I know! I–like probably many of us–started for Barbi but this was a show I’d have finished even without her.
You’re right, Marcela had a lot of really rough scenes, both her and Vera, and man, the one you’re talking about? Watching that was…I remember having my hand clenched around my water bottle so tightly, willing the scene to finish and not go back.
I feel like they could have gone lighter on that, but otherwise, I loved the mix of different stories and journeys and genres! Sometimes a funny roadtrip movie, sometimes coming of age, sometimes family drama, sometimes crime drama. And the four girls through it all. :>
Ughhh, Carly, that poor girl. The men on this show were almost all like, terrible to a bizarre degree. I could count on one hand the number of non-shitty guys. Literally. Vincente, Tobias, Mike, Vincente’s dad, that other guy from Tobias’s group. The others were…garbage. But the women were great, especially the older women! I really loved her relationship with her mom. And Carly was honestly so refreshing and great, genuine kindness driving her activism.
Ngl, when the show started, I was pretty ready to ship Rocio with Vera (they had a great friendship) or Marcela, she went out of her way to help her so much. But this was fine too. As long as she’s happy and free. I like that they’re just traveling around with their own personal doctor, lol. I actually preferred Vincente to Tobias, so I’d love to see her return and learn more from Juana.
I’m honestly also still just blown away at how they treated Vera and Marcela. Two MAIN characters, introduced in the first episode with their own central stories, seeing those stories unfold through the season and then becoming huge parts of each other’s. It was why we loved Juliantina so much as well, the richness of seeing two established, important characters Connecting, the reason we love subtext ships even now, because main character/side character ships simply can’t compare to the amount of screentime and focus main character/main character allows.To know these characters more deeply, to see them interacting, to see their effect on each other in every episode. Side characters just cannot provide that. Heh, I went to spam my friend to try to explain with the help of a very universal example:
