Starz ‘Vida’ Season 2 is Premiering in May with All 10 Episodes!

YOU HEAR THAT NOISE? THAT SCREAMING IN THE DISTANCE? THAT’S ME FREAKING OVER STARZ VIDA SEASON COMING MAY 23RD! As if my queer Latina heart couldn’t handle anymore goodness in my life, all 10 episodes of Vida will drop in…

Our favorite TV Shows of 2018

There’s a lot of good TV out there. No, really, a hell of a lot of good TV, trust me, someone who just had to spiral her way into somehow narrowing this list down. But narrow it I have, with…

Starz ‘Vida’ Casts Raul Castillo & Adrian Gonzalez for Season 2

Raul Castillo and Adrian Gonzalez have been cast for reccuring roles in Starz Vida, a Latinx half-hour show about two sisters, played by Melissa Barrera and Mishel Prada, coming back home after the death of their mother. Raul Castillo is…

‘Vida’ Renewed for Season 2 at Starz

There’s more Vida in the cards for all of us. Yes, Starz  has renewed the half-hour drama from creator Tanya Saracho. No, we don’t know yet when the show would return or with how many episodes. And yet, right now,…

‘Vida’ 1×06 Season One Finale Review: Finding Our Way Home

Vida’s season one finale takes an unexpected turn with Eddy being attacked, Lyn breaking up with Johnny, and the sisters deciding that they’re going to keep the bar and make it better than ever. For a season finale, it’s honestly…

‘Vida’ 1×05 Review: A Divide Between the Community

Starz Vida‘s fifth episode saw the Latina and Whitina clash, a wife and two daughters on vastly different journeys through grief, and Lyn aka the least dependable of the bunch, actually coming through. (Still surprised by that last bit: and…

‘Vida’ 1×04 Review: Sorry, Not Sorry That I’m Not Easily Defined

Every week I am astonished and blown away by how much Vida is kicking stereotypes right in the cara! The fourth episode of this Starz series follows in that tradition and presents a story of three vastly different women and…

‘Vida’ 1×03 Review: Setting the Standard for the Female Form on TV

Starz “Vida” delivered the hottest lesbian sex scene I’ve ever seen (let’s get that out there first) in its 3rd episode, made it clear that Lyn needs a stern wake up call where she understands it’s time to stop depending…

‘Vida’ 1×02 Review: The Female Gaze, Gentrification, and Jupiters Penis

Starz Vida continued proving that there is nothing else like it on screen with the way that it showed EVERYTHING from the female gaze, lit a fire under Emma to give gentrification the bird, and dived into the mind of a…

Queerly Not Straight: ‘Vida’ & ‘Timeless’ Make My Queer Heart Feel Blessed

In an effort to build a space for queer people like myself, every Tuesday I’ll be posting opinion pieces, listicals, reviews, and more focused on the LGBT community. Welcome to the first post for Queerly Not Straight! Enjoy and leave…

‘Vida’ 1×01 Review: Two Sisters, One Funeral, and Lots of Flan

Vida’s series premiere flies directly in the face of peoples’ fears that they wouldn’t be able to understand a story such as this unless they themselves were Latinx or queer. A lot of the success of Vida and it’s relatability is due to the…

Starz ‘Vida’ Advanced Review: When Latinx Creators Take the Wheel

What do you get when you actually put the time and effort into providing opportunities to create, direct, write, and produce content by Latinx & queer creators and actors? You get Vida, of course. This new show, which premieres on…

Starz First Look at “Vida” Treats Latinx Stories Like…Any Other Story

Anytime Hollywood tells me they’re going to take on a Latinx story I’m like, “Here we go again.” I’m wary and ready to expect: Latinx women with bright red lipstick, popping gum, cholas, and the maid of some random hotel…

Starz’s “Vida”: Latinx Writers and Queer Voices Taking Center Stage

Starz’s Vida is a Latinx writers/creators wet dream. There, I said it. No take backs. Hell, it’s a Latinx queer woman’s wet dream. And it’s the kind of content that we need on our screens today. Vida is a half-hour…