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(Disclaimer: I'm two degrees of separation from Tanya Saracho, whose show this is.)

I'm a little nervous about comparing Vida to Jaime Hernandez's rightfully famous Locas comics in Love and Rockets, because that could just be a pointless way of saying that I'm unfamiliar with other serialized fiction about Mexican-Americans in Los Angeles (also, a comic is not a TV storyboard, duh). But what I mean, besides that Vida is really really good, is that the writing and directing(*) in both of them share some distinctive qualities that work especially well for the stories they're telling. I'll get to that in a minute, I just wanted to put it up front because as soon as I realized what this was slightly reminding me of, I was pretty much guaranteed to like it.
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