TV Guide Magazine by Matt Roush

The jubilant reimagining of the vintage Norman Lear comedy has survived cancellation and is the better for it. [30 Mar - 12 Apr 2020, p.9]

Vox.com by Caroline Framke

Penelope is one of the most beautifully fleshed-out characters in a sitcom today, period. It’s as much of a joy to watch Machado work as it is to watch the Alvarez family, and the people who love them, live.

Washington Post by Hank Stuever

Well, they only had to remake a jillion TV shows from yesteryear to finally get one exactly, perfectly right. Not only is Netflix’s reimagined “One Day at a Time” a joy to watch, it’s also the first time in many years that a multicamera sitcom (the kind filmed on a set with studio-audience laughter) has seemed so instinctively comfortable in its own skin.

Paste Magazine by Amy Amatangelo

The show is at once a throwback and cutting edge. The cast is all so strong. They hit the comedic notes effortlessly and with aplomb.

TV Guide by Megan Vick

This is a formula that works and only takes the show to better and more emotional heights because it's done the character work to earn that reaction from the audience. This is a family you know and love, but you'll only enjoy getting deeper with them in its equally impressive Season 3.

The A.V. Club by Danette Chavez

ODAAT has long since perfected its mix of in-the-moment humor and issues-based storytelling, so we get great visual gags (think Dr. B posing as a matador for Lydia) and gentle teasing about baby queer Elena’s boundless enthusiasm--which culminates in the wearing of a “heart-butt” hat--along with heartfelt moments of discovery and vulnerability.

IndieWire by Liz Shannon Miller

There are a couple of narrative turns that aren’t all that shocking, but what keeps them compelling is the depth of emotion associated with them. Executive producers Gloria Calderon Kellett and Mike Royce have ensured that the best aspects of the multi-cam format play these scenes as pure theater, bending the rules of reality at times for the greatest emotional catharsis.

New York Magazine (Vulture) by Matt Zoller Seitz

This is the sort of series that makes difficult things seem easy, so easy that you often don’t realize how artful it is until you think back on it.

Variety by Sonia Saraiya

The new show, which updates the original’s single-mom plotline to follow a Cuban-American family in Los Angeles, is fresh, funny, and smart. ... The pilot episode alone is an exercise in using sitcom rhythms to further, not just flatten, the themes of the show.