Over coffee and mini-conchas brought from a nearby Mexican bakery, Ms. Saracho described her experiences growing up in nine different port towns by the time she was nine (“my dad worked for Mexican customs”), her family’s move to Texas when she was 12 (“I thought I spoke English, but then found out I didn’t”), her playwriting career in Chicago (where she founded the theater group Teatro Luna), and her eventual relocation to Los Angeles in 2012 to work on series like “Looking” and “How to Get Away with Murder.”

”Vida” grew out of an assignment in early 2016, when she was tasked by Starz to develop a series about “chipsters” — a term for Chicano hipsters which can either be endearing or biting, depending on who’s saying it — and the topic of gentefication (see previous note on “chipsters”).

There was a lot to consider, Ms. Saracho said. Do Mexican Americans who return to their old neighborhoods still have a right to dictate what goes on there? Does wanting less crime and better roads automatically make you a chipster? Can one be simultaneously Latinx and vegan?

“It’s complicated,” she said. “And I have to see all the sides.”

The topic of gentrification has popped up on several recent shows, including series set in Inglewood (HBO’s “Insecure”), North Oakland (the web series “The North Pole”), Boyle Heights (the web series “Gente-fied,” which is being adapted into a series for Netflix) and Brooklyn (the Tracy Morgan comedy on TBS, “The Last O.G.,” and the web series “aka Wyatt Cenac” and “Brooklynification”).