Courtesy of CBC Season 1, Episode 12: Appa’s LumpĬhoi’s play was a drama before it became a sitcom, so this episode is a handy reminder that the material can handle a little darkness – and that the cast is more than capable of handling it. (It’s since become apparent that the writers’ failure to explore that culture more fully was a point of considerable stress for the cast on multiple occasions, which means a lot of these episodes arrive with an asterisk.) It’s also legitimately funny to see Simu Liu and Andrew Phung play the increasing frustration of Jung and Kimchee good-naturedly trying to explain the “Korean wedgie” to their uncomprehending co-workers. But episode three – in which Jung and Kimchee’s not entirely mature relationship leads to a work prank that reads as sexual assault to Nicole Power’s justifiably horrified Shannon – is the first one that tells us the Kims’ ethnicity and culture is going to be a factor in the show. The show’s pilot established its premise (and mined the stage play for plot points), and the second episode started to spread the storylines among the characters. Courtesy of CBC Season 1, Episode 3: Ddong Chim
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The complete series is available to stream for free on CBC Gem the first four seasons are also streaming on Netflix Canada. Here are the best episodes of Kim’s Convenience in chronological order. They can – and should – be proud of what they did with the time they had.
(We picked 13 in total – the same number as in each season of the show.) It’s necessary to acknowledge the circumstances under which they were produced, but we can also celebrate what the cast accomplished. That leaves us in kind of a weird place when it comes to assembling this guide to the best episodes of Kim’s Convenience. In June, Simu Liu and Jean Yoon went public with their specific frustrations not just with the cancellation but the way the show was produced, speaking about producers and writers indifferent to their perspective and the dearth of Korean talent behind the scenes.
Most of the cast members have shared their feelings about the way the show ended: Paul Sun-Hyung Lee made an emotional Instagram post within a day of the news breaking in March, and subsequently discussed the series’ collapse with co-star Andrew Phung in an interview with the Calgary Herald. A sixth season had been ordered by CBC, but production company Thunderbird chose to shut the show down after the departure of co-creator and showrunner Ins Choi. The final episode of Kim’s Convenience’s fifth season wasn’t supposed to be the end of it all.
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