One of the best new shows of 2017

One Day at a Time changes plenty about its source material, a Norman Lear sitcom that lasted from the 70’s to the 80’s. This time, the family is Cuban, the matriarch is a veteran and her reasons for her being a single mother are profoundly unsettling. But this series brings along Lear’s affinity for delving into social issues, which all three of the aforementioned shifts do with aplomb. And, in what will be the greatest deterrent to many, this is still a multi-camera sitcom with a laugh-track and limited sets. That could lead to baggage, but for being a revival series in an old-school genre, One Day is deft and largely free of nostalgic ticks. So we should ultimately be thankful that it sits alongside Fuller House on the Netflix home page: this is the antidote to that nauseating sleeping pill of a show: http://www.cutprintfilm.com/tv/young-pope-and-one-day-at-a-time/