What Is Interior Chinatown About?
Purposefully based in the practice of screenwriting, the title stylized as INT.
CHINATOWN depicts Chinatown itself as a kind of enclosure, instead of as an exterior neighborhood location.
As the series title suggests, in this story,Chinatown becomes the room where it happens.
That’s because the stars of a show like this always have resources at their disposal.
Like magic, a medical examiner briskly joins them with a tox (fine, -icology) report.
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This show knows its way around a cold open.
Most noticeably,Black and White: ICUcomes with its own hilarious two-tone knockoff of the iconicLaw and Ordermotif.
Interior Chinatownpresents a great game of main vs background character.
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Interior Chinatown, adapted from Charles Yu’s novel, follows Willis Wu, a background character in a TV police procedural. After witnessing a crime, he uncovers a criminal conspiracy in Chinatown and his family’s hidden past while exploring what it means to take the lead in his own story.
