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Vida is a Dramatic Half-Hour series created by Tanya Saracho for Starz. It premiered on May 6th, 2018.

The series follows two sisters, Emma (played by Mishel Prada) and Lyn Hernandez (played by Melissa Barrera), as they return to their hometown in East Los Angeles in a primarily Mexican-American community. The sisters must come together after a long absence in the wake of their mother's death, whereupon they learn that she was secretly married to another woman. From there, they must confront their own issues while Emma tries to sell her mother's bar, even though her widow, Eddy, won't allow it. A sideplot involves a local girl named Marisol who is fighting gentrification in their town.

On March 18th 2020, Saracho announced that the third season would also be the show's final season.

No relation to the video game of the same name.

This series provides examples of:

• Activist-Fundamentalist Antics: Los Vigilantes, the activist group Marisol gets involved with, are to oppose the gentrification of their neighborhood, with noisy protests (sometimes violent), graffiti and harassing or insulting Latinos in the area who don't go along with their goals, whom they call "coconuts". The group's aggressive and alienating tactics do them no favors, even with people who might have otherwise been on their side.
• Age-Gap Romance: Vidalia was at least twenty years older than her wife Eddy.
• And the Adventure Continues: The series ends as Lyn and Emma are agreed on keeping the bar running, though its fate is uncertain as their father is trying to take it away from them. Lyn and Emma's relationships with their love interests are also up in the air.
• As the Good Book Says...: Victor is a pastor and quotes the Bible twice while he's talking with Lyn.
• Attention Whore: Lyn is the kind of girl who actively goes looking for drama yet complains that drama always finds her no matter where she goes. Case in point, Lyn was delighted when Johnny's fiancee finds out she was sleeping with him and goes to confront her.
• Berserk Button: Eddy will not tolerate anyone speaking ill of Vidalia, even her (Vida's) own daughters.
• Big Beautiful Woman:
  • Sam is a voluptuous and attractive lesbian whom Emma has sex with. During it, her large breasts along with her other curves are highlighted, while unusually being a Butch Lesbian.
  • Marisol too has large breasts, while being curvy in general. She's pretty as well, and Tlaloc is attracted to her.
• Big Eater: The way Emma practically shoves her carne asada into her mouth in the first episode would make one think that she hasn't eaten in ages. Lyn's accompanying shocked expression says it all.
• Bittersweet Ending: Season One ends with Eddy in a coma after being beaten unconscious by a thuggish bar patron, but it's implied that Emma and Lyn will go into business to keep the bar running without having to sell it. The final shot is of what appears to be Vidalia's spirit holding Eddy's hand.
• Bookends: The first episode opens with Marisol, confidently showcasing her activism. The final episode of the season closes on Marisol, now disillusioned with her life, wondering what to do next.
• Boyish Short Hair: The butch lesbians all have this, ranging from fairly voluminous curls (Nico) to a buzzcut (Alex). Some who Emma speaks to when she meets Nico first even discuss using this style to signal their lesbianism.
• Butch Lesbian:
  • Eddy is quite butch in her appearance, having short hair and very masculine clothing. It's also revealed she binds her breasts.
  • In the second season, a bunch of others are shown. They even discuss the idea of advertising that they're lesbians by masculine clothing and hairstyles. Nico is one of them, who Emma then gets involved with.
  • Sam and Alex, a lesbian couple who Emma has sex with, are both butch too, especially the latter given her buzzcut along with many different tattoos. They may be among the only portrayals of two butch lesbians being a couple in popular media.
• But Not Too Black: Prejudice against darker-skinned Latinos is discussed as being common in the community.
  • Nelson, the sleazy developer, told someone right to her face he wasn't interested after she turned out darker than in her online photo. Marcos and Lyn decide to use this by setting up a fake profile on a dating site of a very white girl, then catfish him. He tells Lyn (thinking she's the girl) he's not into Latinas due to preferring "pink nipples".
  • Marcos mentions he has an aunt who insulted her own nieces and nephews that had darker skin by using a slur for this too. He notes that Lyn and Emma being lighter also made their lives easier.
  • After Emma fires Lisa after Nico reports her for stealing from the cash register, she claims that Emma only listened to her because she's "light skinned and bougie".
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Lyn got breast implants as a boyfriend of hers in the past thought larger ones were more attractive and pushed her to.
• Calling Parents by Their Name: Emma never calls her parents anything but their given names, because she is/was estranged from them both.
• Casting Gag: Eddy is asked if she's non-binary in one episode. She's confused and says "No". The actor portraying her, Ser Anzoategui, is non-binary.
• Category Traitor: Emma and Lyn are accused of not being "real" Latinas frequently, using such slurs as "coconut" or "White-ina", because they left the neighborhood, then came back to do some stuff differently with their mom's bar. Nelson is also accused of this, though with far more justification in his case, as he's gentrifying at the cost of the residents plus shows contempt for most Latinas. Marisol also calls a Latino ICE agent one as well, again with more justification as he's rounding up fellow Latinos.
• Disowned Parent: Lyn disowns her dad over how he acted when Emma told him that she's queer.
• Domestic Abuse:
  • Emma and Lyn's father, Victor, used to beat up their mother, Vidalia. Lyn insists he's changed, while Emma is reluctant to accept this. It's revealed that he had beaten Vida within an inch of her life when she tried to defend teenage Emma after he had found her exploring her sexuality.
  • Zoe attacks Nico after the two break up.
• Double-Meaning Title: "Vida" means "life" in Spanish, though it may also refer to the sisters' mother, Vida, which is short for Vidalia.
• Ethnic Menial Labor: Lyn goes to a party once with young white people, but can be seen uncomfortably noting how the only other Latino there is Aurora, the maid, who they treat as a living cleaner.
• Fanservice Extra: A number of minor/background characters appear either nude to varying degrees or having sex in the series.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling:
  • Lyn is the foolish sibling, and Emma is the responsible sibling. Lyn causes trouble wherever she goes, such as starting an affair with Johnny and going on a thousand dollar shopping spree just to cheer herself up. Emma, on the other hand, is hard-nosed and prudent to a fault, driving everyone nuts with her high expectations.
  • Johnny is the foolish sibling, and Marisol is the responsible sibling. Johnny has an affair with Lyn, cheating on his pregnant fiancée. He also forgets to take his father to his doctor appointments with fatal consequences. Contrastingly, Marisol works multiple jobs to sustain herself and her father. She also nurses her father and takes him to his appointments when she is not working.
• Forced Out of the Closet: Emma was caught making out with another girl her age at 11. After this, she was sent to her relatives in Texas.
• The Generation Gap: Eddy is confused by younger LGBT people, as they embrace "queer" as a self-descriptor (it was a dire insult to her generation) while not understanding the idea of non-binary, which has become a common identity in theirs. They in turn view her as an out of touch "elder".
• Glad I Thought of It: For Eddy’s fundraiser, Lyn comes up with an idea where people pay to hit a Trump piñata. One of Eddy’s friends tells Lyn that might not be a good idea since Eddy got in the hospital by getting beat up. During the party, someone finds the piñata and lets people pay to hit it, annoying Lyn.
• Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted. Emma gets abortion pills immediately after discovering she's pregnant, which is treated matter of factly by her and Lyn (the only other person who knows). In fact Lyn mentions she'd once used the same means to have an abortion herself before.
• Granola Girl: Lyn, to the point that Eddy tries to accommodate her diet with vegan options. Even so, she breaks down by eating flan in Episode Two.
• Groin Attack: Emma throws hot coffee onto Nelson's groin.
• Hairy Girl: Sam, Alex and Eddy all have unshaved pubic mounds. Further, Eddy and Nico also have unshaved underarms. This fits with their unconventional, masculine styles as butch lesbians.
• Hate Sink: Nelson is a complete slime ball without redeeming features who preys on fellow Latinos.
• Heel–Faith Turn: Victor says he was once bad, but changed his ways after getting religious.
• Hereditary Homosexuality: After their mom's dead, Emma and Lyn discovered she had been married to another woman. It soon turns out that Emma's also attracted to women.
• Heritage Disconnect: Estranged sisters Emma and Lyn are both Mexican-American. Lyn is later mocked for not knowing Spanish fluently, while Emma made a point of learning it to grow fluent, since their family spoke only "Spanglish" before.
• Heteronormative Crusader:
  • Eddy says a lot of people stopped coming to the bar over her and Vidalia opening up about their relationship, including marrying.
  • Victor is a conservative Christian minister who strongly opposes homosexuality. He's unsurprisingly displeased to learn that Emma and Lyn's bar hosts LGBT events and tries to take it from them legally so they'll stop. When Emma tells him she's queer, his congregation prays for her loudly, and she leaves in disgust. Because of this, Lyn, who'd wanted to forge a relationship with him, turns her back on Victor.
• Home Porn Movie: Marisol gives Tlaloc a blow job, and unbeknownst to her he films it on his phone.
• Hypocrite:
  • The main reason Emma was estranged from her mother was because she freaked out upon finding out that Emma is queer, and it only angers Emma more to find out Vidalia was married to a woman herself. She doesn't know at first that Vidalia did this to protect her.
  • Emma calls Mari out for being a “woke activist” who then slut-shames Lyn. That's not even getting into her racism in earlier episodes.
• The Illegal: Many people in the East LA community are undocumented. It's mentioned during the pilot that many people in the building Emma and Lyn inherit are, so it's sale would put them in danger. Emma and Lyn's father it turns out later was deported to Mexico for being in the US illegally as well. ICE raids the community to round up undocumented immigrants too.
• The Immodest Orgasm: Lyn gets very loud while having sex with Jonny on the stairs.
• Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: Marisol gives Tlaloc oral sex, then a video he took of this gets shared around, humiliating her.
• Interchangeable Asian Cultures: Before Emma and Lyn's arrival, Vida's bar was named "La Chinita", with a geisha as its logo. Emma notes that's Japanese, not Chinese ("La Chinita" is "little Chinese girl" in Spanish), saying it was racist to conflate them so ignorantly.
• Internalized Categorism:
  • Vidalia had kicked out Emma twice over her attraction to women. However, once it's been revealed Vidalia herself liked women (even later marrying one) Emma angrily concludes this about her. It turns out she's wrong. Vidalia did it to protect her.
  • The sisters are accused of being self-hating by other Latino people who dislike them changing the bar as well.
• Internal Reveal: Eddy in 3x3 learns Emma's queer long after the audience has.
• Intimate Marks:
  • Alex, one of the lesbians who Emma gets a threeway with, has many tattoos on her torso just beside or above (though not on) her breasts, plus over her ass, as the audience gets shown in great detail afterward.
  • Lyn has a tattoo on her right hip near her buttocks.
• Jerkass:
  • Not to the point of being malicious—maybe—but Lyn's seducing of an old flame of hers, knowing he had a fiancee who was pregnant with his kid, as well as going on shopping sprees using her dead mother's credit cards don't point towards good character on her part. A saint she is not.
  • Marisol falls into this as well. Fighting against gentrification may or may not be a worthy cause depending on one's point of view but Mari gets pretty racist about it, to the point where she considers Emma and Lyn a pair of race traitors and "White-inas" for leaving their neighborhood.
  • Yoli, a member of Los Vigilantes, douses the supposedly "whitewashed" Lyn in laundry detergent to emphasize how out of touch she and Emma are with the dangers of gentrification.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Emma's more of an ice queen than a true jerkass but she does have a legitimate (and pretty heartbreaking) reason to speak ill of her deceased mother. After being kicked out—twice—by Vidalia as she's queer (especially while Vidalia was working out her own "gay shame"), can you really blame her for being angry? It turns out that Vidalia did this to protect her; Emma didn't know however.
• Latino Is Brown: Nelson prefers dating White woman over Latinas as he likes fair skin. However, in reality Latina women have a variety of skin tones (not to mention that Latino is a culture, not a race, thus White vs. Latino isn't a binary option, however in the US they're often treated that way). Most of the Latino characters have olive skin or darker, with few exceptions.
• Lingerie Scene:
  • Emma in 2x1 walks around for a long time wearing only her bra and panties.
  • In 2x2 Marisol strips down to her bra when she and Tlaloc are making out before he gives her oral sex.
  • Emma in 2x9 strips down to her bra and panties before getting into bed.
• Lipstick Lesbian:
  • Emma (or rather lipstick bisexual, in Emma's case) who has a quite feminine style of dress. She sees multiple women plus a couple men in the series.
  • Possibly also Vida, assuming she was a lesbian and not bi, who always dressed in feminine ways from what we see. She was married to Butch Lesbian Eddy.
• Love Triangle: Lyn has an affair with Johnny even as he's engaged to Karla, with whom he's having a baby. It doesn't last very long as he soon ends the affair.
• Luke, You Are My Father: Lyn meets up with her long-missing father at his church and reveals who she is to him (they hadn't seen each other since Lyn's childhood).
• Magic Realism: The series is realistic overall, though the mysterious little girl who's wearing a pink dress it turns out is the ghost of Vida Hernandez in her childhood. Also, the Santeria magic is implied to really work somewhat.
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places:
  • Johnny and Lyn have sex on the stairs behind a building (which can't be too comfortable). She later also has sex with him in his workplace.
  • Emma and Nico have sex in the bar's bathroom (they lock it at least).
  • Emma and Sam have sex up against a desk first then on the floor of Sam's apartment.
  • Marisol gives Tlaloc a blow job as he's sitting in a chair before her.
  • In 2x1 Lyn and a guy have sex on a couch, then standing up at the orgy, while other people nearby do it all over the place.
  • Emma has sex with Baco through riding him on the couch in her office during 2x4.
  • In 2x8 Johnny and Lyn have sex on the back of his truck.
  • Emma eats Nico out in 3x4 with the latter sitting on a chair.
  • Lyn in 3x6 gives Rudy a blowjob as he's sitting on a chair.
• Male Frontal Nudity:
  • Juniper is shown completely naked briefly with Lyn.
  • A guy at the orgy in 2x1 stands watching people have sex bottomless.
  • After he gets catfished by Lyn, Nelson sends her a pic of his erect cock. She leaks this to Los Vigilantes and they post copies of it across his business' wall along with the racist texts he sent.
• Masculine–Feminine Gay Couple:
  • Vidalia was feminine, while her wife Eddy is butch.
  • In the second season, feminine Emma gets involved with Nico, who's butch. Nico formerly was with feminine Zoe too.
• Masturbation Means Sexual Frustration: Emma tries to masturbate twice after her aborted hookup with Cruz so her libido can be sated. She can't due to people praying or singing loudly nearby.
• Mistaken for Toilet: At a party, Lyn drunkenly mistakes a sculpture for a toilet and urinates in it, causing the host to kick her out.
• The Modest Orgasm: Emma and Lyn usually quietly gasp while having sex with their partners.
• Monochrome Casting: Nearly all of the characters are Latino, except for a couple minor White ones. As it's set in a heavily Latino section of LA and focuses on their lives though, it makes sense.
• Mr. Fanservice: Johnny and Rudy are both handsome men who have numerous shirtless scenes while having sex with Lyn.
• Ms. Fanservice: Both sisters whenever they share intimate moments with their lovers. Lyn in particular has a nude or sex scene in at least half the episodes and wears a lot of revealing outfits that show off her body.
• My Girl Is Not a Slut:
  • Johnny and Marisol's father isn't concerned that Johnny is cheating on his pregnant fiancée with his ex-girlfriend. But when he finds out that Marisol had sex with Tlaloc, he kicks her out of the house.
  • Likewise, Lyn doesn't understand why she's the only one being vilified for Johnny's infidelity when he willingly had sex with her.
• Naughty by Night: Emma is publicly reserved, an Ice Queen starting out, neat and professional. Privately though she acts very straightforward sexually, and has no hangups about casual sex.
• New Parent Nomenclature Problem: Lyn and Emma always call Eddy by her name. They only call her their step-mother when Eddy is in the hospital, and they need the hospital staff to give them access to her room. It turns out she isn’t their step-mother because Eddy and Vida were never legally married.
• Next Thing They Knew:
  • In the pilot Lyn tearfully tells her old flame Johnny how she can't believe that her mom's dead and gone. The scene then changes to show him eating her out on the steps nearby.
  • Lyn and Johnny talk at the garage where he works, with him unhappy at having had sex with her before. In the next scene where they're shown together, he's having sex with her again.
• No Bisexuals:
  • Emma and Lyn assume their mother was a closeted lesbian for years while being married to their father, after they learn she had married a woman before her death. Neither considers that she might have been bisexual.
  • One of Cruz's friends believes Emma has to be a baby queer and confused about her orientation given that she doesn't use labels, while still liking men too. Emma is quite offended and says that isn't the case at all. Lyn says Emma may be bi later. Emma still does not use a label though, but she has sex with both women and men a couple times.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Even though they are not married, Rudy's mother is condescending and passive aggressive towards Lyn.
• Oppressive Immigration Enforcement: The show takes place in a majority Latino area of Los Angeles where a number of residents are undocumented. ICE is feared and hated as a result, while they are shown dragging a man away while his family watches distraught, with an agent saying due process doesn't apply to him (which, as Marisol points out, is bs).
• Outside/Inside Slur: Emma and Lyn are frequently referred to as "coconuts" or "White-inas" because they previously left their neighborhood, and later return to make major changes to their late mother's bar. Season 3 shows disgruntled residents painting actual coconuts over Emma and Lyn's painting on the community mural to further protest the changes they made to Vida's bar.
• Parental Abandonment:
  • Emma and Lyn’s mother's death is the Inciting Incident for the plot, while their father is absent in the beginning. It turns out he was deported to Mexico, but there's no indication of them being in contact with him at first. They thought he died, but he's still alive and is back in the US. Lyn reconnects to him, but Emma doesn't want to. It doesn't last long, since he expresses homophobia toward them hosting LGBT events in their bar, and about Emma being queer, so Lyn walks away from him.
  • Johnny and Marisol’s mother is deceased before the series starts, leaving them without parents when their father dies in Season 3.
• Parental Title Characterization: The Hernandez sisters' relationship with their late mother is clearly demonstrated by how they address her. Emma, who is still angry and hurt about being sent away for liking girls, only calls her by her full name, Vidalia. Lyn had a much warmer relationship with her and calls her "Mami".
• Polyamory: A couple who Emma hooks up with offer to have her be their third. She rejects the offer though, saying that never works in the end.
• Queer Establishing Moment:
  • Emma and Lyn learn their mother Vidalia (after she's died) was into women when it turns out that she'd been married to another woman, which neither knew about until then.
  • Emma not long after this reveals she's into women herself by hooking up with one, then reveals this to Lyn, who's surprised by the fact
• Queer Romance:
  • Emma and Lyn learn their mother Vidalia married another woman, Eddie, which is quite a revelation to them. Although Vidalia's dead from the beginning, this relationship has repercussions throughout the series.
  • Emma is revealed to be queer, hooking up with a woman quite early on. Her romances with Cruz and then Nico also form a large part of the plot.
• Questionable Consent: Emma gives Nico oral sex while she's high. Nico later feels guilty about this, saying that it was "rapey". Emma dismisses this though, saying she wanted it and would have done the same even if unimpaired (though Nico points out that the point is she wasn't).
• Race Fetish:
  • Nelson prefers "pink nipples", i.e. white women.
  • Lyn is quite frequently on the receiving end of this trope by white men who use her for "exotic Latina" sex only to end up dumping her.
• Reality Has No Subtitles: The show's producers purposely left out any English subtitles to translate the Spanish for this reason.
• Really Gets Around:
  • Lyn has casual sex pretty frequently, with the second season also revealing that she even regularly attends orgies (though this stops in the episode we see, as she's grown tired of it).
  • Emma does this too, but to a lesser degree, with her number of sexual partners in the show being more limited.
• Relationship Revolving Door: Lyn and Johnny break up, but by the end of the series it’s hinted the two may get back together. The same goes for Emma and Nico.
• The Reveal: Doña Lupe revealing that Vida sent Emma away, not because she had a problem with her daughter's sexuality, but to protect her from her father, who flew into a rage when he discovered young Emma kissing a girl.
• R-Rated Opening: 2x1 opens with Lyn and many other people having sex at an orgy, which is shown quite explicitly.
• Skewed Priorities. Los Vigilantes focus on gentrification, but they prioritize Lyn and Emma's bar instead of focusing on the real estate development across the street from them, which will gentrify their neighborhood. Emma and Lyn make an effort to hire Latinx people, including Latinx musical acts. Their bar is also a safe space for the LGBTQ community. Emma calls them out for ignoring a gentrifying real estate firm behind them while they protest against the bar.
• Slut-Shaming:
  • Marisol calls Lyn a little slut as a result of her affair with Johnny. Emma calls her on this immediately, saying someone who's claimed to be woke shouldn't act that way.
  • Marisol gets this after Tlaloc records her giving him oral sex and shares it without her knowing. She is the one blamed by her dad, who kicks her out of the house, though he was indifferent to her brother Johnny cheating on his (pregnant) fiancée.
• Soundtrack Dissonance: The end of Episode One shows Emma and Lyn crying for Vida as they watch an old videotape showing them as children dancing with their mother, all while the fun and bouncy Selena song "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" plays in the background.
• Stereotype Flip: The main characters defy the Spicy Latina stereotype.
  • Emma, of the poor, uneducated, and "loose" variety. She's a middle-class businesswoman who's the intellect of the cast. While she's shown taking multiple sex partners, they are mostly women, with only a couple men.
  • Lyn, of the dumb, sexually available type. While she is beautiful and very sexually active, she becomes disillusioned with this lifestyle. This is best shown when she takes a vow of celibacy, and takes over operations at the bar (even in Emma's absence), showing that she can be business-oriented when needs to be.
  • Eddy, of the hot, heterosexual Latina. She's a Butch Lesbian, and has larger body proportions.
  • Marisol, of the angry, progressive Chicana activist. While she does start out following this stereotype to a T, this mellows out in later episodes when she begins to question her own beliefs. She also follows along with the role of the traditional Mexican daughter for her father's sake.
• Take That!: The series aired during the first term of Donald Trump and it has multiple jabs by characters about him, such as mentioning his frequent tweeting.
• Their First Time:
  • Emma and Cruz have sex after lots of sexual tension between them. After they don't work out, Emma later flirts heavily with Nico until they hook up as well finally.
  • Marisol is a virgin before she gives Tlaloc a blowjob. He later reciprocates through eating her out.
• A Threesome Is Hot: Emma meets up with lesbian couple Sam and Alex in a club (after she'd previously hooked up before with Sam) and they have sex (offscreen).
• Tomboyish Name: Eddy (Eduina), Nico (Nicole) and Rocky (Roxana) are all lesbians who go by the masculine nicknames for themselves. In the first two cases, they're definitely butch, while Rocky's slightly less so. Butch Lesbian couple Sam and Alex also have them. It's not said if there's are nicknames as well however.
• Token White: Nearly all of the cast are Latin American, with only a few whites appearing on the show. Lyn's boyfriend in the first season and a local store owner (whose property Marisol vandalizes) are probably the only ones who ever appear in more than a couple scenes, have multiple lines or aren't in the background.
• Twofer Token Minority: In 2x1 it's discussed with Emma for her firm, where she views herself as being mostly there to serve their optics as the token Latina, though her boss denies it. Everyone else who we see from there are white men.
• Two-Person Pool Party: Nico and Emma in 3x2 start having sex while sharing a bath together.
• Vigilante Militia: Los Vigilantes are activists opposing gentrification in Boyle Heights, using tactics that range from angry but peaceful protest to illegal ones like vandalism, harassment and assault on people who they denounce for this. Their mindset is very black and white too, ignoring any explanations as to why their targets aren't worthy of this.
• Villainous Gentrification: The series' subplot involves the characters resisting the attempts to gentrify Boyle Heights, mainly because it could raise property prices to the point that most residents couldn't afford to live there, and can potentially erase the neighborhood's beloved Latin culture.
• Wake-Up Call: The Hernandez sisters occasionally get these to remind them that they cannot just shed their Mexican heritage whenever they want. Emma gets hers when a realtor (who's a white woman) calls the police on her and Marisol when the two get into a scuffle. Lyn gets hers when she rides on the bus with an older Latina maid, realizing that she's only seen as exotic arm candy for white men.
• Wall Bang Her:
  • Emma and Cruz start having sex up against a wall in their first hookup.
  • Later, Emma has sex with Nico partly up against the wall in the bar's bathroom.
  • Marcos is shown getting a blowjob at his birthday party up against a wall.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Eddy is appalled by Emma's coldness and Lyn's self-centeredness in regards to their mother's death.
• Where Everybody Knows Your Flame: Vida made the bar into a queer friendly one after marrying her wife Eddy, and Eddy's friends often hang out there as it's a safe place for them. Later, though not a full on example as it isn't aimed solely at them, Lyn and Emma (who's bisexual) start hosting LGBT+ events in their bar (largely queer Latinas along with AFAB Latinos) while also getting more as customers overall. Emma's girlfriends Cruz and Nico, along with lesbians whom they know, often hang out there with her.
• Workout Fanservice: Lyn jogs around in a revealing top and spandex pants during the first season, which gets her wolf whistles from men she passes who see this. Her outfit for yoga too is revealing, as you'd expect, and Emma comments on it. Lyn is quite pretty, and it shows her body off. This goes for her workouts generally, as Lyn is very committed to exercising.