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The series follows three generations of the same Cuban-American family living in the same house: a newly divorced former military mother, her teenage daughter and tween son, and her old-school mother. Nobody puts the love in tough love quite like the Alvarez family.
18 July 1966, Potomac, Maryland, USA
14 June 1931, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 January 1980, New York City, New York, USA
13 February 1967
19 April 1952, Havana, Cuba
1978
29 October 1962, Denver, Colorado, USA
19 August 1982, Lyndhurst, New Jersey, USA
8 October 1975, Wichita, Kansas, USA
January 06, 2017
When it tackles tough issues like sexism, immigration and faith-as well as PSTD and Veterans' Affairs... -this is as pungent as TV's current standard-bearer, CBS's Mom, and just as memorable.
January 06, 2017
The real-world issues give it weight, while the warmth of the family gives it heart.
January 05, 2017
Not perfect, but pretty darned good, and Moreno and Machado are a formidable comedy team indeed.
January 09, 2017
What's here is sincere in its intentions, honest to its characters, and clever on every level.
February 01, 2017
A bracing reminder of what the sitcom format can do.
January 06, 2017
There's an interview that can be found online that begins with Ms. Moreno declaring, "I have no objection to playing a Hispanic. I have every objection to playing a stereotype." Not every objection, to judge by the new One Day at a Time.
January 05, 2017
For a lot of people, it may be enough to have such a warm, loving Cuban-American family portrayed in a sitcom, a format that has not presented people from such a culture with much understanding in the past.
January 09, 2017
If One Day At A Time can elevate its comedy to match the more serious moments, it just might become the kind of groundbreaking television show the original was.
January 10, 2017
One Day at a Time may try too hard to offer something for everyone, but it embraces what matters when it most counts.
