If "K-Town" does eventually produce those predicted train wrecks, inevitably, they'll take place in hole-in-the-wall soju bars and underground karaoke studios off of Western, or smoky BBQ joints and gleaming nightclubs on Olympic. If "K-Town" does take off, you have to wonder how many other L. Or maybe "Reservoir Dads," following young, hipster fathers in Los Feliz and Silver Lake, negotiating the complex social relations of ordering at Intelligensia or the swing queue at the Silver Lake rec center playground.
And as my previous column practically set-up, "The " is just waiting to happen, dramatizing the lives of the San Gabriel Valley's Chinese American kids who spend their days at boba cafes. These are meant in jest yet their very plausibility is also part of the joke here; for all we know, these all may very well be in development as we speak. In the meanwhile, I'm split on whether I'll end up watching "K-Town" once it debuts in a few weeks.
I have no problem with its premise or its casting; I just don't know if either is particularly appealing to my t. But to the extent that the show sheds some light -- however staged and plotted -- on the social lives of young Asian Americans, I'd have to concur with Phil Yu when he suggests, "as stupid as [the show] might be, if this genre is what passes for popular entertainment in America, I say, 'why not?
The relative success of "Shah"s on basic cable raises an interesting question as to why ""K-Town"" is airing on an online network. Internet television may very well "be the future" but at this current moment, it's hard not to see this as a demotion of sorts, especially since ""K-Town"" was initially optioned by a basic cable network.
Is this because television executives consider Iranian Americans more marketable than Korean Americans? Or is it just one of those random happenstances within pop culture? I don't have a good theory here except to opine that, on the Orientalism spectrum, "Persians" historically conjure up images of exotic myths and picturesque locales whereas Koreans are more stereotyped for their inexpensive cars, hyper-pop girl groups, and kimchi.
The former lends itself to "general audience interest" in a way the latter does not. For one, the casting of so many fit bodies almost necessitates it. Second, the "greatest hits" of Los Angeles's landscapes are hard to escape for any show set in our fair city. Dig this story? Follow Artbound on Facebook and Twitter. Tending Nature. The Mallorca Files. Professor T Belgium. Fine Cut. SoCal Wanderer. Earth Focus Presents. Muhammad Ali.
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Americans love reality television shows. Since their initial mass popularity in the late '90s and early s, there has been an explosion of formats depicting nearly every facet of American life, including pawn shop owners, hoarders and drug addicts.
When development of the show was announced two years ago, the media immediately dubbed it Jersey Shore for Asians.
It was something executive producer Eugene Choi both embraced and shunned. Once people watch people will see how different it really is. One example he gave was the Korean nightclub scene where customers, in order to get in, must know the cell phone number of one of the waiters.
The waiter, in turn, will make a reservation for a group of men or a group of women. K-Town is the intersection of Korea and the U. I really believe YouTube is the next cable TV. He said the trick will be representing diverse images of the Korean-American community without making it look horrible the way many Italian-Americans felt Jersey Shore did to them.
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