Kim's Convenience
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Fairly mindless sitcom, but it's better than it should be. 20-minute episodes, easy-going, very bingeable.
- They make fun of everyone: whites, blacks, asians, first-generation immigrants, second-generation immigrants, straights, gays, transsexuals, transvestites, etc., etc., etc. And how they choose to get away with it is pretty genius. (They use a lot of the same tricks that Ali G and Borat were based on, but in a very different and more believable way.)
- It's interesting to me that we've come far enough along in our society where we can all understand the plights and foibles of a multi-generational Korean immigrant family. I can see this idea completely rejected even 10 years ago; the major fear would be that mainstream audiences wouldn't get it.
- They do a very good job with their diversity of character writing.
- Actually has a narrative. Which, cool.
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Thanks for the rec!
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