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Pride Month: 8 Iconic Latinx LGBTQ TV Characters

Cristina EscobarJune 1, 2020July 10, 2020

by Cristina EscobarJune 1, 2020July 10, 2020015084

This year we’re celebrating Pride inside. Of course, marking June as LGBTQ pride month was never really about the parties – the month commemorates the Stonewall Uprising and the birth of the modern LGBTQ movement. And the parades were always...

9 Latinas Who Are Changing Hollywood

Cristina EscobarMay 7, 2020July 16, 2020

by Cristina EscobarMay 7, 2020July 16, 2020014965

If you watched the Emmys this year, you’d be forgiven for thinking Latinas don’t exist. Not a single one of us made it on the broadcast, not as a nominee or a presenter. In fact, as a group, we’re the...

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7 Reasons to Escape COVID with ‘On My Block’

Cristina EscobarApril 5, 2020July 24, 2020

by Cristina EscobarApril 5, 2020July 24, 2020034970

These are dark times but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still spots of brightness. Before Americans were paying attention to COVID-19, before we knew what “social distancing” meant, Netflix dropped the third season of On My Block and if you...

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21 New Latinx Shows to Watch Now

Cristina EscobarMarch 26, 2020July 29, 2020

by Cristina EscobarMarch 26, 2020July 29, 2020016591

We need some affirmation. The news is horrifying, our government’s response is lacking, and things seem like they’re going to keep getting worse before they get better. TV can be an escape but it can also be frustrating when you...

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20 Times ‘Gentefied’ Made Us Feel Seen

Cristina EscobarMarch 5, 2020July 30, 2020

by Cristina EscobarMarch 5, 2020July 30, 2020013164

The abuela saying, “food is love.” Flat-billed Dodgers hats. Girls named Nayeli and Yessika. These are the details Netflix’s Gentefied uses to tell its story of a family and a community trying to achieve their dreams. Set in Boyle Heights...

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‘Party of Five’ Episode Ten Recap: We Need More Time with the Acostas

Cristina EscobarMarch 3, 2020July 27, 2020

by Cristina EscobarMarch 3, 2020July 27, 202003415

There are real human costs to America’s immigration policy. Freeform’s Party of Five explored those consequences deftly as it followed the five Acosta children after their parents were deported. The first season ends with the heartbreaking tenth episode that found...

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‘Party of Five’ Episode Nine Recap: The Acosta Family Is Not Alright

Cristina EscobarFebruary 27, 2020July 23, 2020

by Cristina EscobarFebruary 27, 2020July 23, 202003619

There are lots of consequences when the parents of five kids get deported. There’s the baby who loses his experienced caretakers. The middle schooler who’s lost with no sense of safety or identity at home. There are the teenagers who...

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Gentefied Delivers Lots of Brown Love and Laughter

Cristina EscobarFebruary 24, 2020July 23, 2020

by Cristina EscobarFebruary 24, 2020July 23, 202007616

Watching Gentefied, I started off nervous. My social media feed has been full of shout outs for the show for months with the chatter only getting louder when it finally dropped Friday on Netflix. I so wanted this rare show...

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‘Party of Five’ Episode Eight Recap: Heartache Actually

Cristina EscobarFebruary 19, 2020July 23, 2020

by Cristina EscobarFebruary 19, 2020July 23, 202003388

“Do you have any poems on the subject?” “Poems about the border? Only about a thousand of them.” These words start the final sequence of Party of Five’s eighth episode, “Dos y Dos.” The remaining lines are Natalia reading her...

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‘Party of Five’ Episode Seven Recap: Crying Righteous Tears

Cristina EscobarFebruary 12, 2020July 22, 2020

by Cristina EscobarFebruary 12, 2020July 22, 202004400

I cried real tears during Lucia’s speech. Let me set the stage for you. Lucia is a 16-year-old American girl and her parents have been deported. She’s mad. And she’s already tried all the typical teenage stuff – she’s rebelled...

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‘Party of Five’ Season One, Episode Five Recap: Parenting is Hard

Cristina EscobarJanuary 29, 2020July 21, 2020

by Cristina EscobarJanuary 29, 2020July 21, 202003247

Babies are a lot of work. They’re helpless, relying on their caregivers for everything: food, love, entertainment — a clean butt. I know, I’ve got two. One is younger than the Party of Five’s baby Rafa. The older Acosta kids...

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‘Party of Five’ Season One, Episode Four Recap: Are We All Becoming Our Parents?

Cristina EscobarJanuary 22, 2020July 20, 2020

by Cristina EscobarJanuary 22, 2020July 20, 202002987

Imagine catching your reflection in a darkened window — you have a baby on your hip, another kid at your side, and an apron around your waist. Your hair is up because you’re cooking your mom’s menudo. You might freak...

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