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Room emma5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It takes a lot to build a show around a character who feels stuck without making everything around her feel stagnant. ‘American Born Chinese’ Review: A Sweet Teen Odyssey with Killer Moves Carrie’s able-to-rewind-time boyfriend Kash (Bilal Hasna) is also a steady presence, when he’s not off trying to assemble a misfit band of vigilante crimefighters. ![]() When she’s not gripped by anxiety about being the only “normal” adult she knows, she spends a good chunk amount of time with roommate Carrie (Sofia Oxenham), who can channel the dead to speak through her. She’s romantically frustrated, treading water at her retail gig, and staring down the last of her mid-20s with not a lot to show for them. ![]() There are people who can scale walls, walk through walls, fly above walls, lift up walls, or do other fantastical things that don’t involve walls.Īfter more than a handful of years past the mark when people get their power, Jen (Máiréad Tyers) is still waiting for hers. It’s a new comedy that takes place in a world where pretty much everyone has a superpower. The first season of the show (on Hulu or Disney+, depending on where you’re reading this) spans eight episodes, and each contains the kind of possibility that could make them standalones. “ Extraordinary” could have been an anthology. ![]()
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