The original post: /r/television by /u/Neo2199 on 2025-12-26 18:53:19+00:00.
THR:
He has a code of honor that rivals Mike Ehrmantraut from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. He even leaves cash and IOUs rather than steal anything. Knowing that he’s not too fond of his mother, how do you think his background informs this conviction?
Vesga:
I haven’t been told what exactly happened between him and his mother, but I get the feeling that he probably wasn’t that joyful before the Joining. I don’t think that this is a guy who turned from being all smiley and happy and in love with life to this ever-frowning, very serious, sober-looking guy. I don’t think he had a lot of friends. I don’t think he was a very popular individual.
Also, he’s a migrant who migrated from Colombia to Paraguay, and now he has to migrate again. So migrating from one place to another inevitably involves loss, pain, anguish and trauma, and this guy has been through that. He has left his world behind once, and that informs a lot about how he takes the Joining. He’s saying, “Not again. Hell no. Not again.”
I’m dying to know more about that relationship with his mom because it probably [explains] his temperament. It affects you when you think that way of your mother. It has to affect you when you say, “You know what? I can tell you’re not my mother, not because you’re not sweet, but because you are.” To know she’s not his mom because she’s too sweet was such an amazing choice from the writers and the creators.
Manousos Oviedo was really great in that final episode, hopefully, he will be added as one of the main characters in season 2.