Kim’s Convenience

And how hope can resort to a sneak attack

The past 12 months, which when I look back, feels like a blur.
I mean, I can distinctively remember a few days here and there thanks to my camera recording a few events on those days, but collectively, it feels like days, weeks, and months have rolled into one long day. In this long day indoors, like most of you, I too have spent vast amounts of time entertaining myself at home, streaming movies and shows, among other things.

Since I am a bit reluctant to get started on shows, I need to have persuasive arguments with myself before I choose to watch one. I don’t typically start watching a few minutes of the first episode and decide if I should continue or not. But there were exactly two shows that I watched in the past 12 months that I didn’t need too much convincing. Both are not your typical OTT original series — but they are your classic, good old TV sitcoms which have been imported from Canada.

Schitt’s Creek and Kim’s Convenience.

If you haven’t watched either, they both are available on Netflix. While all seasons of Schitt’s Creek are out, Netflix doesn’t have Kim’s Convenience’s final season as yet.

Kim’s Convenience is a show about an immigrant family that owns a convenience store in Toronto. The parents (Mr…