Thoughts about Sergio?
Not a fan. The cracks about Juls’s social status, his actual revulsion at her selling lottery tickets, OUTING VAL (and Juls), whatever. And he’s constantly enabling Lucho’s terrible behavior. As if it’s so great that he stops him from literally punching women when often he’s bringing Lucho to them (he was driving when they followed Val to Silvina’s house where Juls was staying) or going along with him. And then he’s surprised when Lucho goes off and does literally the same thing he’s been threatening to do for the last few days, attacking Val.
Do you think that Lupita knows about Juls & Val and was trying to tell Juls that she’s okay with it? Or was she just showing her support without actually knowing what was going on? It just kills me that Juls doesn’t have any one to talk to about this. Or at least she feels that way. Because besides Val, her mom is the only one she has. And I get that she can’t risk losing her.
Ugh, yeah, Juls is sooo isolated, it’s painful to see. To keep that all inside, no friends or family or even a random anonymous stranger online to just say it to, it’s gotta be eating her up inside. And that it’s her mom she’s keeping this from, who she’s so close to otherwise. How happily she would share with Lupe the details of each time she hung out with Val and now it’s all just silence and fear of text messages being seen.
I do think Lupe knows. Right? I can’t understand the scene otherwise. Hinting so strongly at a secret, being so soft and solicitous, like, it’s gotta be on her mind that Juls and Val could be a thing, after how they were interacting right in front of her the other day (technically, the day before). What else would she be showing her support for? If Juls comes home in a bad mood, why all the talk of sadness and secrets?
Can you believe these girls went from strangers, to besties who teach each other to dance & swim, then to stupidly adorable couple who counts pinky promises as binding pacts, and giggles way too much on a car ride … in A FEW FREAKING MONTHS? I just wanna say, i’m happy they are out there, living their best life (sshh the last eps are just for telenovela drama, they’ll be fine)
Honestly, with the instant connection they had, and the circumstances under which it was further forger under, meeting while grieving for a parent, kidnap after kidnap, I would have believed if they’d gone all through that in a few weeks!
And you know, tbh, I didn’t think the last eps were that bad. Bad, but not that bad. They were able to make it through a fight, Val stood up to her sister, and then despite being torn to shreds by her was still was able to go back to Juls and do the soft little pact reminder and then after some sudden and vicious bullying, with the help of her secret dad was able to actually come through with new fortitude on how to approach everything, including drinking.
They’re facing a bunch of bad things right now, Lucho, Eva (and her hypocrisy! EXPERIMENTED IN COLLEGE???), being outed left and right and homophobia and bullying from others (friends, I thought :/) but these are all framed as obstacles for them to overcome together. They’re not still fighting each other or feeling conflicted about their feelings, the kind of stuff we’d actually hate.
God, one thing LGBT stories everywhere–whether they’re from countries new to them or…a bit less new–need to learn to do is treat outing like the horrible thing it is. It isn’t some sharing of a juicy secret.
Cheating is bad, everyone knows that. A lot of people don’t seem to get that outing is terrible! Shows will still do it for the drama, fine, but condemn it within the narrative.