49 Fun Facts About On My Block

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

Netflix released the whole first season on 16 March 2018 and renewed the show for a second season the following 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?

Lauren Iungerich, Eddie Gonzalez and Jeremy Haft created the coming-of-age series, and Iungerich also served as its showrunner.

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

Monse Finnie, played by Sierra Capri, is the headstrong leader of the group, raised by her truck-driver father Monty after her mother left.

What is Ruby's full name?

Ruby's full name is Ruben Martinez Jr.; he is named after his father, Ruben Sr., and is played by Jason Genao.

What is Jamal obsessed with finding in season one?

Jamal's fixation is 'The hidden RollerWorld money', the legendary loot from a decades-old robbery; he hunts it while pretending to his football-mad father that he is on the team.

Why is Cesar forced into gang life in season one?

His brother is released from prison and pressures him: Oscar comes home in the pilot and expects Cesar to run with his crew, so Cesar pushes his friends away for their safety.

What is Oscar Diaz's nickname?

Spooky is Oscar Diaz's gang name; played by Julio Macias, the tattooed older Diaz brother is a feared shot-caller on the block.

What is the name of the Diaz brothers' gang?

The Santos are the Diaz brothers' gang; Oscar is a senior member and Cesar is expected to follow him in.

Which character secretly starts a relationship with Jamal in the final season?

Jasmine and Jamal grow close while investigating together in the final season and hide their relationship from Ruby, her ex-boyfriend.

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

Marisol Martinez, played by Peggy Blow, is Ruby's sharp-tongued grandmother Abuelita, who joins the teens' hunt for the missing money.

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

'Her parents were deported', so the teenage family friend is taken in by the Martinez household, where Ruby falls for her almost immediately.

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

Monse has been away 'At a writing camp' for the summer; she returns 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?

Brentwood, the wealthy Westside neighbourhood, is where Jamal steers the Halloween trick-or-treating so he can chase a lead on the money from Abuelita.

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?

'Half his team is sent off and he is forced on' after an on-field brawl; the reluctant Jamal ends up winning the game, then admits to his parents that he hates football.

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

Chivo is Li'l Ricky's cousin, and the key Jamal finds hidden in one of his garden gnomes is the next step on the treasure trail.

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?

Chocolates: the 'gold coins' are foil-wrapped candy, leaving Jamal humiliated and his friends convinced the treasure hunt was a dead end.

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

Latrelle opens fire at Olivia's quinceañera in the season one finale, targeting Cesar; the cliffhanger ends with partygoers hit and the group's fate unknown.

Where does Jamal finally find the RollerWorld money?

'Buried in the football field': in the finale Jamal digs up the RollerWorld cash on the school's field while the season's shooting unfolds elsewhere.

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

'Oscar kicks him out and the parents ban him from their homes': thrown out by his brother and seen as a danger to their kids, Cesar ends up sleeping rough until his friends work out a plan.

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?

Dwayne's Joint is the restaurant run by Jamal's father Dwayne Turner, a regular hangout where the friends eat and argue.

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

'The leader of the Santos' is Cuchillos, the ruthless shot-caller who has the teens kidnapped at the start of season three and puts them to work on her own hunt.

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

Two years have passed: Monse returns from boarding school to find the friends estranged, with Jamal now a football star and Cesar running with his brother's old crew.

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?

'He is married and has a child': Monty has remarried while Monse was away at boarding school, and she comes home to a stepmother and a baby in the house.

How many seasons of On My Block were made?

Four seasons were made; the streamer announced in early 2021 that the fourth would be the last.

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

Breakout TV Show was the category On My Block took at the 2018 Teen Choice Awards, months after its debut season.

Which major character is shot dead in the final season?

Oscar is shot dead in the final season, shortly after walking away from gang life to start a family, a loss that pulls Cesar back toward his friends.

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?

Star Trek: Prodigy cast Brett Gray as Dal R'El, the purple-skinned young captain of the USS Protostar, in the Paramount+ animated series.

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

Liv and Maddie, the Disney Channel sitcom starring Dove Cameron in a dual role, gave Garcia her breakthrough as Willow Cruz, Maddie's basketball teammate.

Which MTV teen series had one of On My Block's co-creators made previously?

Awkward, the MTV comedy about teenager Jenna Hamilton, ran from 2011 to 2016; its creator went on to co-create and run On My Block.

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

Ten episodes made up the first season, which arrived all at once in March 2018; the third season was the only shorter run, at eight.

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

October 2021 brought the final season, released in full on 4 October, about nine months after the farewell run was announced.

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

The Prophet$ are Latrelle's gang, longtime rivals of the Diaz brothers' crew; played by Jahking Guillory, Latrelle is the shooter in the season one finale.

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

The Get Down, Baz Luhrmann's 1970s Bronx hip-hop drama, gave the Jersey City native his recurring role as Napoleon in 2016.

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

Selena: The Series cast Macias as Pete Astudillo, the Los Dinos backing singer who co-wrote hits such as 'Como la Flor'.

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?

Joaquin Torres / Falcon is Ramirez's Marvel role: introduced in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, he takes up the Falcon wings in Captain America: Brave New World.

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

Sons of Anarchy introduced Rivera's Mayans president Marcus Álvarez, a role he played across the show's run and carried into the spin-off Mayans M.C.

Which friend survives being shot in the season one finale, then struggles with trauma?

Ruby is hit at the end of season one and spends season two battling nightmares and survivor's guilt.

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.