Nickelodeon's "The Brothers Garcia" Have Grown Up Into HBO Max's "The Garcias" with Families of Their Own."

 By Laura Medina

Nickedodeon's "The Brothers Garcia" one of the first English-speaking Hispanic cast and sitcom specifically aimed at English-speaking Latin audience in the early 2000's, is returning April 14th on HBO Max, with Hispanic and blended ethnicity Millennial families of their own, as the multi-generational "The Garcias," The Garcias | HBO Max Originals

The teen and tween children of "The Brothers Garcia," has grown into Millennial family men and women, heading their own families, running their own app companies and searching for more app ideas and opportunities as they struggle to hold onto their Hispanic heritage as All-Americans as they and America develop and evolve together into what it means to be Latin and American as they blend traditions and culture with their own blended families.

As George Garcia (Bobby Gonzalez) questions if he's "Mexican" enough as a Mexican-American, his younger brother, Carlos Garcia (Jeffrey Licon) is trying to forge new ways of family traditions with his Korean-American wife, Yunjin Huh Garcia (Elsha Kim) and their Mexican-Korean American children as his mom, Sonia Garcia (Ada Maris) is struggling to adapt her traditional Mexican Catholic traditions to her daughter-in-law's spiritualism as these two ladies fight in how to raise the two Mexican-Korean/Hispanic-Asian American daughters.  This is the absolute reflection of America now, a blending of the two most prominent and rising demographics in America, Hispanic-Americans and Asian-Americans growing and blending together, that is uniquely and realistically All-American.

All this happens during a summer family vacation in a spacious vacation house in the Mexican Riviera, while the only Garcia girl, Lorena Garcia (Vaneza Pitynski) is a busy and racially and sexually harassed local tv weather reporter, who's forced to send her son away to his brothers' families and cousins in order for him to have a vacation.  While Carlos discovered new business opportunities with the snotty All-Mexican preppies next door, big brother George is slighted by the Mexican preppies and his Mexican wife, as a Mexican-"American," George feels he's not "Mexican" enough.  This existential identity crisis is a wide-ranging and wide-spreading identity-crisis that the majority of first-generations are experiencing right now.

"The Garcias" tackled these deep issues with humor.

Wait until the last and final biting tenth episode, "George's Nightmare," where George grasping and wrestling with cultural and ethnic-identity questioning accumulated into a nightmare seriously tackling derogatory Mexican stereotypes.  His nightmare about what it means to Hispanic, mocks these insulting stereotypes.  But according to the creator and producer and director, Jeff Valdez, these derogatory stereotypes are still so sharp. that it hurt one of the actors that made her cry during rehearsals and during breaks.  However, this harmful issue still needs to be tackled, so people anywhere on the Hispanic/Latin spectrum, can be reassured that they're not alone in identity-tackling while breaking then progressing beyond stereotypes that been holding all sorts of people back.

HBO Max's "The Garcias" is an All-American show.