When Starz's Vida debuted in the spring of 2018, it was, even in the era of Peak TV, a series patently like no other. Centered on two estranged sisters returning to the home and the bar they grew up in after the death of their difficult mother, the half-hour drama was one of a handful of shows about Latinx characters and might well be the first series ever to feature a queer Latina lead.
Tonally, Vida made for a vitalizing brew, blending family melodrama, envelope-pushing sex scenes, sociological analyses of the natural fissures within a Mexican-American neighborhood and thorny questions about identity, community and gentrification.
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