Underplayed Gems

Karate kid leyends (2023)

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Original title
American Born Chinese
Genre
physical comedy
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 8 episodes
Rated
TV-PG
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 118 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A high school student named Jin Wang struggles to fit in. He is assigned to show a new exchange student around and becomes involved in a conflict between Chinese gods and mythical beings.

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What happens

American Born Chinese is an American fantasy action comedy television sitcom created by Kelvin Yu for Disney+. It follows tenth-grader Jin Wang (Ben Wang), who is struggling to fit in with his peers. When he is tasked with showing new exchange student Wei-Chen (Jimmy Liu) around, he is unexpectedly thrust into a battle between mythical Chinese gods, including Sun Wukong (Daniel Wu) and Guanyin (Michelle Yeoh). The series is based on the 2006 graphic novel American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, who drew inspiration from his own adolescent years in the 1990s, incorporating elements from Chinese folk tales and mysticism found in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West. The series consists of eight episodes and premiered on Disney+ on May 24, 2023. It received generally positive reviews from critics. Commentators referred to it as one of the best offerings on Disney+ and praised the way it moved across cultural boundaries, its action sequences, and the performances of the cast, though criticism was aimed at its different plot from the source material and inaccuracies of Chinese mythological characters. In January 2024, the series was canceled after one season due to low viewership. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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