Seventeen-year-old Lochan and sixteen-year-old Maya are the de facto parents of their three younger siblings, as their mother is an absentee alcoholic. Their deep emotional bond, forged through shared trauma and responsibility, eventually crosses into a clandestine and desperate romantic love. Analysis of Relationships and Romantic Storylines Prohibido by Tabitha Suzuma - Goodreads
Here, the show plays with the prohibido as a game. The "forbidden" includes interracial marriage (ironically accepted here) but also secret identities (Lady Whistledown) and pre-marital desire. The show's genius is that it maintains the feeling of prohibition (society's watchful eye) while slowly removing the real barriers. That is a wall
A parent who disapproves of your poor boyfriend? That is a wall. A married boss who offers you secret hotel rooms? That is a cliff. forged through shared trauma and responsibility