TV Review: Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens Could Have With Me In The Bronx
Awkwafina is having a MOMENT! After years of hustle and humor, the world is picking up how talented she has always been, and Comedy Central is delivering her talent in a silver platter on Wednesdays at 10:30 pm. Instantly, Awkwafina IsNora From Queens feels like Abbi’s secret roommate from Broad City that we never met. If the show had not started a year and half after we lost our beloved broads ad opened with Nora living with her family, I could swear she belonged to that series, which is why I KNOW this show, premiering January 22, will be successful.
Similar to my Magic City Hippies review, Nora From Queens approaches a sincere dilemma SWEEPING through Millennials: entering our thirties, we still feel like we are in our teens. Jobs are unstable and fleeting, we share bathrooms with our parents and grandparents, and student loans chase us down like Dog The Bounty Hunter. Hence, I lied. We don’t feel like teenagers; we feel like the hunted or, at least, the teenagers in some dystopian, YA novel like Hunger Games. Our aimlessness and hopefulness brims through Nora’s several odd jobs, despite her talent and education, which brings the heart of this comedy.
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens – Official Trailer
Nora From Queens totally represents Gen Y & Z in colorfulness, soundtrack, and gleeful disillusion. Nora has NO business taste testing without a bank account or license nor should she be a ride-share driver while sleeping in her car without pants. Yet, you have keep on going and trying, even if you light yourself on fire or your vibrator looks like a neon-pink cactus. Hence, in a world that LOVES to talk about Generation Y & Z as superficial and tired, Nora From Queens shows that, okay, such terms could be true, but we are also funny, open, and unwaveringly optimistic while facing the burning pyre known as our dreams. Moreover, we are family-oriented.
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I LOVE Lori Tan Chinn as Nora’s grandma. She is hilarious, sweet, and full of faith in Nora and dirty humor. She reminds me of my grandma: filled with guilt trips and determined to sit near an outlet. Her bond with Nora is so pure, and only amplifies that Nora may not know what she wants from the future, beyond moving out of home, but she, at least, appreciates having a home. Her father, played by BD Wong, is a so kind and loving, which juxtaposes the snark factory that is Nora’s cousin played by the HILARIOUS Bowen Yang. Add on a cast of characters and friends that roll into Nora’s life to prom her into some superbly witty writing and physical comedy, and the exceptional Awkwafina is going to be gracing out tv screens for years to come with Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens.
