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One Day at a Time
Mar. 5th, 2017 03:48 pmNetflix has remade the 80s sitcome ONE DAY AT A TIME. The difference? The working-class single mom now heads up a Cuban family. Grandma lives with them, and she's played by (surprise!) Rita Moreno. Schneider isn't so much the building super as a slightly batty trust-fund baby who has nothing better to do than to hang out with the family.
It's a fun show, and I'm enjoying it. It takes a number of issues facing the Hispanic (Cuban) community head-on: preparing for a quinceneras; families split up by deportation; veterans and the VA; veterans and PTSD; discovering a teen child is gay; figuring out how to balance being Cuban with being American. Lydia, the grandmother, has a particularly poignant story about her role in the Pedro Pan flights from Cuba in 1962. Like all families, they fight, make up, worry about money, deal with divorce, and hide and reveal secrets. The main point? This Cuban-American family is just like yours.
The show is well worth watching.
It's a fun show, and I'm enjoying it. It takes a number of issues facing the Hispanic (Cuban) community head-on: preparing for a quinceneras; families split up by deportation; veterans and the VA; veterans and PTSD; discovering a teen child is gay; figuring out how to balance being Cuban with being American. Lydia, the grandmother, has a particularly poignant story about her role in the Pedro Pan flights from Cuba in 1962. Like all families, they fight, make up, worry about money, deal with divorce, and hide and reveal secrets. The main point? This Cuban-American family is just like yours.
The show is well worth watching.
