K-TOWN Part 1- “Asian B- Are Supposed to be Skinny!”

Oh, K-TOWN. A little background, K-TOWN is a reality show that premiered in July of 2012 and was running on LOUD’s YouTube channel. The show is about a group of 8 Asian American 20-somethings and their adventures in nightlife in Koreatown, Los Angeles. A little more background, this show is a flaming pile of trash. There’s the typical reality show group of “friends”; “actors” and “actresses” rounded up to pretend to have wild, chummy history- the producers just vainly scraping at the bottom of the Jersey Shore barrel. The title sequence of the show even has a qualifier for each person, such as “Scarlet, The Troublemaker” and “Jowe, The Heartbreaker” because otherwise, audiences for sure would not be able to distinguish between the “stars”, what with their glaring lack of personality and amorphous character traits. K-TOWN is all about the Koreatown nightlife, but more importantly it has chronicled 1. The fight at the bar 2. The fight at the karaoke room 3. The fight with the go-go dancer pre-club night. 

Asian American Women Portrayed in Pitch Perfect AKA I Am So Disappointed

       

I settled down to watch Pitch Perfect about two months ago. A little late in the game, I know, but this was a feel-good, sugary movie that I felt I needed to ease the pain of finals and papers. It looked so right, what with the college acapella and the Spring Awakening love of my life Skylar Astin as the male lead. And it is, objectively, a fun and easy film. But as minutes rolled by, I found myself increasingly let down and so incredibly disappointed at the depiction of the only two Asian American women in the film.