Promised Land looks to deftly address race, a topic hotly debated both within and outside

[Jin Wah]

It’s a bit of storytelling that becomes less apt and more cliched with each passing year: According to Pew, two-thirds of Latinx people in the U.S. are born here and of the one-third who immigrated, most are documented. But, as its title suggests, Promised Land is steeped in the kind of American exceptionalism that comforts many Anglos and Latinxs alike—that immigrants are better off here; that despite punitive laws and rampant discrimination, on balance, the U.S. is better than the homelands they’ve left. The show contrasts these recent, young immigrants’ experiences which the multigenerational Sandoval family, owners of one of the largest wineries in California, the fictional Heritage House. The whole family lives a life of luxury—we’re talking beautiful houses, cars, and outfits.

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