Vida’s Season Two Trailer Is Here, Queerer Than Ever

I can’t believe it’s been a full year since I first fell in love with Vida. When it premiered on Starz last May, I told you it was “super sexy and unapologetic in its queerness.” It delivered on every level! Written by an entirely Latinx (and majorly queer) writers’ room, and brought to us by a queer Latina showrunner, everything about Vida was built with queer women and non-binary folks, especially Latinxs and Chicanxs, in mind.

Not only did the first season provide without a doubt the hottest and most important lesbian sex scene on television by mile, it also took time to thoughtfully explore the complications of internalized homophobia, racism, gentrification in Chicanx communities, and the scars that are left behind by our family. Here’s a quick refresher: Emma Hernandez (Michel Prada) – the queer protagonist at the heart of the show – and her sister Lyn (Melissa Barrera) returned home to their Boyle Heights, East Los Angeles neighborhood following the death of their mother. Things got immediately more complicated when the two sisters met Eddy, their mother’s handsome, shy, butch lesbian “roommate” who they find out at the funeral was actually her wife.

Vida’s story is delicious and complicated, sultry and heart-wrenching – and dammit, I want more! In the second season, we’ll follow Emma and Lyn as they continue learning how to trust each other and begin the enormous task of rebuilding their mother’s bar. They aren’t finished being haunted by the lessons of her legacy quite yet. Completing their family will once again be Eddy (non-binary queer actor Ser Anzoategui), who broke my heart wide open in Season One.

Without any doubt, Vida puts forth some of the best acting and writing in queer television. It raises the bar. This year, they’re adding queer actor and Autostraddle heartthrob Roberta Colindrez (Broadway’s Fun Home, I Love Dick, The Deuce) to the mix as Nico, a new bartender who promises to have a “will-they-won’t-they thing going on” with Emma. It seems that Vida won’t be letting go of its gold standard anytime soon.

Seriously, I cannot wait. Now we don’t have to hold our breath another second longer – thanks to this look at the Vida’s second season trailer given to us by Starz (I’ve already watched it a dozen times. Yeah, it’s that good):

Vida Season two premieres May 26th, but you can watch the first three episodes FOR FREE on Starz dot com right now! Season two will air weekly on Starz at 8pm. All ten episodes of the second season will be available on the Starz app and streaming platforms beginning May 23.

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Carmen Phillips

Carmen Phillips is Autostraddle's former editor in chief. She began at Autostraddle in 2017 as a freelance team writer and worked her way up through the company, eventually becoming the EIC from 2021-2024. A Black Puerto Rican feminist writer with a PhD in American Studies from New York University, Carmen specializes in writing about Blackness, race, queerness, politics, culture, and the many ways we find community and connection with each other.  During her time at Autostraddle, Carmen focused on pop culture, TV and film reviews, criticism, interviews, and news analysis. She claims many past homes, but left the largest parts of her heart in Detroit, Brooklyn, and Buffalo, NY. And there were several years in her early 20s when she earnestly slept with a copy of James Baldwin’s “Fire Next Time” under her pillow. To reach out, you can find Carmen on Twitter, Instagram, or her website.

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11 Comments

  2. Carmen, I’m saving this trailer as an reward! Please, please, please, tell us that you will be doing recaps again. Your writing on the first season added so much to my understanding and enjoyment of the show. And I hope I got this right: ¡Larga vida la Vida!

  6. I was just thinking this week if we were getting any news for Season 2 and I was still really shocked when I saw there was a trailer!

    Also, trailer is not accessible for me(Germany) so its probably NA restricted sadly. I did quickly find it on Youtube though and at the end of the trailer its says “BINGE THE NEW SEASON 5/23” so now I need clarification about whether they will release it every week or all at once or both, I am so confused.

  10. FYI to the powers that be that I purchased the first season (finally) because of this post.

  11. FINALLY!!!!! I was dying waiting for the premiere date.

    I only want to add one thing to the list of why Vida is the greatest TV show around right now: the soundtrack. The most amazing combination of music I’ve ever heard on a show.

    And I have one recomendation for Tanya Saracho and everybody else: Miss Bolivia, an Argentinean singer/songwriter, openly bisexual and feminist, that fuses cumbia, dancehall, hip hop, bass, funk, moombahton and house.

    A few examples:

    Se Quema:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNKn9KRXZJU

    Bien Warrior:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO7lbO6cYss

    It could be a bit difficult to understand the lyrics because you have a lot of argentinisms here, but I think everybody will get the spirit and essence of her music.

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