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For: EFE
“Gentefied“ , the acclaimed series from Netflix about a Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles (USA), will not have a third season.
The portal Deadline and Variety magazine assured this Thursday that Netflix decided to cancel “Gentefied” just two months after releasing its second season.
“Gentefied” premiered on 2020 and narrated the adventures and misadventures from a Latino family that owns a modest restaurant in Boyle Heights, an emblematic neighborhood that is considered the center of Chicano culture and activism in Los Angeles.
This series mixed comedy and drama to analyze the consequences of gentrification, the process by which the population of a neighborhood is displaced by person s of a superior economic level.
The actress America Ferrera, known for “Real Women Have Curves” (1200) or “Ugly Betty” (2006-2010), fought during years to get this project off the ground.
“When I read the scripts for ‘Gentefied’ I just laughed a lot, I cried, I felt a lot of love and warmth from a way that I had not seen in our community,” Ferrera told Efe in 2020 before the premiere of the series.
“It was obvious to me that I wanted to see this world come true and that I wanted to be part of it in any way I could”, he added.
Ferrera appeared as executive producer of this series created by Chicanos Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez and whose Hispanic cast almost entirely included actors like Joaquín Cosío, Karrie Martin, JJ Soria and Carlos Santos.
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