Tales

Oh my God. Who's idea was it to cast Chet Hanks? Was it supposed to be a joke? I cringed at his every line.

I get that there is a character limit. I would like to break it now.

Awesome. Me, white guy who grew up in south east Asia. The juxtaposition just nails it irrespective of culture. Good job, remarkably well done. This is a must see, even if it doesn't support your particular polemic.

Seriously, view. It will turn you the head and entertain at the same time.

This show is stupid! It doesn't even play the song the story is about till the very end!!!

I just learned about this series by accident and was pleasantly surprised! Each story/episode is separate from the other, meaning NONE of the characters, plot, setting, or tone carries over to other episodes. There are some episodes that were corny or I didn't get. Those were mainly the ones with reality stars with bad acting. The ones that are good, ARE REALLY GOOD! Deep Cover from season 2 had nice ending twists that had me saying, "WTF!". But I like those types of shows. Now don't go off and watch Deep Cover because of me and you're looking for the plot twist, then it won't have the same effect and you might not like it. Now, I loved the 1st episode once I watched it all the way through. At first I read the episode summary and skipped around scenes and thought it's wack from my biased black person point-of-view. Then I told myself, "You're bored with nothing else to do, so have an open mind and watch it anyway." As I watched the movie, I appreciated the different perspective. When I removed my personal bias the only message I got was if someone is minding thier business and not hurting anyone or breaking laws, let them be. Don't create a situation.

The jury is out in my opinion on whether this is a good show or not; the story-line for episode one was interesting and the racial/cultural flip-flop made the story very edgy.I have not seen this perspective on story telling before and the romance aspect seemed unnecessary and did not add to the story. Adding the hip-hop culture (specifically the music) to the plot makes this show intriguing (if you are a hip-hop/rap head). The acting was okay and scene cuts could have been smoother. I will watch episode two and I will definitely know at the end of the episode if this is a good, mediocre or bad show.