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Based on a 2016 web series, “Gentefied” is a small-town comedy that announces its intentions in its very first scene, when what looks like a robbery about to happen turns out to be the return of a library book. In one nice stroke, it plays to television’s habitual criminalization of the poor and reminds us that life everywhere is, well, normal.
The action, set in the predominantly Mexican American neighborhood of Boyle Heights, centers on three cousins and their grandfather, called Pop , who runs a taqueria named for his late wife and stands for the honored and perhaps fatally intransigent older generation. Erik works for Pop and has a baby coming with Lidia , his former girlfriend who in almost every respect is his superior. Ana is an aspiring artist, with a young daughter and a female partner, Yessika .
Chris is back in town after a decade, having earned a business degree that allows him to say things like “That’s just the free market” when it comes to discussing the changing economics of the neighborhood. But he’s working in the kitchen at a fancy Arts District restaurant and hoping to enroll at Le Cordon Bleu. Their shared concern is the survival of the taqueria, which is behind on the rent.
The show is certainly topical and political — Trump and his wall, the threat of ICE and toxic masculinity all get a shoutout, as do “greedy landlords waiting to replace us with ramen spots.” But ultimately “Gentefied’s” strengths are personal: a universally understood, mostly sunny story of people driving their loved ones a little crazy while they sort out their lives. You may relate. (
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