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Pop Culture Happy Hour

Interior Chinatown

Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR

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4.5 β€’ 10.6K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The super-meta Hulu series Interior Chinatown mashes up a whole bunch of genres β€” including kung fu movies and police procedurals β€” to explore Asian-American identity in interesting ways. Jimmy O. Yang plays a waiter who dreams of a more exciting life outside his close-knit community. After witnessing a crime, he has a chance to help investigators solve the case β€” and he soon realizes he's more deeply connected to the mystery than he initially thought. The show was created by Charles Yu, who based it on his own novel.

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The super meta series, Interior Chinatown, matches up a whole bunch of genres, including

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kung fu movies and police procedurals to explore Asian American identity in interesting ways.

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It's about a waiter who dreams of a more exciting life outside his close-knit community.

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And after witnessing a crime, he has a chance to help investigators solve the case.

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But as the details unravel, he realizes he's more deeply connected to the mystery than he

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initially thought.

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I'm Ayesha Harris, and today we're talking about the Hulu series, Interior Chinatown,

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on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.

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