'The House of Flowers' Season 3: Flashbacks into Virginia's past make us wish we had a spin-off just for them
Spoiler alert for 'The House of Flowers' Season 3
When 'The House of Flowers' returned for Season 3, it was for its last. While we loved the first season of the show, the second season certainly made viewers feel the absence of Virginia de la Mora, who died offscreen after Season 1 ended.
Thankfully, Virginia's story resurfaces in the third season, only this time, it's in the past and it helps us understand why and how Virginia became the conservative matriarch that she was in the first season.
Virginia, as it would come to her children's shock, was a rebel. She loved to sneak out and party and she certainly liked getting up to things that she wasn't supposed to. Remember, this is the late 60s and things were much stricter back then.
The people Virginia hung out with included Patricio "Pato" Aguirre, Ernesto de la Mora, Salomon Cohen, and Carmela "Carmelita" Villalobos. Through the flashbacks, we see more of Virginia's relationship with Salomon, whom we learned in a previous season was actually Virginia's eldest daughter, Paulina's father. But, their relationship was forbidden because Salomon's Jewish family would not let him be with Virginia.
When Virginia first tries to sleep with Salomon and he gets nervous, she satisfies her needs by sleeping with Pato instead. Pato also had unsatisfied desires, he was in love with Agustin Corcuera, whom viewers might understand from the last name as the father of El Chiquis and La Chiquis, the de la Mora family's rivals.
We are also shown the sad way Pato's story unfolds. After coming out, Pato was abandoned by his family and Agustin is the only one he has for now. When Pato tries to get Agustin to come out in public, the latter instead ridicules him and even beats him to death, before Virginia even has a chance to tell him that she is pregnant with his baby.
We also learn that Pato is Paulina's real father, and not Salomon as we previously thought. Virginia doesn't want Salomon to regret leaving his family for her and she goes to Ernesto, whose family is now broke after his father ran off with everything. To help each other, they decide to get married.
The story told in the flashbacks in 'The House of Flowers' is very different from the story of the de la Mora siblings we see in the present. Sure, there are family struggles in both, but the story in the flashbacks has much more heart. With Virginia's past told, 'The House of Flowers' manages to go out with a blast. In fact, we even hope the show's creator, Manolo Caro would consider giving the viewers a whole spinoff based on Virginia's past.
All episodes of 'The House of Flowers' are now streaming on Netflix.