‘Acapulco’ Recap: ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’

Written by John Edward Betancourt

Enrique Arrizon and Damián Alcázar as Maximo and Don Pablo in Episode 104 of ‘Acapulco’ – ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’. (Photo Courtesy of Apple.)

One particular problem with modern society, is that it tries very hard… to streamline emotions and beliefs. Out of the misguided sense that somehow the world will be happier if everyone holds to the same ideas and goes along with them. But we’ve come to learn, that’s just terrible thinking, and brings nothing but misery since it means that those who want something different out of life or want to feel something outside of the norm, suffer, and that’s not right. For feelings and beliefs are subject to the individual, and are the business of no one else, and as long as someone isn’t causing great harm to others via their feelings or beliefs… they should indeed be allowed to feel those feels and hold to what gives them life. 
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Slowly but surely, that understanding is becoming the norm, but it has taken centuries for human beings to get there and often times… it’s taken little moments of learning to elicit change. Since that one lesson is imparted upon another and that does indeed take time, and well, this is top of mind today, simply because Maximo experienced that kind of learning in the next episode of Acapulco on Apple TV+. For ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ brought the ultra-popular and long-standing Latin sex symbol, Rodolfo, to Las Colinas and well, that allowed for Maximo to learn the truth about love. About how love is love, and how respect is a key element of it and well, he learned all of that, by way of several surprises when it came to Rodolfo.

For this popular singer also had quite the sexual reputation. In that, he was able to bring women to his bed often with a warm smile, and his sex appeal was so great in such matters that even Maximo’s mother had a crush on the man, and well… that ended up making Maximo quite nervous. Because a little spat between Julia and Chad, opened a window of opportunity for Maximo to woo her at last. So, he set up a date and prepared to turn on the charm to hopefully woo her at last. But alas, on the day of their date, she was hanging out with Rodolfo and succumbing to his charm and that wounded Maximo, and salt was poured within said wound, when he was assigned to Rodolfo’s villa to keep people out. Since paparazzi were everywhere.

All because Julia spent time within the villa and truly, Maximo thought this was it, that Julia was going to be seduced by the world’s hottest pop star. Which prompted a rescue mission in Maximo’s mind, that sadly… required him to leave his post and that… brought about the lesson in question. For a photographer got in there and got evidence that the only person that Rodolfo wanted to seduce, was his manager/husband. A truth that would have ruined him in 1984 because of those stupid views on love that we harbored at the time. But Don Pablo’s care in keeping this secret, and the fury that Julia sent his way when he revealed that he was trying to save her from being sexually conquered, as though she didn’t have a brain in her body… helped Maximo understand a great deal about love.

Such as how, it really is subjective to the heart, and that women don’t need chivalry and protection in such matters, because not every woman has sex and romance on their mind and make their own choices in life. Plus, we also learned that it is pure for those who find it and forgiving. As evidenced by Nora and Ernesto’s first date, and that surprise revelation for Sara, romantically. And that is how we learn about love, by seeing it in the world and seeing how it works and lessons like the one that Maximo imparted upon his nephew, is how change comes forth and all of this made, for a lovely episode. One that really spoke to an important moment in all our lives, one that definitely helps us better understand the world, and how best to navigate its chaotic nature. Until next time.

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