A snowstorm threatens to ruin Elena's plans of spending a quiet and peaceful Navidad at home.
Tropes in this episode include:
- Christmas Episode: The second one after "Navidad".
- Continuity Nod:
- Gabe is still searching for Victor and Carla since the events of "Finding Zuzo".
- Esteban's parents having died in a storm at sea brings to mind what happened to Anna and Elsa's parents.
- In the riddles that Mateo, Naomi, and Esteban give to Elena, they reference the events of previous episodes.
- The Dog Bites Back: Or in this case, the jaquin. Finally fed up with Victor and Carla's abuse and insults, Cruz and Vestia toss the Delgados off and ditch them.
- Even Bad Girls Love Their Mamas: When Carla recognizes her mother, the two immediately share a heartfelt embrace.
- Foreshadowing:
- Carla and her mother sharing a heartfelt embrace and only acknowledging each other while Victor stares in shock in the background foreshadows the family's relationship in the next arc.
- Esteban is treated as if he doesn't fit in with the rest of his family, such as being left out of group shots with them or being treated almost like an afterthought in Elena's song.
- While making amends with Elena for his behavior during the episode, Esteban says that he and the others "owe her much more than just an apology".
- Elena sings about how "the best gift is to be at home for Navidad with you", which not only refers to everyone getting temporarily separated on Noche Buena by the snowstorm, but also Esteban's inability to ever celebrate Navidad with his parents again as well as Carla having a surprise reunion with her mother. It also foreshadows some unfortunate events that will happen in Season 3.
- Hoist by Their Own Petard: The Delgados cast a snowstorm spell that is supposed to get Gabe and his men off their trail, but it does more damage to them than they had hoped, and then it's made worse from Mateo's blunder of not reading the instructions.
- Innocuously Important Episode: Initially seemingly being a mere holiday special, the episode contains important revelations and plot developments that transition the show from the main arc of Season 2 to the main arc of Season 3.
- Jaw Drop: Victor when his wife shows up at their house and Carla running to embrace her.
- Papa Wolf: Victor carries Carla in his arms to their house through a blizzard when she strains her leg and can no longer walk.
- The Reveal:
- Esteban's parents died in a storm at sea in the Northern Seas when he was just a child. And he had attempted to warn them about going out to sea because he had a bad feeling about it, but they didn't listen, which goes a long way at explaining why he desires power and acts like a strict authoritarian so much of the time.
- Carla's mother is a malvago, which seems to indicate that the reason Victor and Carla were so dead-set on becoming malvagos is so that they could join her in the dangerous lifestyle that separated her from them.
- Wham Line: From Carla: "Mami?"
