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SCHUYLER SWENSON: Whenever I need a little distraction from reality, I watch reality TV. I like shows that let me turn my brain completely off —everything from Survivor reruns to low-stakes British pastry competitions. But there was one show I watched this year that caught me completely off guard and threw me into a low-grade identity crisis.
SCHUYLER: What a win for Asian America. A hot Asian guy with sex appeal who can’t do basic math? On a popular Netflix series? How refreshing. But it was Kevin’s personal background that I found, to use the parlance of our times, triggering AF.—Bling Empire clip AMY: I’m watching a show and things are happening and there’s a character. Then suddenly it’s a plot point. And I was like, I didn’t sign up for this. I just want to sit and watch and enjoy the show. And now I’m in my feels.
KEVIN KRIEDER: Like my whole life I never wanted to look for my birth parents, but now, I’m starting to care because I do think that might be a missing piece in my life. AMY: I think in the scenes where that was becoming a thing of him searching, I really rolled my eyes and was like, Of course, that’s the hero’s journey, is the search to find the family.
SCHUYLER: Yikes! The whole docuseries about Woody Allen. Big yikes! There’s also Orange Is the New Black and Grey’s Anatomy. SCHUYLER: The earliest memory I have of seeing an adopted character on TV was Arrested Development: SCHUYLER: Annyong Bluth is the adopted son of Lucille and George Bluth. He’s this caricature of a Korean adoptee. He’s got the bowl cut, doesn’t speak any English — in fact, he hardly has any speaking lines for the majority of the show.
SCHUYLER: Angela was born in Tennessee and spent a year in foster care before she was adopted by a white couple. She grew up in a small town outside of Seattle. “I think what you’re doing is so great. To open up your home to him? Honey, you’re changing that boy’s life.” SCHUYLER: The frustrating part is that’s just not how it feels to be somebody who has lost their parents, was in foster care, then adopted.
shrinkthinks It's even more surreal when you know Kevin in real life 😄 SchuylerSwenson VocalContext I understand your points on the pod, but I do think it's different when the adopted character is 'played' by someone who's adopted themselves, and in Kevin's case, is himself.
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