Driving by her deep will of beginning a professional career, Cristela, a young ambitious and smart girl, who studies in a law firm, struggles against convincing her family with the job she has at a prestigious law firm, as they have an old tradition and refuses to make a girl work.
It's doing something viewers have seen a million times before, but succeeds because of its stellar execution, not just because of its novel subject matter.
Cristela is unfailingly good-natured, but never quite funny enough. In a TV world where sitcoms either draw blood or put audiences into a stupor, that might actually turn out to be its secret weapon -- as the TV comedy that works the bland middle ground.