Headscratchers / One Day at a Time (2017)

• Elena is shown throughout the show to be engrossed with social justice, which begs the question as to how, before "The Turn", she's never heard of the term "white-passing", and how it prevents her from experiencing the discrimination that her family does.
  • She did know the term, and even was the one who described herself as passing when the others pointed out their contrasting looks.
• Why was Elena so fixated on getting her cousin Pilar to come out as a lesbian? Elena knows from personal experience that sometimes, there are people who don’t accept someone who comes out, especially in one’s own family.
  • Both Elena and Pilar touch on this in the episode. Elena herself is fairly recently out and still kind of on a high from being open about herself and her sexuality, so she's built this utterly false image in her head of Pilar being miserable because she has to hide her true nature. As such she sees it as her duty to help Pilar, even though it turns out that her help is neither wanted nor needed (Pilar is already openly gay, it's just that her immediate family tends to forger/ignore this fact). This is fairly typical of Elena; if she sees a wrong she immediately tries to right it in the most direct (and obnoxious) way possible, and doesn't always consider the implications or consequences of her methods.