Review: Echo, "Taloa" | Season 1, Episode 4
“Generations are echoing.”
At the end of the day, most TV shows can be broken down into two categories: Shows about families and shows about found families. But for Maya Lopez those options don’t look so simple. Her mother died young, her grandmother rejected her, her father was murdered in front of her, and the father figure who took her under his wing was more interested in using her as a weapon than prioritizing her happiness. No wonder she has trouble trusting anyone but herself.
It's a tough way to live, both for Maya and for the people who actually do unequivocally care about her, like her cousin Bonnie and her uncle Henry. But given how much loss, abandonment, and betrayal she’s faced, can you really blame her for shutting them out?
That’s part of the reason it’s so moving to watch Echo embrace the idea of an ancestral line of women who are looking out for Maya, no matter where she goes. She’s lived a tougher life than most, in a way few peo…
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