'Nora From Queens' Is, And Is Not, Awkwafina
Awkwafina's career has ranged from rap to Crazy Rich Asians to a Golden Globe for The Farewell. Now, she's putting down a lot of her old habits in a new Comedy Central series.
The new Comedy Central series officially called uses the shorter title in its own animated graphics. This isn't a critical distinction, maybe, but it matches the show's interesting relationship with the space between Nora Lum, the actress/rapper who stars in the semi-autobiographical story; Nora Lin, the lightly fictionalized version of herself she plays here; and Awkwafina, the persona she's inhabited since she was a young rapper, all thefor which she won a Golden Globe a couple of weeks ago. On one hand, as a marketing decision, it makes sense to incorporate the famous name of a famous person in the show she created for herself.
