I remember when the novel Interior Chinatown won the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction because the author was an Taiwanese American ex-lawyer, Charles Yu. I recently read that the novel was being adapted into a television series, which will now stream all episodes starting on November 19th on Hulu and Disney+:
“Based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White. Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.”
It’s great to see Jimmy O. Yang and Ronny Chieng in dramatic roles rather than purely comedic ones. I also almost didn’t recognize that actress Chloe Bennet also stars in the series.
