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The story begins and ends around Manhattan Beach, renamed “Gordita Beach” in honor of all the things P.I. hero Larry “Doc” Sportello loves best: non-nutritious foods, chubby babies and voluptuous femme fatales.

We’re in the early ’70s, so Gordita inevitably suggests a kind of Fat City too, ripe for the plundering of rapacious real estate combines.

The company also dumped an upbeat HBO Max comedy series with a Latino cast, “Gordita Chronicles”, after only about a month on TV.

The guild cited HBO’s decisions to pull “Gordita Chronicles” and “Tuca & Bertie,” an animated series whose two leads were voiced by women of color.

“We can’t just let shows disappear, especially shows that depict immigration and Latinx families in a positive light,” said “Gordita Chronicles” showrunner Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz.