The Party of Five pilot can be seen on Hulu as part of a special advance presentation. It officially debuts Wednesday, January 8 on Freeform.
The new Party of Five -- based on the bones of the classic '90s Fox series that made stars of Scott Wolf, Matthew Fox, Neve Campbell, and Jennifer Love Hewitt -- is a solid revival that plays to the strengths of the old show while adding extra layers of topical tragedy.
The Salinger family is now the Acosta family, a Mexican-American clan turned-upside down by the loss of their parents. Not to a car accident like we saw decades ago, but to cruel and callous deportation.
Restaurant owners Javier and Gloria Acosta, played by Bruno Bichir and Fernanda Urrejola, are taken out of the picture in a way that not only shines a spotlight on the inhumanity of ICE, but also seasons the drama by making the story exponentially sadder. Yes, the death of one's parents can obviously have an obliterating effect, but from a narrative standpoint, it's much worse to have the parents still in the picture but forced to leave. Over the course of weeks, locked in a detention center, trying to plead their case, Javier and Gloria are ripped from their kids (one of whom is an infant) and we, as viewers, witness both sides mourning and feeling a tremendous amount of guilt.
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