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- Comedy Central
- Jan 21, 2020
- Comedy Central
- Jan 21, 2020
Summary 27-year-old Nora Lin (Awkwafina) seeks a grander life with help from her friends and her more accomplished cousin (Bowen Yang) while still living with her father (BD Wong) and grandmother (Lori Tan Chinn) in Queens.
Created By: Awkwafina, Teresa Hsiao
- Comedy Central
- Jan 21, 2020
- Comedy Central
- Jan 21, 2020
Summary 27-year-old Nora Lin (Awkwafina) seeks a grander life with help from her friends and her more accomplished cousin (Bowen Yang) while still living with her father (BD Wong) and grandmother (Lori Tan Chinn) in Queens.
Created By: Awkwafina, Teresa Hsiao
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 19 Critic Reviews
66
47% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
53% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
0% Negative
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Awkwafina is pretty funny in Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens. But so is the rest of the cast, and she grounds her comedy by concentrating on her family.
Nora from Queens has two things that give it its own identity: It's told from an Asian-American point of view, and its hero still lives at home with her father and grandmother.
An enjoyable episodic comedy series that is perhaps best described as a sibling of Broad City and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Despite some funny moments, the show falls into a broad category of TV comedy -- the 20-something slacker, fumbling her way through life in the big city -- that can't help but feel a little stale at this point.
Her brash, screeching shamelessness is a good fit with Comedy Central's irreverence, and she makes the most of this gig. [20 Jan - 2 Feb 2020, p.9]
The show’s presentation of itself from title on as an autobiographical look at a star about whom we’re curious elides so much of what’s pertinent about her story as to feel, episode-to-episode, somewhat monotonous. Nora’s floating approach to life has manifold real charms. It also means that the show doesn’t have any momentum, or anywhere to go. It does have Awkwafina.
This collection of wacky conundrums and underachiever gags feels like a missed opportunity — and distinctly half-realized next to her other stellar achievements of late. ... Nora needs more than meandering dialogue and a few absurd set pieces (catching her roommate’s apartment on fire, for example) to emerge from her funk as an underdeveloped character.
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