After breaking apart together with her hunky EMT boyfriend Max (Ed Quinn) in Season 2, Penelope Alvarez (Justina Machado) hasn’t had a whole lot of luck within the love division. However romance will as soon as once more enter Lupe’s life in One Day at a Time‘s fourth season, which has moved from Netflix to PopTV.
Whereas Justina Machado could not reveal any particular particulars about Lupe’s new man, she was capable of share the kind of companion her character is searching for — and he seems like fairly the catch. “I believe it might be any individual who’s a household man … any individual who has profession, any individual who has good morals, good ethics, a terrific kisser. Someone that is aware of he’ll get two for one — ‘trigger mami is a part of it, abuela is a part of it,” Machado informed TV Information earlier this 12 months.
As for what Lydia (Rita Moreno) thinks her daughter Lupe ought to search for in a companion, Moreno speculated, “a pleasant man who’s very good to the household, and he will not get recent too quickly, as a result of if he reveals her his peepee that is going to be a really dangerous factor.”
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Although Lupe hasn’t had a critical relationship since Max, Machado stated this doesn’t suggest that Lupe has struggled to quiet down or discover a good companion; she’s merely had different priorities up till now! “She’s elevating these youngsters, she’s the one which’s incomes the cash, she had to return to highschool to turn into a nurse practitioner,” Machado defined. “I believe now there’s sufficient time, now that she’s achieved that aim of being a nurse practitioner, I believe now she will open up her world to like.”
Lupe will not be the one one opening as much as love this season. Alex (Marcel Ruiz) can also be getting his first girlfriend this season, and Moreno is bracing for Lydia to have a sturdy response to this growth. “I do not know but as a result of I have never seen a script however … you realize her. She’s very jealous,” Moreno informed us in August. “She’ll discover one thing to criticize. ‘What’s mistaken together with her hair?’ God solely is aware of what she’s going to search out mistaken with the lady. We’ll see. As a result of in any case, that is her boyfriend,” Moreno joked.
Along with all of the fluttering hearts within the fourth season, the brand new episodes of One Day at a Time may also deal with points just like the 2020 election, monetary stress, and even Lydia having a non secular disaster in an episode directed by Machado.
“I am thrilled as a result of [Machado] has nice concepts and what she’s fantastic at, that I am not so good at generally, is pulling it again,” Moreno stated of the episode. “There’s nothing extra shifting, I believe, than a girl as unstable as Lydia is having to be in charge of her emotions, and this could possibly be completely marvelous.”
One Day at a Time Season Four premieres Tuesday, March 24 at 9:30/8:30c on PopTV. It’ll transfer to 9/8c starting Tuesday, April 14.
Reporting by Megan Vick.
