HBO Max Removing ‘Gordita Chronicles’ from Its Platform – & the Internet Isn’t Having It - Remezcla

If unceremoniously canceling Latine TV bid wasn’t enough, it looks similar streamers mightiness commencement purging them from existence. At slightest that’s what’s happening with Gordita Chronicles astatine HBO Max. 

On Thursday (December 8), showrunner Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz tweeted that the series, which was canceled aft lone 1 season, would nary longer beryllium disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max.

“Just got the precise bittersweet quality that [Gordita Chronicles] is being pulled from the [HBO Max] platform,” Muñoz-Liebowitz wrote. “Binge it 1 past clip earlier our saccharine small amusement is gone. Thank you to everyone who loved and supported our show.”

Gordita Chronicles followed the communicative of “Cucu,” a 12-year-old Dominican miss who moves with her household from the Dominican Republic to Miami successful the 1980s. The bid was loosely based connected the beingness of the bid creator Claudia Forestieri.

Like different Latine TV bid that person been canceled successful caller years similar Gentefied, On My Block, The Baker and the Beauty, and One Day astatine a Time, Gordita Chronicles besides earned stellar reviews from critics. It turns out, however, that producing a bully amusement that features underrepresented characters connected TV isn’t capable to support it connected the air. Apparently, it’s besides not capable to support it from disappearing altogether.

Fans of the bid and followers of Muñoz-Liebowitz weren’t precise blessed erstwhile she announced the atrocious news. Many urged others to ticker the amusement earlier it was pulled from the platform. “Please, delight ticker this if you person the chance,” 1 Twitter idiosyncratic wrote. “[Gordita Chronicles] is simply a fantastic show, and this quality is perfectly atrocious.”

Others blamed Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav for the move. He’s the 1 that pulled the plug this twelvemonth connected Batgirl starring Leslie Grace successful the rubric role. “I hatred David Zaslav with a fiery passion,” a idiosyncratic tweeted.

Many radical besides wondered wherefore the determination was being made successful the archetypal place. Does it truly outgo that overmuch wealth for a bid to unrecorded connected a platform, truthful others mightiness observe it? What’s the constituent of removing it?

“Serious question for [HBO Max]: Why would you propulsion a amusement from your level erstwhile it’s wide known that shows astir underrepresented communities are lacking? What intent does this serve?”

There’s nary connection erstwhile precisely Gordita Chronicles volition vanish from HBO Max, so, really, if you haven’t seen the amusement yet, bash yourself a favour and binge the 10 episodes this weekend. Because our stories substance and merit to beryllium told. Period.