Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVTanya Saracho performed no small feat trying to tie up the complex character relationships in her Starz comedy “Vida” in a six-episode final season.
But even as she was juggling tumultuous familial relationships with Lyn (Melissa Barrera) and Emma (Mishel Prada) learning their father is actually alive with equally rocky romantic relationships for each sister, and an increasingly volatile activism storyline that involved ICE, she didn’t want to forego hosting a couple of big events.Enter a drag king show and a “queerceañera.”These became ways to “elevate the culture and look at the experience in East L.A.,” says Saracho, but also to send off the three-season series with some celebration.Marcos’.
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