We all know the shitty trope where writers kill off a lesbian right after she has sex with the woman she loves, but do you ever think about how AAM instead had the queer woman suffer after she slept with the dude?? Like, Juliana’s day went from bad w sergio to worse w alacran. Obvs I’m not happy that Juliana suffered at all, but they turned that trope on its head, whether it was intentional or not. It sent a message of “look at all the bad that happens when u don’t let ur kid love who they love”

I do think about that! Not as a specific counter to that trope, I don’t even know if they were aware of it, but I do think in a very straightforward way, Lupe’s homophobia was responsible for all the troubles Juls went through. Including Sergio. That was framed as a Bad Thing to happen to Juls. Something she didn’t enjoy, something that caused trouble with her actual love, and something that put her in the position of being kidnapped.

Despite how wild the premise and actual plot was, AAM’s still a lot about morality and karma. It is pretty wild that they framed Lupe’s rejection of her kid as this clearly negative thing and then Sergio as one of the consequences of that.