When Does ‘One Day At A Time’ Season 3 Come Out?

By Joe Reid @joereid
Published Jan. 31, 2018, 1:02 p.m. ET

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If it’s to become a tradition that every January brings with it a new season of Netflix’s One Day at a Time, we might start looking forward to the coldest month of the year again. Perhaps diagnoses of Seasonal Affective Disorder will experience a sharp downturn. Maybe we’ll sit there nervously checking our calendars all through the Christmas season, impatiently waiting for the new season to drop. That is how good One Day at a Time season 2 was. Catching up with the Alvarez family — overworked Penelope, activist Elena, super-confident Alex, queenly Lydia, hot-ass Schneider, even Penelope’s Bradley Cooper-looking boyfriend Max — was a treat from beginning to end.

So when do we get more? What’s in store for the Alvarez family next? So many questions!

Did Season 1 end on a cliffhanger?

No. But it really could have!

SPOILERS, obviously, for those who have not finished the season (though if that’s the case, why are you here asking about season 3? Finish what’s on your plate!), but the season finale saw Lydia (the incomparable Rita Moreno) in a hospital bed after suffering a heart attack. The whole episode is rather sweet, as each character gets a moment with Lydia. And even though in your head you’re thinking “It’s Rita Moreno! She’s the most beloved cast member! They’d be insane to write her off,” the show still sells you on the idea that this might be Lydia’s time. A cliffhanger at that moment would have been massively cruel but also hugely effective. Lord knows I would have been on tenterhooks for the next 11 months.

But no, Lydia’s health crisis gets resolved, and there is no cliff to be hanging off of. Unless you are particularly invested in the idea that Penelope’s hot boyfriend Max returns after their breakup. Which we do hope he does! Did we mention the looks-like-Bradley-Cooper thing?

When does Season 2 come out?

Great question!

Short answer: we don’t know yet.

Longer answer: do the math, One Day at a Timers! Season 1 premiered on January 6, 2017. Season 2 dropped on January 26, 2018. Which means you’re either going to be blocking off your entire January 2019 for One Day at a Time season 3, or, less likely, that Netflix keeps making you wait one year and 20 days exactly, in which case, cancel your Valentine’s Day weekend plans.

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