Review: Interior Chinatown
If we’re all the heroes of our own stories, that’s generally as it should be. Such a belief is often what motivates us to shape our lives and find meaning in them. How someone might think otherwise and how it can be corrected is the primary concern of Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown.
Based on Yu’s book of the same name, it doesn’t so much rewrite a tired premise as attempt to dissect how such premises came to be, and how they sometimes keep people from stepping out of their designated places. If the show isn’t quite a scathing indictment of assimilation and the racist expectations therein, it at least makes its emphasis on the comedic murder mystery a fun, intriguing ride, as waiter and aspiring actor Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang) struggles to step into the spotlight of his own life.
