Yang once played “Chinese Teenager #1.” He’s now No. 1 on the call sheet in “Interior Chinatown” — despite playing downtrodden background actor Willis Wu in the new Hulu series. There’s no escaping the layers of meta around “Interior ...

The show was adapted for television by author Charles Yu, and based on his novel of the same name. In a hypothetical second season, Bennet would reprise her role as Lana. If it was renewed, it's assumed Jimmy O. Yang and Ronny Chieng would also return, as would Sullivan Jones and Lisa Gilroy.

Interior Chinatown offers a fun, over-the-top exploration of police procedurals, as well as what it means to be Asian-American.

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It’s a funny situation, he acknowledged when we spoke this month. “That’s something I’ve wrestled with, to be honest,” Yu said. “It’s not even necessarily a matter of selling out or not. It’s, how do you tell the story in a way that still stays true to the original impulse — while staying current with the times,

Gradually, it’s revealed that he’s actually a TV character forever trapped in the background of a police procedural. Created by Charles Yu, adapting his 2020 novel, the rules of the premise are never exactly clear,

Charles Yu adapts his award-winning novel into a series that is both starkly different from the original and frustratingly familiar.

Looking through the endless list of courses, I was drawn to one in particular – Asian American Literature. I wasn’t a huge reader since most of my day were now taken up by work, school, and other obligations,

The Hulu series unfolds in a Chinatown that “is both physical and psychological,” said Charles Yu, the creator. Here’s a look at how four key settings bring the story to life.