Kim's Convenience

At a time when we’re faced with so much human loss, it feels weird to also be really sad about the end of a TV series. But @kimsconvenience was always something a bit more.

For a lot of us, it was finally a chance to see an on-screen world that looked a bit more like our families. That was honest about things like generational divides and microaggressions but never weighed down by it.

I’m not a big TV watcher (though maybe quarantine has shaped that a little) but when I first came upon their first season during a weekend in Canada, it was something. There isn’t much in the show that’s a carbon copy to my life, and yet, the fine details- like the younger characters having a foot in each world, to the diverse and quirky set of customers coming in from all over the globe, to the portrayal of Asian Christianity and my personal fave, Pastor Nina, so much of it was very familiar. It was like suddenly one show had the eyes to see into an overlooked-in-plain-sight, beautiful, goofy, heart filled world.

I’m sad this show ended so suddenly at its peak. I hope to see a lot more of everyone who worked on the show, and like @simuliu puts it- “amazing things happen when you open the gates and allow more diverse stories to be told.”