Now Streaming: Interior Chinatown

Interior Chinatown is a novel by Charles Yu. The book came out in 2020 and it’s already been turned into a TV series starring Jimmy O. Yang (of this classroom clip) and Ronny Chieng (of The Daily Show).

Here’s the show’s pitch:

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 streaming on Hulu and I can’t wait to check it out, even though this means I’ll have to pirate my son’s Hulu account. (Sidenote: the kid still lives with me and I’m pretty sure I’m actually paying the bill so, no need to come after me Disney!)

Here’s the trailer:

-KitJ