I watched Kingpin last night, and I just have to say: What a great show! I spent most of the hour cracking up. Everything about the show just seemed right on. We Mexicans really do talk like that. And the fact that there were so many bad words in Spanish had me very much amused. I’m glad not everything was subtitled, and I’m glad that no character on the show was reduced to a stereotype.
I know there are some latino groups who are ready to trash the show because they think it makes us look bad, and my answer to that is to get real. The Mexican Mafia exists, and to claim that it portrays minorities in a negative light is both stupid, and promotes censorship. Neither is good.