too serious about the girls in this school. Oh. I thought he was gonna, you know, warn Francisco that Fernanda’s a crazy arsonist or something.
Papa C goes to see Sonia at the photoshoot. They fight, get up in each other’s faces, etc. Then Sonia reveals that Andres is her new agent, and Papa C’s like, “Say what?”
Marizza frets to Lujan and Laura that even though she returned all the raffle money, everyone is still mad at her and PILAS. Lujan and Laura are too preoccupied with their own personal problems to help her, and they all dramatically hang their heads. Pablo, Guido, Sol, and that random kid from their class who no one cares about all crow over how disgraced Marizza is. “Beer for everyone!” Guido calls. Ana’s like, “We don’t serve beer here, you dumbass.” Pablo’s like, whatever, there’ll be hella alcohol at the party. Yeah, and they’ll just hold it under the school roof with no consequences, because that’s how things work at Elite Way.
Back at Marizza’s table, Feli approaches them with Fernanda and Belen backing her up. They all want Pilar expelled, and Marizza gets all self-righteous about how she doesn’t want their support if they’re willing to get Pilar kicked out over this. Uh, if I were Marizza, I’d just point out that I don’t have the power to get another student expelled, but whatever.
Pilar sucks it up and apologizes to the cafeteria, then reveals that ’twas Pablo who helped her, not Marizza. Everyone’s like, “Oh shit, son!”
Meanwhile, creepy-ass Martin Andrade is at a hair salon, getting a makeover to transform him into Octavio Andrade, teacher at Elite Way school. He shows his hairdresser — who he keeps calling “brother”, and I don’t know if that’s literal or not — a picture of Sonia and Marizza, and flashbacks to meeting Sonia a long time ago. I mean, I’m guessing it was a long time ago, even though they didn’t bother to change any of their hair of clothes to indicate that. One day, Martin was in a desert, and he stopped to pour some sand out — on the desert, as you do — when he came across Sonia crying. She tells him that she’s trying to commit suicide because some guy did her wrong — also as you do — and Martin’s like, “You’re super hot, let’s go to dinner and then I’ll help you commit suicide wherever you like.” Dinner perks her right up, and instead of committing suicide, they have sex. He never saw her again, but now he’s like, “Omg, I spawned a daughter that night!”
His hairdresser and possible brother is like, “Okay…this seems flimsy but okay, you do you.” He…gives Martin a haircut? Maybe? I mean, he looks exactly the same as before.
Mia complains to Vico that she doesn’t want to go to Pablo’s party. Feli, on the other hand, is super excited, running in to show them her outfit. Mia yells at her for trying to get Pilar kicked out, and Feli says she can’t stand Pilar. Uh…since when? Whatever, I don’t care. Vico tries to break up their fight all, “You’re fighting over PILAR! Who cares about Pilar?!” Hee. Feli storms out to change elsewhere, and Sol watches her leave.
Pablo — or half of his face, anyway — and Guido try to come up with a way for Pablo to clean up his image. Guido tells Pablo that there’s only one thing to do, and hands Pablo his phone. Pablo calls Papa B, who comes to the school to tell half of Pablo’s face that he has to make up for his bad move by fulfilling one of his campaign promises, then lulling Marizza into a false sense of security by making nice with her. Papa B helps Pablo out by threatening Dunoff into extending recess, so Pablo can say that he’s accomplished that. Man, nepotism really gets you far. Realism!
Francisco tries to convince Manuel and Marcos to go to Pablo’s party with him. Neither of them want to go, emo as they are about their personal lives, but Manuel eventually agrees. I just realized they have a giant watch on their wall, too. Is that a new thing with the boys’ rooms?
Laura comes in and tells Francisco that she’ll spend the weekend with him. “We’ll have a lot of fun,” he promises, tucking her hair back for her. Ick.
Mia also doesn’t want to go to the party — Jesus, nobody wants to go to this party — because she’s afraid of running into Manuel. Vico gives the advice that the best friend always has to give in teen dramas: “You have to go to show him that you don’t care!” Didn’t Blas give Mia the same advice when she and Manuel first broke up? I mean, I appreciate that it’s not coming from him this time, but still, you’d think she’d remember that.
Vico calls her dad — presumably to ask if she can live with him? Maybe? — but his new wife picks up instead. Vico asks her to have her dad call back, but when her dad asks who called, New Wife says that it was a wrong number. Man, that’s fucked up. Vico waits and waits, but the phone doesn’t ring.
Hilda, bless her soul, reports Blas and Mia’s inappropriate hugging to Dunoff. Dunoff’s like, “Remember how last year, you and Mia were dating, and it was super nasty and everyone watching was grossed out? Let’s not do that again this year.” Blas is like, “I would never!” and Dunoff’s like, “Cool, sounds legit,” and that’s the end of it. I bet it’s not.
Sonia comes to see Marizza and gush over making Papa C mad, but they’re interrupted by Sol. Sol wants to know what Sonia thought of her pictures, and Sonia’s like, “What pictures?” She manages to recover and tells Sol that the agent loved her pictures, and he’ll be in touch. Surely this will end here and not snowball further into disaster! Sol leaves, and Sonia tells Marizza that she has to go to Pablo’s party, and show him up and prove that everyone should vote for her. Marizza looks very cutely touched by Sonia’s support. Aw!
In the bathroom, Feli cries as she puts on her makeup. Aw! I say this a lot, but even though she’s not especially great, Angeles Balbiani is really one of the better kid actors, and manages to pull off the heavy emotional scenes very well. She’s a much, much better crier than Luisana Lopilato, that’s for sure. Sol comes in and sweetly (but fake-ly) offers to do Feli’s makeup for her, and comforts her over her fight with Mia. She’s clearly stirring shit, but she’s not wrong when she tells Feli that Mia can’t force Feli to agree with her. “And if she’s your friend, she has to deal with it.”
In the…lounge? Hall? Somewhere in the school that they’ve never bothered to show us? Wherever we are, the party is raging. The illicit beer is flowing, everyone’s dancing, and none of the teachers have bothered to show up to chaperone. Guido dances with Augustina, while Lola looks on saltily. Pablo gets up on the stage and tells everyone that he’s managed to double their break time, and everyone applauds. Then he makes a show of asking Marizza to dance, to prove that he’s a nice candidate. It backfires, though, as in the midst of slow dancing with her, Pablo starts flashbacking to all the good times in season 1. The feelings are too real! He panics and shoves Francisco at her to keep dancing, then runs away.
Lujan finds Marcos still being emo, and he’s like, “Yeah, seeing my brother die from horseback riding under the influence and then getting blamed for it by my mother for ten years did kind of affect me, so YES, I am a little messed up over this.” Lujan comforts him and tells him that he has to confront his feelings, and not let his brother’s death stop him from doing what he loves. Fair enough. Marcos sniffles that he’s not strong enough, and Lujan’s like, “You survived all the drama of season 1 of this show, that seems pretty strong to me!” Marcos is convinced, and agrees to enter the competition.
Feli’s hanging out with Sol at the party, and Mia cuts in to ask where Vico is. Neither of them know, then Sol tries to shove Mia away so she can keep maneuvering herself into their friendship. Mia storms past Sol, and puts an L up to her forehead: “LOSER!” Ah, memories. Is she also going to make the W sign and say, “As if, whatever, get the picture, duh”?
Vico’s fallen asleep waiting for her dad to call, so then Rocco rolls up like a creep and holds her while she sleeps. Like so many things on this show, it’s meant to be romantic, but is mostly weird. He sings to her until she wakes up and she’s like, “What the fuck?”
I’m gonna be real, I actually like Vico and Rocco together, and I find his pursuit of her pretty sweet most of the time — it’s nice to see him actually not be a dick for a change, despite the fact that Vico is one of the ~prepz. That said, he’s also way too pushy. Then again, that’s par for the course on this show.
Marizza finds Pilar in the bathroom and they talk out their problems. Pilar admits to being jealous of all the other kids, and Marizza tells her to stop trying to be like the rest of them. She’s like, “Be yourself, and people will like the real you!” “But the real me is nosy and gossipy and loves stirring shit and manipulating people,” Pilar doesn’t say. Marizza says Pilar is too smart to be doing this dumb shit all the time.
Manuel runs into Mia at the party and they fight. She runs off, and he follows. To apologize? We’ll never know, because Mia runs into the waiting arms of Blas. Shouldn’t he be chaperoning? Isn’t that his one job?
STEP AWAY FROM THE UNDERAGE GIRLS!
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