{"id":2881,"date":"2016-10-12T17:56:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T17:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/12\/kims-convenience-ins-choi-can-take-pride-in-this-debut\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T17:56:21","slug":"kims-convenience-ins-choi-can-take-pride-in-this-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/12\/kims-convenience-ins-choi-can-take-pride-in-this-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE: INS CHOI CAN TAKE PRIDE IN THIS DEBUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Carolyn Potts \/ TV, Eh?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The long awaited\u2014and much-hyped\u2014debut of <em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em> finally aired on CBC on Tuesday, and here\u2019s a bit of background in case you have missed it. Mr. Kim, a.k.a. \u201cAppa\u201d (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) and Mrs. Kim, \u201cUmma\u201d (Jean Yoon) immigrated to Canada from Korea in the 1980s, and own a convenience store in downtown Toronto. They have raised two children: Jung (Simu Liu) and Janet (Andrea Bang); Jung has been estranged from his father for several years and is working at a car rental shop, while Janet remains at home, attending college as an arts major and helping out at her parents\u2019 store when she can.<\/p>\n<p>The premiere episode, entitled \u201cGay Discount,\u201d began as its title might suggest, with Mr. Kim offering a gay discount to his gay customers during Pride Week. There is no need to tell Mr. Kim you are gay, because he can tell. Mr. Kim has 100 per cent guarantee gay-dar. Word spreads of the discount. Some customers like it, some try to take advantage, whilst others find it completely discriminatory. Meanwhile, Mrs. Kim thinks it is time she found\u00a0Janet a \u201ccool Christian Korean boyfriend.\u201d I have a feeling this will be an ongoing concern for Mrs. Kim, an annoyance for Janet, and provide many humourous situations in the weeks to come.<\/p>\n<p>The other long story arc will focus on the rift between Appa and Jung, and the family\u2019s desire to see it mended, making the family\u00a0 whole again. But, it seems Jung will have his hands full with his enamoured manager, Shannon (Nicole Power).<\/p>\n<p>As stories go, <em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em>\u00a0is a fun show. I hope that the hype leading up to it doesn\u2019t leave viewers expecting more than it delivers. Time will tell if Tuesday\u2019s back-to-back episodes prove strong enough to keep viewers returning\u00a0in the coming weeks. This was truly a charming beginning with some laugh-out-loud moments. The show features characters that are real. Series co-creator Ins Choi is not giving us humour at the expense of stereotypes, but rather he gives us believable characters we can connect with on a human level so we find the humour in the mundane. All told\u2014very refreshing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em> is based on the award-winning play by Choi, who also adapted it for television. Kevin White serves as showrunner, and co-created the series with Choi, who both hold executive producer credits along with Thunderbird Films\u2019 Ivan Fecan and Soulpepper Theatre Company\u2019s Albert Schultz.<\/p>\n<p><em>Kim\u2019s Convenience<\/em>\u00a0airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. on CBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Potts \/ TV, Eh? The long awaited\u2014and much-hyped\u2014debut of Kim\u2019s Convenience finally aired on CBC on Tuesday, and here\u2019s a bit of background in case you have missed it. Mr. Kim, a.k.a. \u201cAppa\u201d (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) and Mrs. Kim, \u201cUmma\u201d (Jean Yoon) immigrated to Canada from Korea in the 1980s, and own a convenience &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/12\/kims-convenience-ins-choi-can-take-pride-in-this-debut\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE: INS CHOI CAN TAKE PRIDE IN THIS DEBUT - Thunderbird Entertainment<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2016\/10\/12\/kims-convenience-ins-choi-can-take-pride-in-this-debut\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KIM\u2019S CONVENIENCE: INS CHOI CAN TAKE PRIDE IN THIS DEBUT - Thunderbird Entertainment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Carolyn Potts \/ TV, Eh? 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