Kim's Convenience and Columbus
Kim's Convenience was enjoyable to watch, since I generally like watching sitcoms to turn my brain off and not really engage with any deeper thinking. This was generally pretty nice for tenth week. I don't think this show really surprised me in a lot of ways. It relied on a lot of traditional aspects of sitcoms. I think it worked well, since the convenience store serves as a contained location where different storylines can be enacted within the family realm. It did kind of bother me that a lot of the humor was based around mocking the parents and making fun of the difference between the parents and their kids. A lot of this was demonstrated by perpetually creating scenes where the parents looked out of touch or unable to connect with their kids. In some ways, it makes sense that younger audiences probably want to see representations of themselves being smarter than their parents (and I assume this show has a younger audience), but it bothered me in this show because the parent...
