The One Day at a Time reboot for Netflix was my first project with Norman Lear. The uptempo main title sequence - cut to the beat of Gloria Estefan's version of the original theme song - needed to cover a lot of ground in its fifty seconds.

Familial and political histories are depicted with historical photos of the Cuban exodus campaign, Operation Pedro Pan. The Echo Park neighborhood and Latinx experience were other key ingredients, as was a nod to Justina Machado's character Penelope being both a nurse and a veteran.