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- Starz
- May 6, 2018
- Starz
- May 6, 2018
Summary Estranged sisters Emma (Mishel Prada) and Lyn (Melissa Barrera) return to the Eastside of Los Angeles after the death of their mother, where they must deal with the family business and discover secrets about their mother in the half-hour drama.
Created By: Tanya Saracho
- Starz
- May 6, 2018
- Starz
- May 6, 2018
Summary Estranged sisters Emma (Mishel Prada) and Lyn (Melissa Barrera) return to the Eastside of Los Angeles after the death of their mother, where they must deal with the family business and discover secrets about their mother in the half-hour drama.
Created By: Tanya Saracho
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Generally Favorable
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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How to honor the memory of a beloved is its theme, or one of them. You can't get much more universal than that. Fine newcomer with excellent cast, and some universal themes.
Every actor on Vida is great; Barrera’s performance in particular blooms with searing clarity as Lyn is forced to face her own reckless choices. But it’s Prada’s Emma who becomes both the backbone and the beating heart of Vida as she grapples with her mother’s truth and the painful reality of learning it too late.
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 28 User Ratings
6.5
61% Positive
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
14% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
25% Negative
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
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At typical drama length, this series might have been bogged down with plot digressions and expansions. As it is, it sometimes slips into melodrama, but the lapses pass quickly. Life may be too short, but Vida is just right.
Despite the hardly surprising plotting, Vida excels as a series with a notably different look and feel.
It feels authentic, save for one calculated-to-take-advantage-of-premium-cable scene in the premiere (characters on TV seem more prone to engage in grief-fueled sex at funeral receptions than people do in real life).
A confident yet dawdling new dramedy.
Alas, Saracho, whose previous credits include “How To Get Away With Murder” and Lifetime’s Latina-driven “Devious Maids,” doesn’t offer much new or surprising about what motivates people who find themselves in such predicaments. The characters’ personal basic troubles and quandaries are simply stretched out and reiterated, and rarely affectingly probed.