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 ...

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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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.

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,

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,

Adapted by Charles Yu from his own novel, this series about a man stuck inside a cop show satirizes Hollywood’s penchant for pigeonholing Asian actors.