8 Best TV Series From 2020 That Totally Slipped Under The Radar

When making a show that is kind of based around yourself, you have to be careful not to totally ruin it by overplaying your own problems as detrimental, because an audience just won't care about a famous person trying to bring themselves off as unfortunate.

Awkwafina clearly knows this and nails her semi-biographical series. She plays a radically different version of herself and plays it completely bone-idle, whilst retaining what we all love about her and her sense of pseudo-gangster humour.

It also represents Chinese-American culture and shows the importance of family within the community, whilst always pushing that westernised apathy that seems to always find itself in the middle of culture clashes.

It is such a refreshing show about self-depreciation and absurdity that when Nora is on screen reacting to everything around her, you just go with it. With much of the inspiration for the show in Awkwafina's own relationship with her Grandmother, the connection between the two is great to see and allows the season to always have a base in a very real bond that permeates the show.

It must have made the right people laugh too because series 2 has been ordered, and season 1 can still be seen on the BBC iPlayer.