“I want to talk to you about the female orgasm,” teenage Elena Alvarez (Isabella Gomez) says in the trailer for “One Day at a Time’s” fourth season. She’s speaking to her grandmother, Lydia (Rita Moreno).
It’s no wonder Elena’s brother, Alex (Marcel Ruiz), suggests his “family needs boundaries.” “Boundaries are for white people,” Penelope (Justina Machado), Alex and Elena’s mother, responds. “Next thing you know, we’re eating Lunchables in separate rooms and Grandmama lives in a home.”
The intense closeness of the Alvarez family — the good and bad of it — seems to be the focus of “One Day at a Time” Season 4, its first at new home Pop TV. Lydia takes it upon herself to set up a Tinder profile for Penelope — “Lonely Catholic nurse seeks big, strong man to fill the hole in her life?!” Penelope also confesses to her support group that Alex walked in on her masturbating.
Created by Gloria Calderón Kellett and Mike Royce, “One Day at a Time” is a contemporary update of Norman Lear’s ’70s comedy. It ran for three seasons on Netflix before being cancelled, and was then saved by Pop.
Season 4 premieres March 24 on Pop TV, and will be simulcast on TV Land and Logo. Machado is helming an episode this season, marking her directorial debut.
