Much of the attention before the launch of American Born Chinese – an adaptation of the celebrated 2006 graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang – focused on the reunion of the cast of Everything Everywhere All at Once. While there is plenty to like about the show, including great chemistry between Wang and Liu, and some fantastically acrobatic fight scenes, it is stark how much less compelling the actual war is than the high school one. Wei Chen is, in fact, the son of the Monkey King, who has stolen his father’s magical staff and come to Earth to find the “guide” that appeared to him in a dream.īut the staff is needed in the Heavenly Realm, as the Jade Emperor and his supporters, including the Monkey King, are battling an uprising led by the Bull Demon. Deflating micro-aggression aside, Wei-Chen’s arrival means that, on top of dealing with being a Chinese American teen in a largely white town, plus his parents’ crumbling marriage, Jin is now involved in a war being fought in “the Heavenly Realm”.
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