'Vida', the series of Latinas, bisexuals and millennials in Los Angeles

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Life

begins with an atypical heterosexual sex scene (then the lesbian will come) and a funeral.

It could seem like any city in Mexico, except that it is Los Angeles, that eastern area in which more than 90% of the population is Mexican.

Although in Spain it has passed without pain or glory,

broke schemes in the United States when StarzPlay premiered it in 2018:

and absolutely transgressive.

In Vida there are no taboos: neither sexual, nor identity, nor linguistic.

Emblem of the Latin community and the LGTBI community at the same time,

and purely

, this is how this gem is that has hardly been talked about in Europe.

The plot: two radically opposite sisters, Lyn (

) and Emma (

) meet again when their mother Vidalia unexpectedly dies.

As an inheritance, he bequeaths them a bar drowned in debts and an old building.

That, and the discovery that this hyper-masculine waitress is actually his stepmother.

A starting point for a

not so simple

, in which the protagonists are the new Americans.

Not American enough, not Mexican enough.

A limbo that director and screenwriter

born in Mexico and raised in Texas, knows well.

Saracho was one of the founders of the Luna Theater in Chicago, a company of Latino actors who claimed roles outside the stereotypes of maid, gardener, drug dealer and / or thief, lover and / or prostitute, etc.

is this:

behind it, exploring that balancing act of the Mexican-American second generation, something that is not generally seen in fiction.

Chelsea Rendon plays an anti-gentrification activist.

If

portrayed the Cuban Hialeah in his

(where, by the way, Mishel Prada grew up), Vida does the same with

, far from the surf life of Venice Beach, the glamor of Hollywood or the idyllic postcard of palm trees and sun.

The series is based on the short story

by young writer

, who was born here in East Los Angeles.

against gentrification

When the two Hernández sisters return to the neighborhood where they grew up to refloat their mother's bar, they run into pressure from real estate companies, creditors and the rejection of their own.

They are too gringas, that is,

Latinas with a light skin tone or, simply, too Americanized.

First neologism.

Then comes

when the gentrification process is due to high-wage Latinos themselves, who buy businesses and modernize (or standardize) the neighborhood with

stores

, hipster bars and apartments that double the rents.

Latest neologism:

(

chicanos).

This is

in Los Angeles, where the traditional Mexican aesthetic murals disappear to make way for multinational advertisements.

But some mythical places, like the Hernández girls' bar, resist.

That was

too:

, though Starz canceled it after three seasons.

There is that other part of Los Angeles, so Hispanic, so American.

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