50 Fun Facts About On My Block

On which streaming service did On My Block premiere in March 2018?

All ten first-season episodes dropped on 16 March 2018. It was renewed within a month.

What is the name of the fictional Los Angeles neighbourhood where the show is set?

Brentwood is the wealthy area the friends go trick-or-treating in. The neighbourhood later gave its name to the spinoff.

Who created On My Block?

Iungerich had previously created MTV's Awkward. She wrote and directed the first, second and final chapters.

Which character serves as the leader of the friend group and is raised by her single father?

Sierra Capri plays her. She spends the summer before season one at a writing camp.

What is Ruby's full name?

He is the group's math whiz and conscience, played by Jason Genao, who was previously in Netflix's The Get Down.

What is Jamal obsessed with finding in season one?

He lies to his parents about being interested in football to cover the search.

Why is Cesar forced into gang life in season one?

Oscar has been bailed out and wants him in the Santos. Cesar sabotages his own friendships to protect Monse from it.

What is Oscar Diaz's nickname?

Julio Macias played him, earning two Imagen Award nominations. He is a high-level member of the Santos.

What is the name of the Diaz brothers' gang?

The Prophets are their long-time rivals, and 19th Street turns up in later seasons.

Which classmate has a romantic obsession with Ruby and eventually dates him in season three?

Jessica Marie Garcia played her, recurring in season one and a series regular from season two.

What is the name of Ruby's grandmother, known to everyone as Abuelita?

Peggy Blow said the character reminded her of her three aunts in Chicago. She helps Jamal with a clue about the money.

Why does Ruby's love interest, a family friend, move in with the Martinez family in season one?

She is a friend of the family, and Ruby falls for her almost immediately.

Where has Monse been for three months at the start of season one?

She comes home to find Ruby and Jamal freezing Cesar out, and has to work out why.

Which wealthy neighbourhood does Jamal take the group trick-or-treating in on Halloween?

It is really a cover to follow Abuelita's lead to Frankie's girlfriend Rosé, a former Soul Train dancer.

Rosé, who Jamal and Monse meet on Halloween, was formerly what?

She tells them about Li'l Ricky, Frankie's best friend, who Jamal reckons hid the money.

Who kisses Cesar at the end of the Halloween episode, setting off the season's drama?

Cesar tells Jamal, who gives him a deadline to confess before Jamal blurts it out himself.

How does Jamal end up winning a football game he never wanted to play in?

He then confesses to his parents that he hates football, and to his surprise they are fine with it.

Chivo, the gardener with a link to the RollerWorld money, turns out to be whose cousin?

Jamal finds a key hidden in one of his garden gnomes. Emilio Rivera of Sons of Anarchy played Chivo.

What does the key Jamal finds in Chivo's garden gnome unlock?

The boxes lead the group on a scavenger hunt across town with Abuelita in tow.

How is it confirmed that the woman Monse babysits for is her mother?

Julia had left when Monse was young. Their reunion is a big thread of season two.

The 'gold coins' the group finds in a church at the end of the treasure trail turn out to be what?

Ruby and Monse turn on Jamal, and a hopeless Cesar pulls a gun on Latrelle.

At what event does Latrelle open fire in the season one finale?

Ruby steps in front of Cesar and the bullet passes through both Ruby and Olivia, just as Jamal finally digs up the money.

Where does Jamal finally find the RollerWorld money?

Coach Ron later comes after him over the dug-up field. He is shovelling as the shooting happens across town.

Season two opens a month later with the news that who has died from the shooting?

Ruby wakes from a coma traumatised. The Santos and Prophets call a truce, and Oscar kicks Cesar out of the gang for sparing Latrelle.

Why does Cesar end up homeless at the start of season two?

Monse promises her father he will not stay at their house, so she lets him sleep in the car instead.

Where does Jamal's mother accidentally send the football bag containing the RollerWorld money?

They fish it out of a donation bin, then have to dodge Officer Hammel with help from Jasmine, who is in the police Explorer program.

Ruby's older brother Mario comes home from his internship in season two with what news?

The family is not thrilled. Danny Ramirez, later of Top Gun: Maverick, played Mario.

What is the name of the local restaurant owned by Jamal's father?

Cesar and Spooky's father Ray works there after getting out of prison in later seasons.

What was Cuchillos, played by Ada Luz Pla in season three?

Rosé Westbrook, the former Soul Train dancer, was her best friend back when she was still called Stacy.

How much time has passed when season four opens with Monse returning to the neighbourhood?

Her father has remarried and had a child, Jamal is a football star and Cesar now runs the Santos.

In season four, what office is Ruby campaigning for?

He and Jasmine are official by then but going through a rough patch.

When Monse comes home in season four, what has changed in her father Monty's life?

Her friends have split up too: Jamal is a football star, Ruby is running for class president and Cesar leads the Santos.

How many seasons of On My Block were made?

Netflix announced the fourth would be the last in January 2021, and it arrived that October.

On My Block won which category at the 2018 Teen Choice Awards?

It was also nominated at the Black Reel Awards and the Imagen Awards.

What was the name of the On My Block spinoff that premiered in February 2023?

It stars Bryana Salaz, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Ciara Riley Wilson and Shiv Pai and was created by the same team.

What was Sierra Capri, who plays Monse, studying in Savannah when she began as an extra?

She never studied acting, and worked as an uncredited extra in Hidden Figures and Neighbors 2.

Before On My Block, Diego Tinoco appeared as Mateo in season six of which supernatural series?

He was born in Cincinnati and grew up in Anaheim, with a Mexican father and Ecuadorian mother.

Brett Gray, who plays Jamal, later voiced Dal R'El in which animated series?

On My Block was his first lead role; he said he saw himself in Jamal.

Jessica Marie Garcia (Jasmine) had her breakthrough as Willow Cruz on which Disney show?

She kept working at a restaurant while filming it. She also played Rhonda on How to Get Away with Murder.

Which MTV series had On My Block co-creator Lauren Iungerich created previously?

It was set in the Palos Verdes area where she grew up. She wrote and directed On My Block's finale.

How many episodes were in the first season of On My Block?

Every season kept to that tight count, which is part of why critics praised the show for never wasting a minute of screen time.

In which month and year did the fourth and final season premiere?

Netflix had announced the renewal for a final season back in January 2021, giving the Freeridge crew nine more months before their farewell.

Latrelle belongs to which gang, a longtime rival of the crew Cesar's brother runs with?

Played by Jahking Guillory, Latrelle is the shooter at the end of season one and returns as a guest in the final season.

Before playing Ruby, Jason Genao recurred as Napoleon in which Netflix series?

The Jersey City native made his screen debut in the 2015 comedy Ladrones before landing the Baz Luhrmann-produced hip-hop drama in 2016.

Julio Macias, who plays Oscar, portrayed Pete Astudillo in which Netflix biographical drama?

The Mexico City-born actor earned two Imagen Award nominations for On My Block before playing the Selena y Los Dinos keyboardist and songwriter.

Jessica Marie Garcia played Rhonda Navarro on which thriller series from 2018 to 2019?

Garcia juggled the Shondaland legal thriller with On My Block, where she was promoted from recurring player to series regular in season two.

Danny Ramirez, Ruby's brother Mario, later played which Marvel Cinematic Universe character?

Ramirez inherited the Falcon wings in Captain America: Brave New World and also flew as a pilot in Top Gun: Maverick.

Emilio Rivera, who plays the gardener Chivo, is best known as Marcus Álvarez in which series?

Rivera played the biker boss for seven seasons and then another five in the spin-off Mayans M.C., a long way from tending garden gnomes.

Which season of On My Block holds a perfect 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes?

The first season sat at 95% and the third at 91%, so the middle run is the one critics could not find a single fault with.

Freeridge lead Keyla Monterroso Mejia first appeared in On My Block in which episode?

Her 2021 guest spot set up the spin-off, and she went on to play Gloria, leader of the new friend group, when Freeridge arrived in 2023.