Decisiones: Unos ganan, otros pierden spoilers reveal there’s a high price to looking good. On Wednesday, January 7th, the anthology series dealt with Body Dysmorphia. It also once more took a look at what social media can do to a person if they let it. Let’s take a look at how things turned out.
Decisiones: Unos ganan, otros pierden spoilers—Famous online
The episode looks at these issues through the story of Vanessa. She’s a mother to a teenage boy who spends her time making videos for her social media. Most of these feature the products or plans of a plastic surgeon.
It seems, at first glance, a harmless thing. Lots of people have made a career out of promoting products online, blogging, etc. Decisiones: Unos ganan, otros pierden spoilers reveal the one big downside to what she does is the effect her online fame has on her son, Tomas, and her husband, David. The other students make fun of her videos, while David’s co-workers, his boss in particular, have a thing for her. As far as Vanessa’s concerned, she likes that people are watching her videos and is desperate to make this a big-time career at any price.
Decisiones: Unos ganan, otros pierden spoilers—Enough
Things come to a head when the doctor she’s working with wants her to enter a contest. He and his co-worker think she’s a shoe-in for the prize. She just needs another procedure first.
Obviously, this doesn’t go over well. Decisiones: Unos ganan, otros pierden spoilers indicate this isn’t the first time she went under the knife. We’re totally on David’s side when he vetoes the idea. They’re already still paying off the previous stuff she had done. Furthermore, he’s tired of this whole quest for online fame. He wants her to stop making the videos. Again, we’re on his side. If she were just making videos and some people were reacting bad, that’s on them. But she’s trying to put her family in debt to achieve perfection. It’s a dangerous game. And she loses big.
Decisiones: Unos ganan, otros pierden spoilers—The last straw
After swearing she was done with videos and surgery, she cleans out their special account at the bank, even taking a big penalty for early withdraw. She hides doing this from him, as well as pawn an anniversary present to achieve her dream. It ends up turning into a nightmare when the procedure goes wrong. She’s left with a face that’s not so social-media friendly. Plus, her husband leaves her after discovering what she’d done. The worst part is, she had a chance to avoid that.
Decisiones: Unos ganan, otros pierden spoilers—Choices and consequences
The whole issue messed with Tomas so much, he was drinking. He ended up getting into an accident, and Vanessa wasn’t there for her son. Her desperation to be perfect and online famous won out when her husband called both her and her friend over and over to tell about the accident. She chose not to return the calls and go into surgery instead. We’re looking at that doctor side-eyed for pressuring her the way he did. To her credit, she learns something from the experience. She gets the help she clearly needed and makes one last video. In it, she warns her followers of what can happen when you don’t accept yourself, flaws and all. It’s a great message to get across.
