 So if there was gonna be one problem in this season one problem with all these characters any of these characters one problem That could snag this period piece drama action. That is Zorro It's modernizing any of the characters That is a no-no and well Lolita is just that unfortunately in episode five it flares up It's ugly head really really in its it's it almost took me out And this is probably the weakest of the episodes I've seen yet, but episode six is a bounce back So I'm actually reviewing five and six together. It's the Zorro. It's we've been doing these episodic reviews and Even that being said right? even this glaring Just Modern take with this with this one character. Everything else is great great intrigue Great twists a lot of these characters are doing a lot of mischievous things a lot of mystery Which I'm all in for okay, so episode five is called the execution and refers to the three Indians that are gonna be executed by the governor Zorro doesn't want that makes a pact with the other Zorro. Hey, let's bust them out. We both want the same thing We both want peace Naline is more of like I want the you know, what's right for my people Don Diego wants peace for everyone. So great little pact great little Idea That keeps all these characters, you know going along in this series and they they are successful It is short-lived and they they do split. They do Go their separate ways There's a little more mystery being uncovered with Dundee goes father and he's part of this Bear clan and it is those hooded gentlemen that we've been seeing in and out of the of the of the series again Very cool Who are these hooded gentlemen? Who is the bear clan? and why Do these bear pendants? He's seeing them in Finally seeing the clues that Weren't shown before Okay Now I Was really into that. I'm really into all the characters kind of growing doing the thing from maybe, you know May not being the best cook That was funny To a lot of these other characters Moving the story along, but let's get to it Lolita My god, I want to say this Renata is such a beautiful person to look at he almost you're almost Forgive it, but now but the but but you can't in this one glaring scene so she She's kind of being this She they they kind of took a step back in the writing with her in that she's a brat again Contemplating do I marry Enrique? Enrique is a great character by the way. He's becoming one of my favorite characters If it you know besides Don Diego, I think I like Enrique the best What a what a great take on this captain? And it makes sense because they're two both good men and that's what she's having a hard time with and And there's a moment at a dinner where she is you know, she's just kind of like daydreaming and The the father a confronts her later on and he's pissed He's super for he's super pissed ain't you can't be rude like that You got to stop this stuff and she's she's spout enough. She's mouth enough and he slaps her says you better behave Right, so what does she do? Right away she goes and grabs a gun off the wall a rifle off the wall shoots at him Purposely misses him and says if I love you you're my father and I love you, but if you ever hit me again, I will kill you what What This father has been so great to her is giving her everything who's done everything for her, right? They have this which you know, he's trying to knock sense of her sex sense into her and She threatens his life. She she takes an it takes a shot at him. This is the 1830s. I Mean she would have been done. That just doesn't happen Yeah, I I'm just I'm just confused as to why I'm not confused because it's one of the writers trying to insert anything modern any any modern take on Kind of like just abusive parental, you know Patriarchy from the past and it's like that's how it was So if you're gonna show it then you got to show what would happen What would the consequences be or don't show that that was awful? He didn't need that scene at all. So it totally took me out It took me a few scenes to get back into it in what was a really enjoyable Season so far and Okay That's the biggest glare, okay It didn't it didn't ruin the rest of the the the episode and like I said the bounce back with episode six Was sufficient it is called what what's this the mass games mass games? So What's going on is that we're we're heading to this moment where? the Don Ramirez's Lands and mines are up for sale up for auction the Russians want it outside interests want it some of the other Californians want it But Don Diego wants to get it and he wants to work with the Chinese miners So there's a whole thing with the with the men from Chinatown and helping him Make this successful that was cool. There's a you know In these two episodes what you saw were a lot of the establishing minor roles doing a lot of business Then you have Don Diego being taken and he in it in its not by force He he he he he agrees to be taken by the bear clan and he finally has a meeting with the bear clan And they're Carly for Niels who want to be liberated from Mexico and one basically they want their own bear republic the California Republic So that was kind of interesting and it was interesting as to like this father was a part of he's like if my father was a part of it I'm a part of it. So that was cool He realizes that Lolita's father was part of the clan as well He kind of figured that out right away. What I'm seeing in the in these two episodes is Don Diego Really It was it was actually a very little Zorro of Don Diego There's actually very little Zorro in these last two episodes but that's okay because Don Diego has a lot to unpack and The big thing is that mystery with his father And then all the relationships he has that he's trying to work with from Lolita to the governor and I will say this so I really liked all that Another positive is the role of Enrique the the captain. What an incredible character We find out he's an orphan and he's such a good man and you can see that Lolita does love him or is enamored with him or specs him. There is a scene where He he gets wounded and she's there and And you know, he saves her life and if he she she loves she loves him for that And so they had they had a really good moment there Towards the end of the scene towards the end of the second episode of Mask games. I was a little thrown off that There was an attack by Naline on Enrique as they're leaving a Lolita's family's house compound To where She's she's wounded. Oh, she's not mortally wounded. Naline's wounded by Lolita. Like, okay Where did she come up with her? She got that rifle real fast. I was like If he gets worse if it gets more more more like an obvious thorn and it's taken away from Zoro's story I'm not into it. I really don't care about these storylines with with Lolita nah Naline I Bought I like the Indian connection. I like the indigenous connection and that's it So this could be really problematic going into the final episodes. I will let you guys know that being said Episode five was decent and Mask games was really good. It was really good. So I would say episode five is my lowest I'd give it a I'd give it a a seven and Mask games that would it did pick up. So we're looking at a 7.5 definitely not the eight and eight point fives of the of the first four, but listen There's gonna be there's gonna be a lol. I was unfortunate, but you know There's always one modern writer, I guess in that writer's room that's that really and it really showed and you can't you can't you can't have it Both ways if you're gonna show that and you got to show it all the way like what would have happened in the 1830s If you struck your father in his house In his house if you threatened his life if you threatened to kill him It was just so out of just out of it. Just you know that I Was I was a little baffled. There's other relationships going on between That father and they're in the Russian woman It's established that they had been sleeping around. So I don't know if Lolita Thinks of her father in that light. I don't even think it's established that she knew that she knows about this Which as far as she knows is that he's been a he's been a great dad to her And he saved her life one time early in the in the season. So yeah, bug me. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna lie other than that I love all the intrigue and the mystery that's going on and I'm ready for the final few episodes If you want some more info on Zorro you're gonna check out our watch party right now We're gonna do a watch party of the finale if you want to skip to our finale That's gonna be up soon right there It is a finale watch party with midnight said just spaniel and Latino slant wherever you're at keep that slam Fuerte