This show had to be the hardest thing to listen to or watch in a long time.
The show covers a very real cultural gap between first generation Mexican parents and their children. It just chooses to do it in the worst way possible, amplifying stereotypes and making everyone sound like a jerk. While confronting the deeper communal divide between Mexican subcultures the show forgets Spanish altogether.
It's not uncommon to hear "Spanglish" coming from Latinos in LA. More often than not someone will pick a language, Spanish or English, and stick with it for an entire sentence the best they can; If they don't know a word in one language they'll pop in with the language they do know it in. Not on Vida! One word every two or three sentences has to be belted out in Spanish with a forced accent to remind you, ey! These gente are Mexicans! Such a disparaging misrepresentation of the area, the people, and the language.
Worst of all the story is flat. The young girl in the pink dress is Emma, she's being called back to a culture she's rejected for a career. Emma keeps calling her mother a hypocrite because Mexican parents can be staunch conservatives but her mother was a culturally unacceptable lesbian, blah blah blah.
The obvious next step for this show is to have a drunk man in a gabán and sombrero firing revolvers into the air.
The show covers a very real cultural gap between first generation Mexican parents and their children. It just chooses to do it in the worst way possible, amplifying stereotypes and making everyone sound like a jerk. While confronting the deeper communal divide between Mexican subcultures the show forgets Spanish altogether.
It's not uncommon to hear "Spanglish" coming from Latinos in LA. More often than not someone will pick a language, Spanish or English, and stick with it for an entire sentence the best they can; If they don't know a word in one language they'll pop in with the language they do know it in. Not on Vida! One word every two or three sentences has to be belted out in Spanish with a forced accent to remind you, ey! These gente are Mexicans! Such a disparaging misrepresentation of the area, the people, and the language.
Worst of all the story is flat. The young girl in the pink dress is Emma, she's being called back to a culture she's rejected for a career. Emma keeps calling her mother a hypocrite because Mexican parents can be staunch conservatives but her mother was a culturally unacceptable lesbian, blah blah blah.
The obvious next step for this show is to have a drunk man in a gabán and sombrero firing revolvers into the air.