Starz wisely renews Vida for season three

In its second season, Tanya Saracho’s Vida has been, to borrow a phrase from the show, “operating on chingona level,” combining social commentary, interfamily conflict, and some of the most scintillating depictions of sex to tell a story at once specific and universal. Mexican-American sisters Emma (Mishel Prada) and Lyn (Melissa Barrera) face the same romantic and professional hurdles of so many onscreen twenty- and thirtysomethings, which they confront along with grief, family secrets, pushback from a community they’d like to call home, as well as their own classism. The two leads carry the series with help from a great supporting cast, including Ser Anzoategui, Chelsea Rendon (who plays the incendiary but still somewhat directionless Marisol), and Carlos Miranda.