Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang) wants to be more than the background character in someone else's story. Working as a waiter at his uncle's Chinatown restaurant, the Golden Palace, he spends his days throwing out trash bags and dreaming of being a protagonist.

Ronny Chieng and Chloe Bennet also star in Charles Yu’s adaptation of his own acclaimed 2020 novel, about an unassuming waiter who gets caught up in a cold case involving his missing brother.

So goes the internal monologue of Interior Chinatown protagonist Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang), who works as a waiter in Chinatown. While Willis' musings about his role in life could just be the result of aimless angst, they are actually 100-percent true.

Interior Chinatown is a new Hulu miniseries by creator Charles Yu, who also wrote the award-winning novel of the same name. The story follows Jimmy O. Yang as Willis Wu, a man who exists as a generic background character in the fictional police drama Black and White.

"Interior Chinatown" is a visceral and biting satire of the minuscule and stereotypical roles Asian Americans had to play in American television while being an engaging neo-noir comedy. The bold liberties it takes fit the television medium pack a punch and only demonstrate Charles Yu's versatility as a creator. One of 2024's finest new shows.

The comedian and filmmaker stop by to discuss their upcoming American television series, created by showrunner Charles Yu and based on his novel of the same name.