#frustrated by this write up we will revisit tomorrow ✍🏼

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this is a super quick post before I go to bed so I don’t have the benefit of my laptop but one reason I want the armando jealous compilation is because his jealousy is really important to the plot and showing us his headspace as the scheme goes by

Like I could spend 40 days and 40 nights analyzing eps 50-60 and 71-90 or something like that because the times that Armando brings up Nicolas he has the plausible deniability of talking about la empresa. when he first finds out about Nicolas, he himself says that he has no reason not to trust betty and how he knows her very well and still he’s discomfited by their relationship. it doesn’t sit well with him. Equally telling is that it’s Mario that pushes him by giving planting doubts and goading Armando’s distrust .. where Armando was the first to bring it up, Mario is the one to constantly remind him of it

later, after betty is purposefully trying to trigger his insecurity over the company, they play more with this conceit of jealousy. we the audience have it well established that he’s pursuing betty for the company but now we see that challenged? key is of course the nightmare he has about them in the car, the way he follows them home and hates to see them kiss, the way he’s unconcerned about betty confronting Nicolas over possibly misspending terramodas money.. he’s more concerned over the location of a possible kiss between them than looking at terramoda’s balance! Armando’s incapacity to self reflect or accept his feelings is front and center as our antagonist here, causing him and betty a lot of pain

he only really makes one big scene of jealousy, when he smacks Nicolas outside of ines’ house whereas I was expecting more suffering hehehe mark.gif.. but Armando’s jealousy is a subtle thing that he acts on very strategically 🤔 or at least that the narrative employs strategically. of course he’s jealous of Michel, for instance, but other than a cold reception, he’s never aggressive or combative toward the man.