Here's one that TV critic Twitter won't shut the fuck up about - Netflix's re...make? reboot? of One Day at a Time. I threw it on in the background a couple months ago, watched an episode, thought it was fine but nothing special, and watched maybe two or three more sporadically over the next few weeks. But as so often is the case with sitcoms, this picked up steam and charm and likability as it went on. I've finished the first season now, and yeah, I can safely say I really like this show.
All it is, really, is a throwback sitcom that isn't afraid to "get real" and discuss controvoersial issues the way real people do. At the center of this one is a Cuban-American family living in Los Angeles and variously dealing with, among other things, PTSD, generational gender role strife, immigration politics in 2017, discovering and understanding sexual identities, being teenagers, being mothers, being Cubans, being Americans. It's not heavy, by any stretch, and that's probably why it works so well; it's just a generally upbeat, genuinely likable show about a family in 2017.
Also, mad props to Rita Moreno, 84 years old here and still just crushing it.
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