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This week marked the release of the fifth and unexpectedly final season of beloved Canadian sitcom
Kim’s Convenience, which ended its run prematurely this yearafter the show’s producers said they didn’t know how to move forward after the departure of creators Ins Choi and Kevin White. Among the many fans mourning its departure, the release of this final dose of the show’s funny and humane treatment of Asian-Canadian life was greeted with a pointed response from series star Simu Liu, who hopped on Facebook to let the world know about the unhappy circumstances under which the show was first filmed, and then concluded.
Kim s Convenience star Simu Liu says overwhelmingly white producers ignored input from Asian cast Hannah Yasharoff, USA TODAY
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Upcoming Marvel star Simu Liu is expressing frustrations with the early ending of his sitcom Kim s Convenience, writing in a lengthy Facebook post Wednesday that he was disappointed the show s overwhelmingly white producers did not welcome more input from the majority Asian-Canadian cast.
Producers of the show, which stars Liu and Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as members of a Korean-Canadian family who run a corner store in Toronto, announced in March that the fifth and final season would come to an end the following month in Canada. It is streaming now on Netflix in the U.S.
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In a lengthy post on Facebook, upcoming Marvel star Simu Liu addressed the cancellation of the popular sitcom
Kim s Convenience.
The final season became available on Netflix on Wednesday. I m so incredibly saddened that we will never get to watch these characters grow, wrote the 32-year-old.
Upcoming Marvel star Simu Liu has addressed the abrupt cancellation of the popular sitcom
Kim s Convenience.
The Canadian series centres on a Korean-Canadian family who deal with customers, each other and the changing world around them. Simu played eldest son Jung, who was a rebellious teen but has since cleaned up his ways and been embraced back into the family fold.