Starz takes you to the west coast and East LA with its new drama airing this week. Vida TV Show on Starz is a half-hour drama series focusing on two Mexican-American sisters from the Eastside of Los Angeles who couldn’t be more different or distanced from each other. Read more about the cast, plot and upcoming episodes.
Vida TV Show Cast
Based on a Latino inspired by a short story by Richard Villegas, Jr. the series captures the identity, culture, gender and sexuality through the lens of a Latinix family and their community.
Vida (2018)
Developed By: Tanya Saracho
Cast: Melissa Barrera, Mishel Prada, Ser Anzoategui
Network: Starz
Air Date: May 6 2018
Timings: Sundays, 8.30 PM ET
Vida TV Show Plot
Vida TV Show follows follows twin sisters, Brook and Lyn Hernandez, who inherit an East LA building from their recently deceased mother who raised them. Circumstances force them to return to their old neighborhood, where they are confronted by the past and shocking truth about their mother’s identity.
They open Pour Vida, a new wine and tapas bar, in a building in Boyle Heights which houses a failing lesbian bar below and a village-like collection of Eastside denizens in three units above.
They find themselves the only thing protecting the tenants from displacement, their mother’s legacy from erasure, and their neighborhood from the Great White Bridge about to bring jalapeño chicken hummus wraps to the ‘hood.
Vida TV Show Trailer
Watch this trailer of Vida TV Show and tell us if you like this new drama about two sisters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0Ic766yWFE
Vida TV Show Review
The series doesn’t grab you but still keeps you interested in the story of the twin sisters as they find out new truths about their mother and howblife has passed them in their old neighborhood.
The pace of the show might seem a bit slow early on, but if you like to root for heroes who fight against odds to protect the weak, Vida gives you that steeped in Latina culture and connects you to the Hernandez sisters.
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