It’s been over a year since audiences met the Morales clan and their Boyle Heights, Los Angeles taco shop, Mama Fina’s.
At the end of Season 1, the group knew that Mama Fina’s was on death’s door, set to be bought out by a gentrifying white woman interested in turning it into a pop-up shop.
On top of that, family patriarch Casimiro, aka Pop (Joaquín Cosio), had been picked up on a routine traffic violation and was being detained by Ice.
With so much tension built up, creators Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez could have made this a heavily dramatized season.
And it is, no doubt, but “Gentefied” always retains the sense of heart and community that made Season 1 so special.Last season was about not only introducing us to the characters, but bringing them together.
Cousins Erik (Joseph Julian Soria), Ana (Karrie Martin), and Chris
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