On My Block Cast Teases Season 3's Highest Stakes Ever

It’s been each year since the Freeridge crew was snatched off the sidewalk in their Los Angeles neighborhood and stuffed into a van with bags over their heads. Yet finally, the fates of Ruby, Jamal, Monse, and Cesar will be revealed once On My Block Season 3 hits Netflix on March 11.


“This season specifically is, like, nothing is off limits,” Jessica Marie Garcia, who plays Jasmine, tells MTV News. “We go on such a roller coaster, whether it's emotion, whether it's the situations that we're in.”


“It's the comedy of Season 1 with the heartbreak of Season 2 blended together,” Brett Gray (Jamal) adds.


In the lead-up to their kidnapping, the Core Four entangled themselves in the hunt for a concealed fortune — a.K.A. The RollerWorld cash — and inadvertently got caught up in local gang politics. They noticed the money, lost the money, and just any time as soon as you think they’re in the clear, were captured by a mysterious figure. In a teaser for Season 3, we visualize a cautiously sharpened and shined knife on a platter, willing to be served to the categorize, obediently seated side by side because the bags are whisked off their heads. They visualize their captor; we do not.


Luckily, we do get to be able to see their kidnapper at the new season’s open — a person with “great nails,” Garcia notes — right as well as that, a new assignment, with the highest possible stakes. “Our lives are on the line,” Diego Tinoco (Cesar) says. Thus, the Core Four officially becomes the Core More, with Ruby (Jason Genao) bringing Jasmine into the fold (her dream come true!) And Cesar’s brother Spooky (Julio Macias) supplying the needed insight to help wade the rocky waters.


certainly, there really are still personalized matters to address. On-again-off-again couple Cesar and Monse (Sierra Capri) are still… well, Cesar and Monse. “Always. They don't know what they hope to do,” Genao intones, while Tinoco defends the love/hate relationship that we all love/hate to watch. “It's your first love going by means of the bumps of a young teenage relationship and ultimately just attempting to be there for one another,” he says.


Meanwhile, Monse and Jasmine reach a new level in their friendship as soon as Monse finally receives the passion Jasmine’s habitually attempted to give, going from “this girl lives around here” (Garcia’s words) to “oh, OK, I can rock for her” (Capri’s words). And continuing the chain of ships, be prepared for Jasmine and Ruby to “explore new forms of their friendship,” Genao says. Let’s just mention things don’t hit a standstill right after Ruby leaned on Jasmine in the aftermath of his shooting.


That just leaves Jamal, who, per common, finds adventure just outdoor of the group’s bounds. “Jamal has a love interest this season,” Gray teases. His mystery girl enters early in the season, breaking new ground for the Core More’s most inquisitive member.


there really is, naturally, a lot going on outdoor of their interpersonal relationships, resulting in the exact sort of push-and-pull expected from an audience of teens navigating high school, friendships, dating, family member, and near-death experiences. Nothing’s ever static. “Today @we could be good and we may be on and I love you more than anything — and then tomorrow I hate your guts and it's with such a passion,” Garcia says.


True to form, On My Block peppers its most emotional moments with a signature zaniness, that both lightens the mood and permits the series to preserve its fully bingeable status. Nevertheless even while in these ridiculously heightened moments, it never loses sight of the stakes — and things are going to get intense this season.


The teenage years are a period of growth, and Season 3 is the manifestation of such growing pains. As viewers prepare to settle in for the new season, Genao has some simple advice: “Remember who they were, yet don't expect them to be that anymore.” And in case you pay close attention, Tinoco adds, you’ll begin to recognize the people that they’re on the way to becoming, for better or for worse.