#nieves

Warja Lavater, Pictograms, Nieves, Zürich, 2008 [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich. © Warja Lavater]

2. DORKAS. Everybody knows they sleep together, except Manuela. Come on.

3. Not my favorite tea set on the table. Why does Nieves keep choosing earthy colors? D:

This lovely post about PFLAG Damián telling Marta he's proud of her by @mrsdaphnefielding had me thinking about the other adult children struggling with their parents' expectations and fears this season.

In this episode alone, we get Mabel "¿pero ella es muy maja?" Salazar, whose mother (the same mother that defied her own parents to marry "down") is having an epic-tier class panic over the idea that her daughter might end up a waitress. By contrast, Nieves seems to have a lot of time for neurodivergence in both her children, so long as it comes with a good title. I predict this will be one of many complications in the Salazar marriage but in the meantime: is Nieves regretting her choices or refusing to see her daughter as a person with agency?

And Tasio, who wants to move mountains to be Damián's golden boy to the point of neglecting his wife risking his job (and also his marriage like the absolute fuckboy dummy he has always been). So notable that Damián, struggling with his own hurt masculine breadwinner pride, has time to be proud of the whole person that is Marta and to troubleshoot safety issues with her, but who would do well to tell Tasio: stick with your day job for a while, let me get this off the ground and leave it as your legacy later.

And then we have the episode ending with Salva "Eres único piropeando una mujer tú" Lucano/Luciano, reading letters from a father who has rejected him for something (to do with blood on the floor? To do with joining or leaving the navy? To do with his tendency of having platonic friendships with women)? Mabel, you're in safe hands with that man he's not flirting with you. Claudia, pobrecita, find a straight man gay woman? to get hung up on.