The series is helmed by an all-Latinx writing staff and unravels a tangled web of queer identity, family estrangement and gentrification in the Spanish communities of East Los Angeles.

This new series about two Mexican-American sisters brought back together by their mother's death is off to an engrossing if sometimes irritating start.

An intriguing, intimate, and culturally expressive approach to storytelling.

Sisters return to East L.A. in unique, tender drama.

With a strong cast and a clear focus on identity and homecoming, Vida explores a familiar story through a unique and thought-provoking Latina/Latinx lens

The care with which they've written this world guides us into its complications with a level of understanding that one hopes can also earn the audience's patience.

Despite the hardly surprising plotting, Vida excels as a series with a notably different look and feel.

Vida is a vibrant show with two excellent leads. It has the potential to turn into an interesting ensemble given time, but this has been one of the few shows this year that have left me wanting more.

Vida's instant sense of place has that specific, complicated feeling of home.

Vida only has six half-hour episodes in its first season, but it uses every one of them to tell vital stories that TV has traditionally ignored.

The vibrant series from Tanya Saracho touches on a number of issues from gentrification to assimilation and a decent amount of divisions in the community.

It's a very good, very complicated story about people who keep doing things that are frustrating, that seem to take them either a step backward or a step sideways for no good reason.

Still, there's a worthy show to be found in the characters who live in and hang out at Vida's old place, a story that is unerring in its details and full of ideas about the cultures it portrays.

Sexual identity, and plenty of graphic sex, are a big part of the picture here, but the more interesting subplots are in Vida's depiction of the Boyle Heights resistance.

It's a refreshing and beautiful series that feels both current and seriously overdue.