Showing 46 - 60 of 178 articles tagged "Asian Americans and TV"

• Posted Saturday 3/20/21 at 3:49AM EDT

  Riverdale's Charles Melton regrets "suppressing my Asian identity": "I’ve realized that I never stood up for my Korean heritage"

  In a column for Variety in response to the wave of anti-Asian hate crimes, Melton looked back at his identity...

• Posted Friday 3/19/21 at 2:19PM EDT

  Late Night writer Karen Chee blasts media for humanizing the Atlanta massage parlor killer while not calling his actions a hate crime

  Chee, who is Korean-American, delivered a powerful monologue on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Tuesday's massacre that resulted in...

• Posted Thursday 3/18/21 at 6:46PM EDT

  Former MTV News correspondent SuChin Pak recalls an MTV executive describing her with an ethnic slur behind her back

  The Atlana massage parlor massacre prompted Pak to share an experience form two decades ago while working at MTV News.

• Posted Thursday 3/18/21 at 6:46PM EDT

  Daniel Dae Kim speaks at a Congressional hearing in a powerful message on anti-Asian violence

  "We as Asian Americans have come to this country because we believe in the American dream.

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  Posted Thursday 3/18/21 at 2:07AM EDT

  Hollywood is complicit in hate crimes against Asians by reducing them to dehumanizing stereotypes

  If you did a search for "happy ending" on Twitter as news broke Tuesday night that eight people were killed,...

• Posted Wednesday 3/17/21 at 2:44PM EDT

  Kung Fu cast and crew are using their platform to denounce anti-Asian hate crimes

  The CW series' cast and crew held a virtual panel this morning, one day after a man killed eight people,...

• Posted Wednesday 3/17/21 at 2:18AM EDT

  Daniel Dae Kim, Mindy Kaling and other actors of Asian descent denounce Atlanta area mass shooting

  A gunman's alleged killing of eight people, including six Asian women, at three different massage parlors in the Atlanta area...

• Posted Friday 2/26/21 at 4:03AM EST

  Bling Empire's core problem is that it wants to be three programs in one: lifestyle porn, cultural education, and human interest

  "It only excels at the former, however, and minimizes the latter two in the process," says Rachel Yang, pointing out...

• Posted Saturday 2/06/21 at 5:06AM EST

  Bling Empire ultimately exists for the white gaze

  "Reality TV has always been an underrated source of representation on screen," says Inkoo Kang.

• Posted Thursday 2/04/21 at 2:40AM EST

  Steven Yeun was seen as the "Great Asian Hope" because of The Walking Dead

  "The success of The Walking Dead catapulted Yeun into an odd place," Jay Caspian Kang writes in a New York...

• Posted Saturday 1/30/21 at 4:20AM EST

  Bling Empire is a sloppy attempt at half-hearted Asian-American representation

  The popularity of Netflix's Crazy Rich Asians-inspired reality show "rides on the indulgence of old tropes, its tone deafness made...

• Posted Saturday 1/16/21 at 5:56AM EST

  Netflix's Bling Empire feels refreshing, even if it's an overly familiar reality show

  The Crazy Rich Asians-inspired reality show features a "surprisingly likable friend group, who slowly reveal the layers of their interpersonal...

• Posted Saturday 1/09/21 at 9:52AM EST

  Now that Cobra Kai has a bigger Netflix platform, its whiteness is even more glaring as a TV series rooted in East Asian tradition

  Cobra Kai has no Asian lead actors or any writers of Asian descent.

• Posted Saturday 1/09/21 at 9:52AM EST

  The podcast All the Asians on Star Trek shows just how diverse the Trek franchise has been

  Phil Yu, known online as "Angry Asian Man," founded the podcast in August to interview all the actors of Asian...

• Posted Thursday 12/24/20 at 3:13AM EST

  Ken Leung on his Industry role: "It's so ironic that I have to go to the UK to find an Asian-American character worth playing"

  The Lost and The Sopranos vet "has range: he can be the bad guy or the supportive sidekick, the unpredictable...