The novel "Interior Chinatown" is formatted like a script, taking its title from the screenwriting convention of beginning scenes by indicating whether they take place indoors or out. Its author, Charles Yu,

Charles Yu adapted his own acclaimed novel for this Hulu series, which turns police procedurals inside out to skewer the way Asian characters have been represented onscreen.

All of that informs the fresh commentary and characterization of Charles Yu’s “Interior Chinatown,” based on his own novel of the same name. What if the people pushed into the periphery were aware of it, and how can they move organically into the main story?

An Asian American waiter named Willis gets embroiled in a mystery after witnessing a crime in Charles Yu's National Book Award-winning novel. Jimmy O. Yang stars in the new Hulu adaptation.

"Interior Chinatown," starring Jimmy O. Yang (who plays Willis), is an adaptation of Charles Yu’s satirical novel that jabs at how Asian American men have been treated by Hollywood — and in life — one trope at a time.

The "Silicon Valley" and "Crazy Rich Asians" star is the true embodiment of "background to main character energy," says series creator Charles Yu.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Willis Wu (Jimmy O. Yang, "Silicon Valley") is a waiter in a police procedural when he witnesses a kidnapping outside the restaurant where he works in New York's Chinatown. He suddenly has an epiphany — what happened to her,