Inkoo Kang
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Television critic @newyorker . Pronounced in-goo. Find me at the other place and/or get updates from me:
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Love this (male) hanbok-inspired suit jacket on MINARI producer Christina Oh, who came with the Oscars’ best date
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lena dunham's polly pocket movie and jerry seinfeld's pop tarts movie being announced within 24 hours of each other really affirming my conviction that we live in a godless world
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there's a difference between saying "i am not the target demo for this" and "this is not about me, so it must only be for a tiny group of Others." how insulting and incurious. how small.
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I really need Lucy Liu to write a memoir.
if i didnt believe lucy liu was from queens before, i sure do now after hearing she literally started throwing hands at bill murray after he stopped in the middle of a take while filming charlie’s angels just to tell her she cant act 😩 like first of all she carried that film!!
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Plz send heartwarming stories of straight male partners supporting your creative endeavors. Hungry for a story that isn't "I achieved unprecedented professional success and my relationship was never the same."
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Some personnel news:
Incredibly excited to tell you the news, just announced to staff:
@inkookang
is The
@WashingtonPost
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i genuinely don't know if i could physically withstand the combined hotness of daniel kaluuya & steven yeun
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My first cover story for
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i spent the first few months of the pandemic anxious about leaving the house, more afraid of anti-asian comments or violence than infection. i haven't really talked about this w/anyone because i wanted to believe my fears were irrational, that the world is safer than it was. 1/2
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well, this is thrilling
More
@NewYorker
hiring news!
@inkookang
joining as our new TV critic.
@dstfelix
, who has been in the seat since 2019, moving on to a broader ambit. Congrats all!
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
I won the
@LAPressClub
’s
#NAEJ
Award for TV Criticism!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
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anyone else just roaming from site to site, staring at sweatpants and sweatshirts, like a ghost seeking warmth
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Some thoughts on the strikes and larger trends in film and TV.
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as a lady writer in her thirties the only thing i find relatable about carrie in the original sex and the city is that she does all her work in bed
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brb just realized the little mermaid is only for people who live underwater and the lion king only for talking animals
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Always a thrill to write about SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE, a show whose stubborn joy and complicated relationships I can't sing enough praises of.
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As soon as I saw FIRE ISLAND, I knew I wanted to talk to the geniuses behind it. What a thrill to speak with Joel Kim Booster, Bowen Yang and Andrew Ahn about sexual racism, Margaret Cho, and the real-life experiences that made it into the film.
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"The Idol breathlessly wonders, what if a man sexually dominated a woman? Snore! Showgirls asks a much more worthwhile question: what if sex was like a dolphin having a seizure?"
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the Korean American Day content I needed
Song Kang-ho dropping in on the Oldboy set. He was filming Memories of Murder nearby.
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BRIDGERTON is the sex-positive, smartly feminist Jane Austen/Gossip Girl mashup I didn't know I needed.
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I see referencing the foods and drinks that the characters on a TV show are seen eating over and over -- so much so that they become iconic images of said show -- in a review of a movie based on the show is "racism" now. OK.
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i was relieved in recent months to finally no longer fear going to the grocery store or walk my dogs in the neighborhood i've lived in for almost a decade, even if i live near oakland chinatown, where there have been attacks against elderly asians. so much for feeling safe. 2/2
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I wrote about why the sit-down between Meghan, Harry and Oprah was so powerful, and how the Sussexes delineated how interpersonal niceness without institutional change often isn't enough.
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Long live Maya Ishii-Peters, the kind of Asian American puberty gremlin I was and probably still am.
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"all deaths matter"
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RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON is the kind of movie I watched two days in a row, because I wanted to share the viewing experience with my husband. The last Disney animated movie I liked this much was INSIDE OUT.
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gl*ss oni*n has a 93% rating on RT but i don't personally know a single person who liked it...
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this is absolutely correct tho
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honestly, very gratifying to see ryusuke hamaguchi thank his actors in an industry that still so devalues asian performers (why was he drummed so aggressively off the stage tho)
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This feels like a Kimmy Schmidt storyline that was discarded because it would've been too ludicrous.
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Lmaoooo Elaine Chao and Betsy DeVos resigning today in protest like they have principles
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Hello sadness my old friend: The PARTY DOWN revival is FANTASTIC.
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what a wasted opportunity to reconsider what's been normalized as "universal," esp. by a company that only had its
-first female protag 10 yrs ago (don't get me started on brenda chapman)
-first black character 2 yrs ago
-first female feature director (not co-director)... now
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ok very amused that WINNING TIME is based on a book called "Showtime" and hbo execs being like, give us literally any other title for the series
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also noteworthy that INSIDE OUT, which deals with fairly similar themes, didn't get this rancid treatment
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Finally got to write at length about one of my favorite current shows — set in an LA I recognize and starring a comedy dream team of Chris Estrada, Frankie Quiñones, Michael Imperioli, and secret weapon Laura Patalano.
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all hail the new leap day william
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i don't understand the love for PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN, and from the industry, even less
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anyway, this point can't be emphasized enough. the people who are most at risk are the people least able to fight back.
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rewatching MINARI yet again for a work thing, and i keep finding new pieces of my childhood in it 😭
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@anthonyocampo
A friend and I have a pet theory that the more prestigious the university, the less they’re likely to pay — they treat you like they’re doing YOU a favor by letting you talk to their students. It’s not a perfect correlation but it’s been a pretty reliable rule of thumb.
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anyone else find these well meaning check-ins just retraumatizing
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A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA didn't win but it's terribly moving and well worth a watch (and easily available on Netflix).
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So honored to be nominated in the LA Press Club's NAEJ Awards in the TV Critic category!
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me: cat lawyer got milkshake ducked
husband: i hate that i understood that sentence
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both of my parents have received their first vaccine shots (in LA county) 🙌
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I have no words.
On
#NationalPetsDay
celebrating our dog Grizzly who we raised as a puppy but had to give away because one of our boys became allergic to him. Miss you Grizz!
#dogsforyang
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In addition to this, it’s felt very frustrating watching a lot of non-Asians (and Asians!) unfamiliar with Asian American discourse dunk on
@therebeccasun
, who is one of the most thoughtful and conscientious people I know, esp. about diversity and representation issues.
"Bamboo ceiling" is a term widely credited to an As-Am to express the glass ceiling for AAPIs in leadership. The fact that it's new to many is a reminder of the lack of visibility of AAPIs & our representation in media coverage. We welcome conversations reevaluating this language
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why does my friend hate me enough to send me this excerpt from a romance novel she’s reading about two public-radio employees
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imagine wanting to marry someone this dumb
Ladies if you’re dating a white man that can’t even bow for your grandparents, he doesn’t respect your culture, your family, and you. Just dump him.
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3 BODY PROBLEM, the follow-up series from GoT creators David Benioff/DB Weiss (w/Alexander Woo) is the most invigorating drama I've seen since THE CURSE. And I can't remember the last time I craved more episodes this much as soon as I finished a season.
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sandra oh and alexander payne's marriage tbh
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Very strange to be interviewed instead of doing the interviewing. This piece captures me pretty well (unfortunately)!!!!!
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I went unexpectedly personal in my review of THE CHAIR (streaming now), a show that felt made for me.
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ok, so it's not just me
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Just in time for Halloween 🎃, here's my first review for the New Yorker, on AMC's sexy, smart, and extremely fun remake of INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 🦇.
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since i'm beplagued and bored - can't really do anything useful atm - here's a brief list of things i do a lot more now 10ish years into my writing/criticism career than i did at the start (feel free to add your own hard-won lessons):
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FELLOW TRAVELERS, an adult drama in more ways than one, is the best series I’ve seen in months. I really hope this show—and Jonathan Bailey in particular—get the love it deserves.
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watched MISS CONGENIALITY for the first time last night. it's obviously well done for what it is, but i definitely don't miss that late 90s/early 2000s era of rom coms where the female protagonist is wildly attracted to the openly chauvinistic womanizer, oof
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when you think you're doing OK, and then 10 seconds with a foam roller lets you know, actually you're deeply unwell
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shows i would rewatch in a heartbeat if i had the time, approximately ranked
-the americans
-halt and catch fire
-looking
-enlightened
-atlanta
-vida
-the other two
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I wrote about representation and feelings.
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A movie made by Hot Topic, for Hot Topic
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The Comfy Oscars (which I like a lot more as a concept than the execution here, but I recognize the power move that this is)
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I adored PHYSICAL, Rose Byrne's new show (out Friday) about a former '60s wannabe idealist embracing the Reagan years’ most iconic forces: aerobics and capitalism. Unsurprisingly, Byrne is effing sensational.
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to die for has to be, uh, far and away nicole kidman's best film, right? with the others a close second? please for the love of god no one nominate the hours.
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Rewatching SHOPLIFTERS for a thing. It's so gentle, and so searing.
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I wrote about BLING EMPIRE, HOUSE OF HO, and the importance (and disappointments) of Asian-American representational trash.
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the only thing i managed to get done today is drop off the small dog at the groomers’
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I wrote about SQUID GAME and the gaps in our pop culture it seems to be filling.
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hbo should thank mike white for all these emmys by giving him enlightened s3-5
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it's taken me years to process how many millennials weren't allowed to watch the simpsons as kids
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hard getting back into any sort of celebratory mood, but i was proud to make my pop culture happy hour debut this wk, chatting w/
@craftingmystyle
about steven yeun's essential pre-MINARI performances in BURNING, TUCA & BERTIE, and the underrated MAYHEM
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MINARI is out on VOD today. ICYMI, here's a wide-ranging interview I did with Lee Isaac Chung, in which we touched on the astounding production design, the obvious care in the Korean dialogue and his interest in nature and ecology.
I really enjoyed talking to Lee Isaac Chung about the personal experiences he put into MINARI, the search for a bilingual Korean/Korean-American cast, and how he and his mom's dreams changed after the making of the film.
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One very annoying thing about reviewing things with toxic fanbases* (esp. as a woman and a critic of color), as I did this past week with the Jon Stewart show and The Sopranos/Many Saints of Newark, is that I felt this extra pressure to prove that I knew what I was talking about.
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is this what they mean when they say new york is dead
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