(courtesy IMP Awards)
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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 within Chinatown, while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight. Interior Chinatown is a series created and written by writer Charles Yu (also a writer on Here and Now, Dream Corp LLC). Based on Yu’s book of the same name. With writing by Eva Anderson, Naiem Bouier, Greg Cabrera, Keiko Green, Matthew Okumura, Lauren Otero, Alex Russell, Saba Saghafi, Tiffany So. With episodes directed by Stephanie Laing, John Lee, Pete Chatmon, Jaffar Mahmood, Ben Sinclair, Anu Valia, Alice Wu, and Taika Waititi. Exec produced by Charles Yu, Dan Lin, Lindsey Liberatore, Jeff Skoll, Miura Kite, Elsie Choi, Garrett Basch, John Lee, Taika Waititi. (courtesy First Showing)
Have you ever dreamed of a life more extraordinary?
Be careful what you wish for because you might just find yourself in the middle of the biggest, baddest adventure of your life, complete with impromptu kung fu outbreaks!
Not that Willis Wu seems to mind; well, not at first anyway!
Interior Chinatown looks like it’s going to be a lot of status quo-busting fun; just how much will become evident when the show releases its full 10-episode season on 19 November on Hulu.