Kung Fu reboot on the CW

[Drunk Monk]

E5 was the BLM/StopAsianHate Ep. It’s bookended by the dumb 8 weapon quest but the bulk of it is about a black kid being killed by the police and the protest following it. It’s still painfully CW, and there’s a tiny part of me that wants to say that it was pandering to the issue, but at the same time, it was good to see it represented, even if it was in that beautiful people CW way.

There’s an opening flirt fight that’s really weak. Nicki has no Kung Fu. I might forgive that if that actress had some acting chops, but she’s as cardboard as any CW actor. It’s the show’s weakest link. 

Tzi is playing a caricature of his kindly father typecast. I’m finding no character that I can relate to except maybe the villainess. And she wasn’t in this Ep.