EPISODE
SEASON
One Day At A Time - Season 1
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.
June 4, 1985 in Los Angeles County, California, USA
15 April 1974, Miami, Florida, USA
6 September 1972, Northridge, California, USA
29 October 1962, Denver, Colorado, USA
1 July 1956, Cleveland, Ohio, 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
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 06, 2017
The real-world issues give it weight, while the warmth of the family gives it heart.
February 01, 2017
A bracing reminder of what the sitcom format can do.
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.
January 05, 2017
Not perfect, but pretty darned good, and Moreno and Machado are a formidable comedy team indeed.
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
What's here is sincere in its intentions, honest to its characters, and clever on every level.
