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TV Review - Gentefied

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When I wrote about the series Party of Five (2020) , I talked about the recent, Latino-American wave on television. The wave was specifically a wave of remakes that took old, TV ideas and invigorated them with predominantly, Hispanic or Latino-American casts. This wave could be argued to have started seven years back with more original ideas like Orange Is The New Black (2013) and East Los High (2013), which weren't remakes. If you look at the greater group of TV shows that feature Latino-American casts or Latino-American leads, they've mostly been sitcoms like One Day at a Time (2017) or comedies like Jane the Virgin (2014), which is a telenovela spoof. Serious dramas like Party of Five or Mayans M.C. (2018) are rare. This series, created by Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez, could be considered somewhere between, a dramedy as it were. It's probably more akin in tone to On My Block (2018), but instead of focusing on teenagers, this series is more for Latinos ove