As 'Vida' is renewed for a second season, two Latina writers debate what it does well and what it could do better
LOS ANGELES - When the drama "Vida" landed on the Starz network in May, it generated plenty of expectation. For one, there was the story of two estranged Mexican American sisters coping with their mother's death amid the creeping changes of the Latino neighborhood they grew up in. And the show was led by a Latina showrunner (Tanya Saracho) and an almost all-Latina writer's room on an English-language television network, an event bordering on the historic.
"We don't get a lot of chances to tell our complicated narratives," Saracho told The Times upon the show's debut. "I feel like progress will be made in the landscape of Latino influence when we get to tell those murky, real close-to-life narratives."
Those complex narratives are likely why "Vida" was renewed for a second season. The show tells the story of career-focused lawyer Emma (played by Mishel Prada) and her flaky younger sister, Lyn (Melissa Barrera), who come together to deal with their mother's personal effects in the wake of her death. This
