Starz Says Adiós To ‘Vida’; GLAAD Media Award Winner To End With Third Season

(UPDATED with trailer) The third season of Vida will nonetheless debut on April 26, however there will probably be no extra of the barrier busting Latinx sequence from Tanya Saracho after that.

“This goodbye is just too bittersweet for phrases,” the showrunner mentioned in a crafted letter at present as Starz made public the cancellation of the Melissa Barrera, Mishel Prada and Ser Anzoategui starring Latinx sequence (learn the complete letter from Saracho beneath)

Having debuted on Could 6, 2018, the Boyle Heights set and LGBTQ targeted Vida noticed estranged sisters Emma (Prada) and Lyn (Barrera) returning to their outdated East LA neighborhood of to bury their mom, promote her bar and get again to the very completely different lives, solely to find secrets and techniques of id, affection and neighborhood. A posh relationship with gentrification, on quite a lot of ranges, additionally characterised the sequence, which I deemed top-of-the-line new exhibits of 2018 – and is for my part can also be top-of-the-line exhibits of this Peak TV period.

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In that vein, simply earlier than Vida’s second season aired, the present gained the GLAAD Media Award for Excellent Comedy sequence final 12 months.

As dozens of exhibits go darkish because of the coronavirus, the choice by the now Jeffrey Hirsch-run Starz to drag the plug on Vida was really made a number of weeks in the past, I hear. Forged like Within the Heights star Barrera and workers have been lengthy conscious of the place issues have been going. Nonetheless, publish manufacturing of the Saracho and Jenée LaMarque directed Season three of Vida was concluded within the simply previous couple of weeks.

To that finish, penned by an all-Latinx writers room, the six-episode remaining season goals to carry the story to its meant conclusion, Saracho indicated on Wednesday.

“I do hope you’re capable of give this, our final season, a very good ship off, as a result of let me let you know, it’s a highly effective one,” the Alliance of Latinx Theater Artists (ALTA) of Chicago co-founder added. “It’s simply as compelling as ever with some imagery and themes I’ve by no means seen on tv earlier than. I’m profoundly happy with it.”

So, earlier than you try the ultimate cycle of Vida beginning subsequent month, check out this newest trailer right here:

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Learn the complete letter from Vida creator Tanya Saracho right here:

I’ve not been capable of write this letter — each time I attempt my palms get sweaty, my coronary heart does a cumbia beat and I get nauseous. It’s taken me days. As a result of regardless of the way you slice it, it is a farewell letter. So I’ll get that half out of the way in which: Season Three will probably be VIDA’s remaining season. Slightly than dwell on the ‘hows’ and the ‘whys,’ what I’m burning to get to is the ‘thank-you’ half. That’s the half that’s making my chest ache.

Once I started this journey three and a half years in the past, I by no means dreamed that by the top of the method I’d be so wholly modified — thoughts, physique and spirit — and that I’d be standing so strongly in my talents to run and create a TV present the way in which it ought to have at all times been created: By us. Once I began this, the panorama was a bleak one for Latinx illustration. Within the tv panorama, the narratives about us have been few and much between and have been caught on stereotypical. And I had solely heard of 1 Latina showrunner who’d been allowed to run a present solo. Additionally for brown queers, there was actually no illustration.

That is the place the thank-yous start: Since you championed our delicate and darling little sequence, we have been gifted three superbly compelling, trailblazing seasons of tv. Sincerely, for this reason I needed to personally write this letter, to precise that your assist has meant every little thing. It has meant two renewals and validation that our brown narrative is value telling. I’ll by no means have the ability to thanks sufficient in your reception and endorsement. Actually.

This goodbye is just too bittersweet for phrases. I’d be mendacity if I mentioned I’m not unhappy about not getting again into that magical writers room to maintain crafting our story. However in any case, I obtained to inform the precise story I needed to inform, precisely how I needed to inform it, and that’s uncommon on this business. I depart steeped in gratitude. Grateful to Starz for not simply permitting VIDA to occur, however for being nice co-parents as we raised her collectively. And grateful for the collaborators whose careers we have been capable of launch: Latinx cinematographers, writers, actors — nearly fully feminine — who at the moment are on the market and in demand. What an attractive household we constructed. And what an attractive present.

Mil gracias. I do hope you’re capable of give this, our final season, a very good ship off, as a result of let me let you know, it’s a highly effective one. It’s simply as compelling as ever with some imagery and themes I’ve by no means seen on tv earlier than. I’m profoundly happy with it.

Servidora,

Tanya Saracho

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