This story about Justina Machado first appeared in the Comedy/Drama/Actors issue of TheWrap’s Emmy magazine.
The second season of Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” goes out with a big swing. With Lydia, the family matriarch played with effortless panache by Rita Moreno, hospitalized in a coma, each member of her family takes a turn sitting at her bedside, revealing just how much she means to them in long, theater-style monologues.
The episode brings out the best in the show’s cast, evoking a stunning depth of emotion from even the younger actors on the show. But it’s Justina Machado’s fearless tour-de-force performance as Lydia’s daughter, Penelope, that will stick with viewers long after the episode ends.
Machado carries the scene for nearly six minutes, bouncing from anger to frustration to despair as she boils down a lifetime’s worth of love and resentment into a single speech.
The second season of Netflix’s “One Day at a Time” goes out with a big swing. With Lydia, the family matriarch played with effortless panache by Rita Moreno, hospitalized in a coma, each member of her family takes a turn sitting at her bedside, revealing just how much she means to them in long, theater-style monologues.
The episode brings out the best in the show’s cast, evoking a stunning depth of emotion from even the younger actors on the show. But it’s Justina Machado’s fearless tour-de-force performance as Lydia’s daughter, Penelope, that will stick with viewers long after the episode ends.
Machado carries the scene for nearly six minutes, bouncing from anger to frustration to despair as she boils down a lifetime’s worth of love and resentment into a single speech.
- 6/20/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
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