“Gordita Chronicles” is family comedy of a classic sort— with a few significant differences — funny and appealing and sometimes moving.
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Olivia Goncalves plays 12-year-old “Cucu” Castelli, the eponymous “Gordita,” translated here as “little chubby” and considered a term of endearment back home in the Dominican Republic. Cucu’s family of four moves to Miami when father Victor is hired as a marketing executive at an airline looking to expand its Latin American market. Mother Adela looks forward to a new life and a house with a pool; fashionably thin older sister Emilia is happy to be going to a school not run by nuns.
Victor has failed to measure his salary to include American withholding tax , so instead of a dream house with a lawn and a pool, the family lands — to the series’ benefit if not the Castellis’ — in a lively Latino apartment complex in working-class Hialeah. And we’re off.Olivia Goncalves, left, Savannah Nicole Ruiz, Juan Javier Cardenas and Diana Maria Riva play a Dominican family transplanted to 1980s Miami in “Gordita Chronicles.
Although a goodly amount of comedy is mined from the strangeness of American ways , “Gordita” is not exactly a fish-out-of-water comedy, since the Castellis live in a community of peers, or near peers. The population at the girls’ school is mixed; the popular Bubble Gum Girls, who adopt Emilia , are Latina.
Prejudice, though acknowledged — Victor is mistaken for a drug dealer, because he’s a well-dressed Latino with a pager — is clueless rather than vicious, and mined for laughs: Anglos mispronouncing Spanish words or Victor’s boss saying, “I had a margarita yesterday, and I thought of you.” When Cucu gets lectured for speaking Spanish in class — Dade County, we are informed, passed a law that only English could be spoken in public buildings — it is the apex of the series’ political engagement.
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