Diablero S2E1
Brush on Up Season One if you want! You might be confused otherwise.
Episode 1 "Searching for Ventura"
A hefty amount of time has passed since the end of the season 1. Father Ramiro is still lost AF. So, yeah.
Keta, Nancy and a long haired Elvis are walking into this building under a guise of professionals on one of their demon hunts. Nancy and Elvis doing a little bit of bickering along the way like siblings do (but they're not, obviously).
They reach the door and Elvis knocks only to be greeted by this masked man who looks like a wrestler. Holy fuck, no need to hide their identities because this dude, whom is Tinieblas and someone famous as Elvis is a tad starstruck, he readily explains and acknowledges he's a diablero. He explains to the group about Aluxe, a fellow wrestler, that doesn't seem to be acting like himself lately. Guess what? They need this help.
Elvis is fanboying all over the place. OMG this is so funny. Definitely watch this show IRL because it is so much more entertaining on the screen than me writing these words.
Nancy and Keta stay behind for some reason because Elvis says this is pretty personal. Excuses, excuses MAN.
Elvis enters the locker room where Aluxe is currently haunting the place. He tries to introduce himself but the yet to be seen possessed dude is just snarling and dragging a body behind lockers. Elvis takes his binoculars and he sees a weird white dwarf creature run across his vision. So he just takes the plunge and goes for it. The creature just jumps on his back and he starts freaking the fuck out running back and forth with this demonic marshmallow on his back while the 3 bystanders are unphased.
Meanwhile Tinieblas is asking the girls why TF are they not helping because they have a match hella soon. So they are like begrudgingly yet ever so slowly slumping over to help. Acting as if their mother told them to clean their room or else no dessert. I just love Keta and Nancy's reactions.
Short time skip now where the girls are outside waiting for him. He walks out with good news and bad news. Bad news first? Aluxe did get roughed out badly that they say he cannot fight for about 2 weeks therefore, didn't pay them the full fee. Good news? FREE LUCHA LIBRE TICKETS!!!!! (that's mexican wrestling for you uncultured swines)
While he is telling them the news with glee he is unaware that they don't share the same sentiment. So when he's done talking, they break the news to him.
THEY QUIT.
He whips out a saving grace card. He shows them that he made them buisiness cards that includes all of them instead of ad of just him. See? It even has a plural "DIABLEROS" as he happily shows them. Hey, that's not all, this little marketing genius even has specific catch lines for them.
Nancy? "The demons go inside her, NOT YOU." dedz
Keta? "Put the demon in our hands."
BOOM!
Once again, both are unphased. Nancy expresses interest in wanting the traditional 9-5 job with a steady paycheck and Keta probably the same time. Unfortunatley, he cannot persuade them and gives back the cards. He looks like a sad puppy when he realizes they are for real and not for fake. Well, shucks. Both give him the farewell hugs and depart. Not even getting a ride from him.
Meanwhile in another part of town in a dark alley is this one yet to be named young woman lookin' a little like a Goth Grimes She's just walking down and gets spooked by another woman but it's her friend who was just goofin'. Goth Grimes ain't here to goof! She says to her friend that Lupe will fire them if she finds out what they are doing. So, what are they doing? Stealing vials I guess. The friend has a vial on hand and is ready to dab her tongue with this mysterious drug.
That is, until they hear a distant chortling. Goth Grimes goes to follow the noise but it is instead Jimena (goof girl) that ultimately tries to go inside this dark hole where the sound is coming from. She emerges thinking she got punked but holy fuck she abruptly got sucked in the hole by the creature. A snarling creature.
Yowzas.
It is now a whole new day and it's just Elvis doing one of his jobs and walks up to a woman who looks like she is staring into the void. He starts to chat in some kind of ancient language. Throughout his incantation, one of her eyes swings to the side and has a metal clanking sound. Befuddled, he continues anyway. Badda bing badda boop, it turns out to be some kind of entrance mechanism..not a freaking exorcism. LOL! They got me in the first half, not gonna lie. The section the woman is on slides to the right which reveals an entrance that he happily steps through.
2 pedestrians on the street caught the tail end of this unorthodox entrance and stare menacingly.
Yowza, it is some kind underground exclusive club. Looks kinda cool. Doesn't take long for Elvis to make greet Paulina and eventually Thalia. I guess this is now a family run restraurant/bar/club??
El Indio is next seen having a diablero equivalent to arm wrestling. By that, I mean using their powers to shift a beer bottle in a sort of telekinetic tug-of-war. Cool shit, eh? When the bottle topples over on the loser's side, the demon got released to possess the poor fella. El Indio walks away with cash in hand in triumph over yet another win.
Elvis then greets him but for the first time (to my knowledge, anyway) he finally says hello to him as his real name, Isaac. He goes to him asking why the heck he is dabbling in this fuckery. Isaac replies back that the demon fights he curates get leaked online anyway so the money maker is not what it's used to be but whatevahhh. #LoveMyJob. This silly goose actually said that last part out loud. Oh, Indio, never change.
Very interesting to see everybody's change in tone. First Keta and Nancy call it quits to be in the exorcism biz and now Isaac. OF ALL PEOPLE Isaac is saying the buisness of diableros is on its way out saying people don't want their help anymore.
Accompanied by the obligatory Wilhelm scream that usually in American movies. Odd to see it in a Netflix tv show but yeah...I'm so over that motherfucking scream. There's more too like the kids laughing, or woman gasping. I'm sure there's more.
I'm getting side tracked here but Elvis offers for them to team up again for old times sakes. Isaac honestly looks a bit tipsy. Nonetheless his unfiltered opinion is a straight up NO. I guess he isn't made for the streets. He finds himself pretty content with his new business venture and wants to keep it that way.
He even tells Elvis to get himself a girlfriend. Speaking of, he has this segue into asking about Keta because he isn't returning his calls. Elvis snarks back she hasn't returned his, either and calls her a bitch. Playfully. Isaac defends her honor by backhanding him lol He's still in loooooove with Keta.
Conversation and everything else gets interrupted when the 2 pedestrians from outside are now suddenly inside this bar whatever and demands help from a diablero.
RECORD SCRATCH!
Everyone in the entire establishment stops and stares at this 2 women who totally stick out like a sore thumb. One of them looks like a punk rock Bella Thorne and the other looks like Scary Spice if Mel B she were a metal head.
Isaac is being a sarcastic asshole or in other words, he is himself. Punk rock Bella Thorn means business so she smacks a beer bottle to the nearest dude's head and lunges at Isaac with it saying she is a DIABLERA herself and threatened to stick a demon up his ass.
I LOVE HER NOW.
Specifically, she is looking for none other than Elvis Infante. Luck is on her side because he is literally inches away from her. He deescalates the situation and everyone else resumes to minding their own business and music is being jazzed back up. Elvis makes the grand opportunity to even whip out his business card for her. Unamused, she ain't here for chit chat. She says her boss wants to meet up with him.
She doesn't look like she was asking either.
I swear to jeebus, I am writing this recap as I am watching this episode for the first time and by pure coincedince as Elvis is leaving, Isaac says he be drooling over the Spice Girls as he follows them out. LOL!!!
For some unknown reason his vision is slightly concealed as to likely not reveal their location. They all arrive at a club or bar similar to Indio's. Elvis is like a little kid asking 20 questions but he does, however, get an answer to the name of this boss that wants to see him.
Lupe Reina.
Oh snap. He is finally unveiled and he free eyes to roam. Metal Scary Spice doesn't care to chat with him and blatantly ignores him when Punk Rock Bella Thorne tells him to wait here while she walks up the stairs. This club that he observes has a totally different atmosphere. Different vibe, indeed. Slow indie music is playing and there's It's obviously very woman dominated. Instead of is being a strip club like one would naturally think, it's a bunch of alternative piercing wearing women giving these drug drops to men of various backgrounds.
All of a sudden the music stops.
A woman on the speaker is saying welcome to her home. Elvis looks to his side and sees HER slowly walk down the stairs. Her speech is filed with ominous and dread and she is saying there is a sinner who broke a major rule amongst the crowd and will totes be exposed. This lady is the aforementioned Lupe Reina and she is silently walking around the room vibe checking every man on the ground floor.
She reaches one man in which Lupe Reina finally speaks that this man likes to play dirty without asking for permission. She alleges that this man forced himself on one of her girls and smacks him to the middle of the room with a spotlight on him. He is tied to the floor in front of a symbol while she is still talking how he is such a pig!
AND THEN SHE STABS HIM!!!!!!!!
It was very abrupt. Elvis intinctively lunges forward but the 2 henchwomen behind him hold him back as she continues to repeatedly laugh as she contnues to stab the fuck out of this dude.
But what wut?!
At the snap of a find, the dude is actually leaves unscathed and not filled with gore. He gets dragged away though.
Elvis looks in disgust as the music resumes. As he follows Punk Rock Bella Thorne, she explains to him that what he and everyone else saw was due to an illusion spell. He follows her up the stairs. He looks in one of the rooms and sees 2 men making out but in the mirror reflection were 2 demons or monsters?? A woman ninjas in front of him and closes the door.
The more that gets revealed to him the more of a freaky sex dungeon it looks like. El Indio could never. Needless to say, Elvis gets escorted to a room alone to wait.
and wait.
Until he looks right in front of him to see a half naked Lupe undress and he notices scars on her back. She has a witchy diablera tricks and shifts back in clothes and sitting at her desk. After a comment on her youthful complexion, as expected, Lupe says she is much older than he realizes.
Lupe lays it all out that she knows all about him. Averting the end of the world and all while also making it known that his group has since disbanded. Even papa Benito is dead I think??? That sucks. She gets to the nitty gritty that due to some recent events, one of her girls, Rosita (Goth Grimes) got attacked and had an eye plucked out. The only words that have come out of her mouth was:
Upon getting closer to Rosita reciting these same words over and over again. The second that he gently laid a hand on her shoulder, she snaps her arm to him and holy fuck it is now Ventura's voice pleading for help!!!!!! WTF is this fuckery!!!!? Ventura said he doesn't have much time and he needs Nancy and Keta to back because something terrible is about to happen. "They" want to close the door and they all must prevent it!
Before he can get any more information, the signal reverts and Rosita goes back to repeating "Help me, Elvis Infante."
Lupe demands his help and she will give him whatever he wants. What does he want exactly? Success and recognition.
Nancy is the first one he calls but to be honestly she just wants to live a normal life. Despite Elvis telling her exactly what happened, she gives fuck all about it and ended up hanging up on the fool. Well, the main reason is because Nancy is literally about to go on a date!!! How cute!
Meanwhile at Keta's she is at home, not giving a fuck about dating or even Isaac. She is seen chanting an incantation. Ooooh things are getting spicy! Looks like she is finally unleashing her diablera powers in an effort to find her missing son, Mayakan.
In her oven. HER. OVEN.
Then all of a sudden VENTURA APPEARS in her oven!! She sees his face like freaking Zordon from The Power Rangers. He gives slightly more information to Keta this time. Something about finding a white key. Of course, the signal vanishes just as quickly.
Back to the lovely date. Nancy I guess is not too well versed in dating so she's acting so endearingly goofy. He still likes her and even buys her a rose. And then all of a sudden Ventura starts appearing to her borrowing a face from a nearby waiter. Nancy silent freaks the fuck out while her date is still trying to make casual conversation totally not knowing what the fuck is going on.
Nancy is looking in horror seeing a demon smoke dashing to and fro around the restaurant due to be attracted to the cut on her hand by accident. She tries to cover her nose and mouth to prevent possession but well fuck, the demon enters through her other uncovered ear. The now possessed Nancy launches herself from the table and knocks her date to the ground. Luckily no one gets seriously hurt but she just as quickly runs away. The date, the good sport he is, still asks to call him. I hope we see more of this cat.
Elvis returns home. He's checking in on Mariana who looks to be a pre teen or teenaged at this point. She is sound asleep. Awwww.
After knowing she is all right, he checks up on Keta who is just staring into the void. Before she can even say what happened to her, the door rings. YAY it's Nancy. Too bad she doesn't share the same sentiment.
At the count of 3, who visited her!?
VENTURA! JINX! Can't talk!
Elvis is like: This is a sign he wants us to stick together!! Both just roll their eyes. They continue their conversation in the kitchen and Elvis is quick to say they should look for Ventura in the underworld. To get there, there are 9 levels to reach Mictlan.
I guess this is the new plot point now, huh?
They realize they first need to get through to the 1st level. Keta isn't too keen on it because no one's ever been even past that. This only motivates him even more because if they succeed, they'll be the first! Heh, gotta love his optimism there.
All three sit on the floor with in symbol drawn and getting ready for the incatation or seance or whatever. And commences.
The further along he is in the incantation, the more wild doors be flappening. Durng whih, everyone is seeing apparitions of various ages pranching around his home. It's starting to wig Nancy out and right when he was about to lean oven to one of the appartition, Elvis was forced to stop his incantation and tell her to stop.
Right when he stopped the incantation, all the ghosts, and paranomal activity abruptly stopped so now it is eerily quiet.
Questioning if he even did it right, they do hear some banging in the background. They trace these steps into none other than the washer machine where there is a blue portal. Holy fuck he did it. That bastard did it!
A quick change in scene is where this little kid wakes up in the middle of the night in this big church or castle like home. He looks teenaged. He walks down because he's hearing some growling creature. Only to be met with non contempt. Yeah, you read right, he gingerly pets the demonic creature thing. what significance for this have, you may ask? Because due to the mark on the back of his neck, HE IS MAYAKEN!!!!! What a cliffhanger, bros!
