Cuestión de Sexo recap Episodes 3.01 and 3.02

By Contributing Writer on Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 17:29

By Ingrid Diaz

Cuestión de Sexo returned for its third season on Spain’s channel four and surprised everyone by introducing a lesbian storyline in its second episode.

The show centers around Diego, his wife Alba, their daughter Sofía and a few other members of the family (Alba’s sisters, Diego’s brother…) but the one we care about is Sofía.

In the first episode of the season, Sofía returns to Spain after spending some time gallivanting through Europe. She stops in at her parents’ home long enough to drop the I-bomb: Independence! She’s eighteen and she’s over the whole living-with-the-parents thing. She’s setting out on her own. No, no, they don’t need to worry about a thing. She’s got the whole thing covered. She’s in and out and leaves her parents in a state of befuddlement.

Sofía’s ally in the road to independence is Gonzalo. Gonzalo is a shy, bumbling, socially-awkward guy who’s madly in love with Sofía and will do pretty much anything for her, and she seems pretty okay with letting him follow her around like a puppy.

Sofía’s big Independence Plan is to (secretly and temporarily) move into an empty apartment belonging to a woman named Sandra (who happens to be Diego’s ex, and who also happens to be played by Sandra Collantes, whom some of you might recognize from the awesome lesbian webseries Chica Busca Chica). Sandra also owns the bar that most of the characters hang out at.

Throughout the episode, Sofía keeps ignoring mysterious phone calls and acting strange. After one particular call, she gets visibly anxious and asks Gonzalo to stay with her (in the don’t-leave-me-alone-with-the-ringing-phone way, not in the want-to-rip-off-your-not-so-sexy-pink-sweater way). Gonzalo starts to shake with nerves at the mere suggestion. But of course he stays.

The next day, a woman named Nines stops by Sofía’s secret lair claiming to be Gonzalo’s fiancée and accusing Sofía of sleeping with her future husband. Sofía’s merely confused and then shocked as the lady slaps her. She didn’t even know Gonzalo was engaged.

At Sandra’s bar, Sofía talks to Gonzalo about his fiancée’s vist and he admits (in a rambling, nervous way) that he got engaged while Sofía was away because he was depressed about her being gone. And she asks him if he was really in such poor shape without her, and this leads him to accidentally admit that he’s in love with her. Sofía tells him not to do this, and looks frustrated and slightly annoyed by the confession. She tells him he’s like all the other guys, because he’s just using Nines as a backup. She starts to turn away from him, but he tells her that she needs him, because she can’t stay in Sandra’s apartment forever.

At this point, Sandra walks by and overhears this. And Sofía admits that she’s been staying in the apartment but that she’ll move out immediately. Sandra says she’s got a better idea.