In The Disappointingly Thin 'Tigertail,' A Taiwanese Immigrant Struggles To Connect
Writer/director Alan Yang turns away from his proven track record in comedy for this "earnest, drippy" multi-generational drama that traffics in underwritten, wanly dramatized conflicts.
At a time when showrunners have been elevated to TV auteurs, Alan Yang has earned a reputation as a reliably good writer and creator of comedies for NBC and the major streaming networks. Coming up with Michael Schur (), his partner on the late, lamented baseball blog 'Fire Joe Morgan," Yang was a writer on , an experience he and Aziz Ansari parlayed into two seasons of. He also co-created the Amazon series with Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph, which deftly imagined an afterlife of suburban inertia.
