On OneDayAtATime, Rita Moreno leans hard into her emotions when a scene calls for it. But she also projects the sense that she is in absolute control of what she is doing at all times. chaneyj writes
Rita Moreno. Photo-Illustration: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photos by Netflix One Day at a Time is a traditional sitcom with a traditional sitcom’s sensibility. Its jokes are often broad, and its more dramatic moments very clearly aim to move you. It’s a show that is not ashamed to wear its heart on its sleeve.
It’s especially hard to play someone like Lydia, with her thick-as-a-chunky-Cuban-cigar accent, propensity to bust a salsa move, and unabashed vivacity, without reducing her to a caricature or using every opportunity to dominate a scene at the expense of everyone else in it. Moreno not only resists those urges, she doesn’t seem to have them in the first place. She keeps Lydia fully grounded and recognizably human.
Then Lydia gets really emotional. “She was who she was,” she says of Maria Luisa, “until the day she died.” Her eyes become glassy. Her chin trembles. Her voice catches on “was,” as if she’s about to cry. Lydia is talking about the grandmother she loved and still misses. But Moreno knows that Lydia is also talking about losing her own identity.
Take the way she pointedly slashes her throat when Alex comes in with packages of teeth-whitening trays that Lydia clearly ordered for Penelope; the way she shoves the accusation, “You use a Trader Joe’s bag as a purse,” in Penelope’s face; or how innocently — then not-so-innocently — she pirouettes though a line about how, as a wife and mother, she did “her best work on her knees” before clarifying, “I kept that floor very clean. I had to. Your father and I made love on it all the time.
Shortly after, Lydia’s same fears about death and loss resurface. She expresses sadness over the fact that Alex is getting older. “Soon,” she tells him, “you will not want to spend time with me.” “Yes, I will,” Alex insists. “Yeah?” Lydia says with a smile. She’s pleased, but her tone says, “That’s nice, but you’re young and you don’t know what you’re talking about.
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