HBO Max just released the official trailer for Gordita Chronicles, a coming-of-age comedy set in the ’80s and featuring a family of immigrants who settle in Miami. Eva Longoria (Grand Hotel) directed the series’ pilot and is involved as an executive producer along with Zoe Saldana (soon to be seen in Avatar: The Way of Water), Mariel Saldana, and Cisely Saldana.
HBO Max has set a June 23, 2022 launch of the entire 10-episode first season.
The cast includes Olivia Goncalves, Diana Maria Riva, Juan Javier Cardenas, Savannah Nicole Ruiz, Noah Rico, Cosette Hauer, and Dascha Polanco. Patrick Fabian and Loni Love guest star.
Brigitte Munoz-Liebowitz guides the series as showrunner and executive produces along with the pilot’s writer Claudia Forestieri. Additional executive producers include Josh Berman, Jennifer Robinson, and Chris King.
HBO Max provided the following synopsis:
“The year is 1985 and Cucu ‘Gordita’ Castelli (Goncalves) has just said goodbye to all of her friends and family in Santo Domingo and moved to Miami with her marketing executive father Víctor (JCardenas), bold and vivacious mother Adela (Riva), and status-obsessed older sister Emilia (Ruiz). While life in America is far from what they imagined, the Castellis are determined to take charge of their strange new world.
A uniquely funny coming-of-age series, Gordita Chronicles is about family, opportunity, love, resilience, and boldly defying the status quo in pursuit of the ‘American Dream.'”
