{"id":40190,"date":"2023-06-26T09:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T13:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=40190"},"modified":"2023-06-26T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T16:01:31","slug":"primo-has-potential-to-be-a-family-sitcom-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/26\/primo-has-potential-to-be-a-family-sitcom-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPrimo\u201d Has Potential to be a Family Sitcom Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“We’re gonna fill this house with joy or I swear to God I will slit all of your throats.”<\/em> – Drea<\/p>\n

Shea Serrano\u2019s \u201cPrimo\u201d is probably one of the better TV shows I\u2019ve seen all year, and in a period where we\u2019re flooded with new series, \u201cPrimo\u201d stands out. Serrano\u2019s series is a classic single camera family sitcom in the tradition of shows like \u201cModern Family\u201d and \u201cBlackish,\u201d except \u201cPrimo\u201d revolves around a contemporary Mexican family. This family in particular is unusual but tight knit, and often times they manage to be their own worst enemy, more than their best ally. But that\u2019s all apart of what makes \u201cPrimo\u201d such a great , funny series. And at eight episodes clocking in at a half hour each, it\u2019s also a very easy watch.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPrimo\u201d is set in San Antonio and follows Rafa, a sixteen year old boy who is navigating his life. Things get complicated when a new girl named Mya moves in to town, and he\u2019s now dead set on getting her attention. Rafa lives with his mother, the overprotective but well meaning Drea, a single mom who has a tight grasp on her home life. The aspect that makes Rafa\u2019s life so chaotic is that he has five uncles, all of whom garner their own peculiar personalities and approaches toward life. While Rafa and Drea are the heart of \u201cPrimo,\u201d Rafa\u2019s five uncles are the soul. The casting is absolutely excellent from top to bottom with Ignacio Diaz-Silverio doing a great job as the reluctant hero.<\/p>\n

He takes a lot of his influences and advice from his uncles, all of whom have something to offer, but it doesn\u2019t always turn out too well, sadly. Christina Vidal is a stand out as Drea, a wonderful moral center of the entire family who spends a lot of her time chasing after her brothers, and doing everything she can to guide Rafa on the right path. My favorite aspects of the show, though, are the collective performances of Carlos Santos, Henri Esteve, Johnny Rey Diaz, Efra\u00edn Villa, and Jonathan Medina, respectively. Not only do they manage to really help maintain the show\u2019s emotional core, but they are often laugh out loud funny.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>They seriously manage to garner a ton of laughs throughout the show\u2019s first season, and thankfully the writers are able to balance out so many sub-plots in such a short time. Rafa\u2019s uncles are not only funny, but they\u2019re well fleshed out, and have excellent chemistry with the central stars and\u00a0each other. Even though they\u2019re so vastly different from one another, you immediately buy that they are brothers. It\u2019s tough to pick out my favorite of the uncles, as they all represent an aspect of manhood that Rafa is trying to learn from and obtain. Whether it\u2019s Mondo\u2019s spirituality, or Mike\u2019s adherence to authority, they all signify the importance of the male role model and fill in as Rafa\u2019s surrogate fathers.<\/p>\n

The show is serialized, but with the only season arcs belonging to Rafa and Drea. Rafa is trying to win the affections of Mya, while Drea introduces an element in to the group dynamic in the season finale that might completely alter the way Rafa interacts with his uncles in season two.<\/p>\n

In either case, \u201cPrimo\u201d is just grade A family television. I hope Amazon gives it a chance to flourish and grow with a second season. Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

Now Streaming Exclusively on Amazon Freevee.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We’re gonna fill this house with joy or I swear to God I will slit all of your throats.” – Drea Shea Serrano\u2019s \u201cPrimo\u201d is probably one of the better TV shows I\u2019ve seen all year, and in a period where we\u2019re flooded with new series, \u201cPrimo\u201d stands out. Serrano\u2019s series is a classic single […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[219,340,947],"class_list":["post-40190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-tomb","tag-comedy","tag-family","tag-sitcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40195,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40190\/revisions\/40195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}