'Kim's Convenience' Star Simu Liu Gets Candid About The Show's Abrupt Cancellation
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The beloved Canadian sitcom’s fifth and final season premiered on Netflix this week.
Fans of the Canadian sitcom “Kim’s Convenience” were saddened to learn earlier this year that the show’s next season would be its last, even though the series was supposedly renewed for two more seasons in 2020. One of the series’ stars, Simu Liu, wrote candidly this week about the circumstances of the show’s abrupt cancellation and a lack of behind-the-camera representation. In a lengthy Facebook post Wednesday, the day the fifth and final season premiered on Netflix, Liu said the show’s producers were “overwhelmingly white,” the writing staff “lacked both East Asian and female representation” and that series creator Ins Choi was the only writer of Korean descent. Liu also claimed Choi did not do enough to train and mentor others to take the reins after his departure. “Kim’s Convenience” has garnered widespread praise, particularly from Asian viewers, for the ways it incorporates the characters’ identity in culturally specific ways — without making it the main plot point or perpetuating tired tropes. The CBC sitcom, which is available on Netflix in the U.S., centers the Kims, a Korean Canadian family in Toronto: convenience store owners Mr. and Mrs. Kim (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon) and their adult children, Jung (Liu), a manager at a rental car company, and Janet (Andrea Bang), a photography student.
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