Hulu has released the first trailer for Interior Chinatown. The limited series is an adaptation of Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name and stars Jimmy O. Yang, a mild-mannered waiter who is tired of feeling like the background character of his own story. But his life is turned upside down when he becomes the main character after witnessing a crime that’s connected to a high-profile case.

The trailer opens with Willis wanting more out of life than being a waiter in Chinatown. According to him, nothing ever changes, and nothing exciting happens. When he says he feels like a background character of his own story, Ronnie Chieng’s Fatty Choi tells him that feeling is called “being a loser.”

After setting up the characters, the trailer focuses on the main plot, revealing Chloe Bennet’s Detective Lana Lee at a press conference discussing a recent murder that is connected to a gang war. While Fatty asks Willis who she is, the discussion then breaks out into what Asian Lana is, with Fatty telling his fellow back-of-the-house worker that he should know his Asians.

The drama then increases when Detective Lee appears at the same restaurant Willis works at. She needs his help since he knows Chinatown better than her. Of course, there’s more to it than that as the working relationship becomes a bit more complicated and Willis’s brother has a connection to the case.

Since Interior Chinatown has that Hollywood feel to it and its set in one of the most iconic district of any non-Asian town, you can expect to see spontaneous kung-fu fights, and maybe a musical moment. Maybe even some film noir. Based on the cast alone, there’s going to be plenty of comedy.

The series also stars Lisa Gilroy, Sullivan Jones, Archie Kao, Diana Lin, and Tzi Ma.

All ten episodes of Interior Chinatown drop on Hulu on November 19, 2024.

Here’s the official plot synopsis for Interior Chinatown:

Based on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called “Black & White.” Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown and aspiring to be the lead of his own story. When Willis inadvertently becomes a witness to a crime, he begins to unravel a criminal web in Chinatown, while discovering his own family’s buried history and what it feels like to be in the spotlight.