'Master of None' co-creator alanyang makes his feature directorial debut for Netflix with an immigration story loosely based on his father's life. Read inkookang's review of Tigertail:
such a disappointment, but the many promising elements within the somber but yearning drama itself. Ifposited immigration as a chronic open wound, with Awkwafina's Billie thousands of miles away from her dying grandmother and unable to tell her the truth about her health,, with its male protagonist's learned hardness, could've made for a worthy companion piece.
In his distractingly austere home — a character detail that feels more like a reflection of the production budget, as well as of the general neglect of visual interest — the divorced Grover struggles to reconnect with his adult daughter, Angela , while recalling the love of his life, Yuan , whom he left behind to pursue his dream of going to Americais most compelling in the scenes between Fang and the smolderingly charismatic Lee, as Yuan and GroverBut Grover doesn't let himself take his...
Grover hopes to make enough money in America so his mother can retire, but it's not entirely clear why else he wishes for such a drastic life change. And though his move to the U.S. is entirely dependent on his boss, whose daughter Zhenzhen he weds as his ticket to New York, the dynamics of their marriage seem barely informed by that power dynamic.
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