Tanya Saracho, who has written for HBO’s Looking and Girls, offers a portrait of a Texas trophy wife on the Mexican border

Some trophies lie in dusty neglect under shoes and coats; others are obsessively polished and displayed by vain owners. Latina replacement bride Liliana (Marta Milans) gets both treatments in Mala Hierba. She’s expected to look sexy and glamorous at all times, even as her wealthy brute of a husband treats her like garbage. Tanya Saracho’s satirical dramedy tracks this conflicted Texan socialite over two weeks as she is torn between her heart and her credit limit. It’s a tough call when bedroom-eyed Maritza (ice-chill Roberta Colindrez), a flame from Liliana’s past, reignites at a party. Soon she’s shacking up with this Chicago-based feminist artist, praying that her horribly spoiled stepdaughter, Fabiola (Ana Nogueria, splendidly vulgar), doesn’t rat her out.