'Gentefied' Review: A Fresh L.A. Story

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In the warm new Netflix comedy ‘Gentefied,’ a Mexican-American family battles the forces of gentrification in L.A. Alan Sepinwall’s review

The show sets out to confound expectations at every turn, starting with the opening scene, in which Erik rides his bicycle through the neighborhood, looking tough — until we see that he’s on the way to return a library book and inquire about whether his local branch has gotten a copy ofpoints out early and often that Erik and cousins Chris and Ana are as extremely online as your average twentysomething of any background.

Yet all are aware of the ways that life is stacked against them; as Ana’s girlfriend Yessika argues, white people “may love all our shit, but they don’t love us.” Like a lot of modern half-hours, it’s more a comedy in theory than practice, though the third episode — where Chris offers to take a “Mexican test” to get the other kitchen workers to stop teasing him — is quite funny. But the creative team and the actors make the neighborhood and its residents feel so vivid and inviting thatevolves into that rare creature: the serialized hangout show.

 

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