‘Gordita Chronicles’: Premiere Date & Trailer For HBO Max Comedy Set In 1980s Miami
deadline.com“Everybody here looks like Madonna,” the startled Dominican girl says upon first glance at her new American high school. “Even the boys.”Here is the first trailer for Gordita Chronicles, a coming-of-age series is about family, opportunity, love, resilience and boldly defying the status quo in pursuit of the “American Dream,” which HBO Max will premiere on Thursday, June 23.
Have a look above.Here’s the logline for the series from Sony Pictures Television who exec producers include Eva Longoria and Zoe Saldana: The year is 1985 and Cucu “Gordita” Castelli (Olivia Goncalves) has just said goodbye to all of her friends and family in Santo Domingo.
She has moved to Miami with her marketing-executive father Víctor (Juan Javier Cardenas), bold and vivacious mother Adela (Diana Maria Riva) and status-obsessed older sister Emilia (Savannah Nicole Ruiz).
While life in America is far from what they imagined — “The song said ‘America the Beautiful,” Cucu says, “I think they oversold it” — the Castellis are determined to take charge of their strange new world.
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