Vida
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Lyns financial irresponsibility has been well established at this point, as have her self-centered tendencies.
Things only get whiter from there.
Lyn follows him to a ridiculous house party in the Hills.
Right away, Lyn meets Aurora, seemingly the only other Latinx person in the room.
Both the writing and Melissa Barreras acting shine.
Or when a blabbering white girl says shes obsessed with her eyebrows and wants Frida brows.
In the end, they both take the same bus home.
Cruz convinces Emma to stick around, and things devolve into a wild night.
Mishel Prada is particularly skilled at acting drunk, which is no easy feat.
Her little smile to herself in the bathroom mirror says so much.
And then she goes from a giddy kind of drunkenness to a sad, angry kind very quickly.
Emma didnt choose to leave; her mother sent her away.
The first time, she sent her away after finding her kissing a girl when they were little.
The sense of entitlement, of feeling better than her hometown isnt totally genuine; its a mask.
Because deep down, how she really feels about her home is rejected.
But when she was older, there was no ambiguity.
This sheds even more light on the complicated feelings Emma has had about her mothers death and toward Eddy.
But it also adds more context to her dynamic with Cruz.
Theres an attraction there, but theres also a sadness.
Emma clearly associates Cruz with the reason her mom sent her away.
Its another instance ofVidatackling a complex issue with nuance and depth.
