Sky Rojo 2: Story Recap and Ending Explained Is Season 3 Coming?

The first time we talked about Sky Rojo, we titled with a foreboding “it’s Netflix’s Kill Bill. ” Who was going to tell us that the second season was going to end with the clearest reference to Tarantino’s masterpiece. To that set that we all have engraved in our retina – of course – when The Bride takes one eye out of Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah). Phew. The creeps.

The best thing about this tribute that Sky Rojo does in its final chapter is that it makes a lot of sense as a metaphor for the story it is telling. But we go little. First we remind you of everything that happened in Toxic People, the eighth and last episode, in case you have any loose ends. And then we go with our interpretation.

What Happened At The End of ‘Sky Rojo 2’?

We tell it on an adrenaline basis to keep up with the series. After playing cat and mouse in the first chapters, Coral (Verónica Sánchez), Wendy (Lali Espósito) and Gina (Yany Prado) –and Fermín, what a disgusting great uncle– plan to rob Romeo ( Asier Etxeandia ) and flee the Canary Islands. In parallel, Moisés ( Miguel Ángel Silvestre ) and Christian (Enric Auquer) also want to steal that money to force Romeo to free his mother.

At the time of the robbery, the girls left Christian badly injured and kidnapped Moisés. Coral stays with him while Wendy and Gina go to get a car. When he goes to kill him, he breaks free and gouges out one eye with a hook. Now it is he who is going to kill her … But Wendy and Gina prevent it. They convince Coral to leave it all behind once and for all and leave. And they flee on a ferry with the stolen money (and a patch for Coral).

Before, we see that Romeo lets Christian bleed to death and before he shows him the corpse of his mother in a refrigerator. According to him, he killed her so that she would stop suffering. He takes Christian to the scene of the robbery and from there Romeo calls to make him believe that he died there. Once reunited, Romeo blames everything on Coral and Moisés, again attached to him, announces that they have lost a battle, but not the war.

What Did The End Of ‘Sky Rojo 2’ Want To Tell Us?

Until the middle of the second season, we had always believed that what Sky Rojo hid under its frenzied aesthetic and its tremendous label of ‘Latin pulp’, was a savage criticism of the exploitation of women and the macho filth that sustains the vital ethic of pimps and clients. And of course there is a lot of that. With greater or lesser success, because the accusations of making pornography of violence against women are constant and, in many cases, justified. However, the end of the second season turns towards a more general perspective, towards the problem that is behind that drama and also of almost all those that affect all human beings: toxic relationships.

Moises verbalizes it before gouging Coral’s eye: “You and I are the last step in a chain of shit.” She comes to say that she has become that aimless woman because of the toxic relationship she had with her husband, and that he dehumanized himself and was able to exploit hundreds of women, with murders included, because of the manipulation of Romeo. “I hate you almost as much as I hate myself, and that’s a lot,” she confirms. The ocular tearing would thus be the perfect image that describes the relationship between the two, a tearing of life little by little and mutually until death.

The best thing about the end is that the series covers the two exits that exist in this situation. On the one hand, there is that of Moisés: throughout the season he has made decisions that suggested that deep down he wanted to change his life and do things well to compensate for all the horror he has caused. However, the end of his arc points in the opposite direction: he was happier, he was more faithful to his true essence, when he did not apply morality to his behavior. And he decides to recover that path. Which entails killing Coral, something he doesn’t get because he’s prevented from doing so, not because he doesn’t want to.

In Coral’s case, take the other alternative. A phrase from Wendy is the trigger for that final change: “Coral, stop fucking yourself. To start a new life you have to do it in peace.” And so comes the final reflection of the protagonist: “Sometimes, getting out of a toxic relationship is impossible. Even if you know that it will cost you your life, the hook is so strong that you can’t do anything else. But that day, I did. I achieved”. That is why she is the heroine of this story. Moral: whoever manages to truly escape a toxic relationship, at all costs, is the winner.