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    "Quien a su hijo consiente..." 
  • When we first see Laura spoiling Sam by buying him loads of balloons, Carlos mentions that their rooftop looks like a "toy cellar" because of all the toys Sam has but never uses, but when we get to see their house from a panoramic point of view, there are no toys in the rooftop. Did they vanish?
  • Why does Sam take money from whose mother if he ultimately didn't spend it on anything? He took it and gave it back once he returned to his house.
  • If Sam was no longer going to school since two months ago, why didn't the school report to his father that Sam was no longer going so Carlos would not waste his money?
  • When Sam tries to rape Yasmin, why does he try to force himself upon her at the entrance of the building where she lives? Sam could have gotten into bigger trouble if Yasmin's parents ended up discovering him...
    "Ya la esperanza perdida, ¿qué queda de perder en esta vida?" 
  • Why does Esteban assure his wife Irena that their daughter Rocío isn't going to die if Rocío, well, slit her wrists? The doctors manage to save her, but if they hadn't done so, Rocío would have died. Doesn't her father know that slitting one's wrists means a slow death?
    "Por la muestra se conoce el paño" 
  • Why doesn't Camila and Alexa's grandmother like Verónica as her son's wife at first? She looks like a good woman, is faithful to her marriage and doesn't seem to have any bad qualities.
  • The next day, after her grandmother tells her that she has already accepted Alexa's invitation, why does Camila tell her friend that her grandmother is coming to accompany her and Alexa, when her grandmother only told her that she would go with Alexa last night?
    "El león no es como lo pintan" 
  • Why do Gael and Mateo bully Fabián at first? Gael implies that they bullied Haydeé because she has two moms, but it's never stated why they bullied Fabián.
  • If Rosalía didn't want Gael to discover what happened to his brother, then why didn't she shut out his aunt from his life? Gael mentions that his aunt was the one who kept speaking with his "brother".
  • When Gael and Mateo go to look for Gael's brother Aldo at the nightclub where Gael's aunt says he works, only to find out that Aldo's transgender and her name is now Tara, why doesn't Tara's boss tell him immediately that Tara had come out instead of taking him to see a woman he didn't know and tell him that she was his brother? It does really seem at the beginning that Tara's boss is playing a joke on Gael and it was possibly not the best way to reintroduce Tara into Gael's life.
  • Why did Gael stop to have birthday cakes after his father died? Rosalía forgot his birthdays or what?
Why exactly does Tara die? While struggling to get into Gael's room, she was just pushed by Joaquín against a column but then she just falls.
    "Que importa el color del gato sino que case ratones" 
  • Is Álvaro gay or straight? He says that he likes women, has a relationship with Irene and doesn't show any interest in men, but the show's YouTube channel states that he is hiding his homosexuality...
    "El mal entra a brazadas y sale a pulgaradas" 
  • When Luis gets in trouble for calling out a rude lady at the shop where he works for insulting him, Don Fausto comes and believes the lady's lies, firing Luis for yelling at her. Why doesn't Mariana, the employer who attended the lady, come to Luis' defense if she clearly witnessed the fight? Yeah, the customers who witnessed the scene possibly don't tell Don Fausto that Luis wasn't in the wrong there, but his co-worker?
  • After Luis talks with Don Fausto, who forgives and rehires him, why does Gabby reprimand Luis until Luis has a rampage and injures his sister? Upon entering into the apartment, she says that he caused a problem and that her employer nearly fired her, but Luis just went to Don Fausto and nothing happened.
  • Why does the teacher expel both Raúl and his friend if it's implied that the whole class aided them in putting all those drawings of Luis around the class? Two female students were the ones who told Raúl and the others about Luis' condition as they saw him at El Dicho, but Raúl and his friend could have done nothing and just laugh at the drawings the others made to provoke Luis into another rampage, assuming the duo didn't draw them...
    "Donde las dan las toman" 
  • When Arturo exposes his teacher Sandra's secret, that she worked as an exotic dancer in a gentlemen’s club, why does Sandra deduce that Arturo was the one behind her exposure? Yeah, she turns out to be right, but Arturo never entered into the club and it was Arturo's friend the one who took photos of her. Arturo did laugh at her, but he wasn't the only student who laughed. Sandra even gave him one of her glow sticks to Arturo's friend. Why doesn't she assume that it was that guy who exposed her?
  • How is Patricio able to enter into Arturo's house? Does Arturo's mother leave the door open or what? It doesn't sound like Patricio breaks into the house by force.
  • After humiliating Arturo, Patricio takes him to the club where he and Sandra work to force Arturo into apologizing to Sandra. How is it possible that from Arturo's house to the gentlemen's club, Arturo didn't try to run away from Patricio on the street and even accuse him of trying to attack him? Don't they meet a single adult the whole way to the club? Patricio threatened to break his neck if he called the cops, but he was unarmed and Arturo even could have easily escaped from him earlier the moment he turned around to check his computer. Even Sandra lampshades that Patricio could have gotten into trouble since Arturo is a minor.
    "Con amigos así quién necesita enemigos" 
  • Why don't Nuria and her friends get expelled after their video is uploaded to the Internet?
  • Why is Fabián released later on after Mauricio gets arrested and David surrenders himself to the police? He says that he could have gotten locked up for aiding David in filming Nuria in the dressing room, and that’s exactly what he made! Even if Fabián didn't want David to upload the video, he still helped David to hide the camera, so he was still an accomplice.
    "Favor con favor se paga" 
  • Why is Mauricio expelled once Eugenio reveals that he cheated on the exam, but not for trying to rape a drunken Isis at Eugenio's house? Shouldn't the school be aware of that by now? Eugenio's parents and Isis' mother would have surely reported by then what Mauricio tried to do.
    "A otra puerta que esta no abre" 
  • What exactly does Federico to Cristina when he and his friends attack her? The audience sees that he has left her with cuts on her face but when Cristina's mother tells Kike what happened, she says that they cut off something from Cristina's body but doesn't say what. It's implied that it was her penis that Federico cut off, but shouldn't Cristina's penis have been removed by then if she had already undergone gender reassignment surgery?
  • After Cristina is attacked by Federico and his friends, before she decides to report them to the police, her mother decides to move from the city and Kike gets mad about that, yet his mother insists that hey try to understand the situation. Given the fact that Kike's got a habit of Jerkass behaviour because of his transphobic father, if he really hated to leave his friends behind due to the attack on his sister, why doesn't his mother let him stay with his father instead? This all happens before Kike undergoes a Heel–Face Turn, so if he didn't want to change, why not let him go to live with the relative he misses so much?
    "El buen morir es el premio al buen vivir" 
  • When his brother Jaime is send to live out his final days at home, Gabo doesn't understand that he is dying. He only becomes aware of this once Jaime tells him the truth, as Gabo believed that Jaime had been cured and was recovering slowly. However, Gabo was told earlier by his grandmother that Jaime hadn't been cured and that Jaime had been sent back from the hospital as it would be better for him to be with his loved ones. Why does Gabo change his mind about Jaime's condition?
    "Vemos la paja en el ojo ajeno" 
  • Why does Ramón's father hate all black people and bullies Martín for being black when he is dark-skinned just like Martín? That seems a bit hypocritical from his part.
  • After Martín's mother fills a restraining order against Ramón's father, why doesn't she add too sexual harassment to the charges after he disrespected her on the streets by speaking to her life if she was a prostitute?
    "El cobarde y el ladrón van siempre con precaución" 
  • How is Daniel able to realize that Adrián was the one who told Ms. Salazar, their teacher, that they stole her exam to cheat? Adrián's phone only had evidence that Sergio was the one who flattened the tires of Salazar's car. By the way, seeing how Daniel unlocked Adrián's phone, doesn't Adrián's phone even have a password?
  • Once Daniel and Sergio admit to killing Salazar and are arrested, Adrián and Ms. Quiroz, the new teacher, tell Don Tomás and Marietta that the city prosecutor wants to prove that Daniel and Sergio didn't kill Salazar accidentally as they claim but on purpose. In addition, before Quiroz is hired to replace Salazar, Don Tomás and Marietta tell Adrián that the people who broke into Salazar's home did so to rob her and picked the lock. However, the flashback clearly shows us that Sergio did accidentally push Salazar down the stairs, they didn't steal anything and never picked the lock; Salazar herself opened to the door and they entered without her permission. Do are Don Tomás and Marietta lying to Adrián or the flashback is wrong?
    "Lo que se consigue en la niñez crece y agrada después" 
  • After going to therapy, Vicente apologizes for all the problems he caused, making amends with his parents, his adoptive mother and his adoptive sister, but as Don Tomás concludes the episode by reciting the saying "What is achieved in childhood grows and pleases later", Vicente does a Lying Finger Cross. So this means he didn't change his ways? Then what's the episode's point, if the sayings of El Dicho supposedly solve the main conflict every time? The fact that the episodes are stand-alone means Vicente isn't going to appear again.
    "El que no avisa no es traidor" 
  • When a customer of the club where Ariel works doesn't find his wallet, Axel suggests that Ariel may have stolen it, leading to a brawl where Ariel gets hurt and the customer doesn't find his wallet. Why does the customer assume what Axel says is true if Ariel just caressed the customer's neck? Her hand was never near his wallet.
    "Buena vida, padre y madre olvida" 
  • Sebastián, Fabián's stepfather, ends up missing his flight to the USA and loses his job because Fabián took his car without telling him and doesn't answer his phone calls. His daughter Aurora suggests that he explain to his boss what happened, but Sebastián says that he can't tell his boss that he can't take the flight because his stepson took his car. Wouldn't it have been much easier to invent an understandable excuse for missing the flight?
    "De amor que no conviene, muchos males y pocos bienes" 
  • After Bernardo tricks Oscar into sending him his pack by using Isabel's phone and it goes viral, Don Santiago says Óscar's photo mocks exercise and makes him look bad. How exactly does the pack mock exercise? If anything, Óscar is showing his muscles, which makes exercise look good. Considering that Óscar was wearing his boxers, does this really make Don Santiago look bad? The memes were not made by Óscar, but by other users, and this is inevitable with any kind of photos on the Internet.
  • Why does Mr. Trinidad still employ Óscar at his workshop after Óscar's pack goes viral? Everyone knew about it. Even Isabel assures Bernardo and Rogelio that she isn't going to put Óscar's photo on her dad's workshop. Shouldn't Mr. Trinidad have fired Óscar for that?
  • When Don Santiago changes his mind upon seeing Óscar's pack, he tells Óscar's mother that the scholarship meant for Óscar will now be given to another boy. At the end, however, once Isabel and Mr. Trinidad tell Don Santiago about how Óscar was tricked into sending his pack, Don Santiago somehow manages to convince his associates to return the scholarship to Óscar. Isn't this unfair to the boy who got it in the interim? Regardless of whether he was tricked or not, Óscar sent his pack of his own accord.
    "Al pesar por el bien ajeno, llaman envidia y es veneno" 
  • How is Félix able to unlock Mariana's tablet if he didn't know the password?
  • Félix is kicked out from his class's messaging group, but why does he get into it in the first place? He gets his cellphone after stealing Mariana's tablet, so it's a bit strange that he was added to the group if Mariana and Jorge didn't want him there.
    "Al que de ajeno se viste, en la calle lo desvisten" 
  • How do Paola and Federica know that it's going to rain the night Luz has her date with Paola's cousin René and Paola and Federica trick her into stealing the paper dress that Lore made for them? What if Luz had never gotten the dress wet? Their plan would not have worked.
  • After Luz's dress is ruined by the rain, Paola and Federica take a photo of Luz in her underwear and share it in the gym next day to humiliate her. How did they take the photo? When they followed Luz, they were behind her and in the photo Luz appears from the front...
  • Why does the security guard take so long to go down from the second floor to the first floor after calling a police call for Luz? When René asks her what she was doing, she responds that she was following them, but she arrived like three minutes later.
    "Hijo malo, más vale doliente que sano" 
  • After Saúl is arrested and taken to juvenile hall for murdering Luisito, his mother talks with the officer who arrested him and he tells her that Saúl was bullied at school, but says that they can't use the bullying Saúl endured at school to reduce his sentence. Why don't they arrest Saúl's main bully and his friends? They still threatened, abused and coerced Saúl, and these types of bullying are considered crimes.
    "A quien no ama a sus parientes, deben romperle los dientes" 
  • In the flashback about when Gabriel's father rejects him for not being straight, Gabriel tells him that he is gay. However, back in the present day, Gabriel says that he feels like a woman and wants to be called Gabriela, but her father, her former friend Gerardo and the priest who was to initially organize her Quinceañera mass either insult her by calling her "faggot" or call her "gay" and Gabriela doesn't correct them, only defending her sexual orientation so they will respect her. Don't the show's crew know that gay and transgender are two different things?
  • When Gabriela's father comes to El Dicho to yell at her for inviting him to her Quinceañera party, Don Tomás asks him to calm down and not insult Gabriela, but he refers to her as a "young man". If Gabriela feels like a woman, and as Don Tomás does refer to her as Gabby later on, isn't Don Tomás misgendering her?
  • The priest that Catalina, Gabriela's mother, has hired six months ago to organize Gabriela's Quinceañera mass, goes back on his word and says that he can't perform the mass because her "son" is an aberration and abnormal and he could get lynched or have his church burned if he performs the mass. If the priest was against doing a mass for a trans girl, then why did he accept to organize it in the first place?

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