Page 12 of The Sitcom Star
Eva Manners as Debra, a talkative neighbor of the Chus.Always getting on Lindy’s nerves.
Rocky Elliot as Timothy, Debra’s slightly less talkative husband.
Connor Lucas Bolt as a fictionalized version of himself, an NHL player who returns to his hometown after retiring from professional hockey.
The Asian Canadian Himbo
Thephrase“hitCanadiansitcom” would have once been used only as a joke.But thanks to shows likeSchitt’s Creek,Kim’s Convenience, andChu’s Restaurant, that’s no longer true.
Chu’s Restaurantwas a success in Canada in its first season, and its charm—and audience—grew even more in the second.
Part of that is definitely due to Maxwell Kim, played by Ethan Park.
In the first season, Waverly—and yes, she was named for a character inThe Joy Luck Club, as addressed in Season 1, Episode 4—divorces her lying, cheating husband.She later has a love interest in the form of Clint Montgomery.Clint owns a cottage near the small town of Frankfurt, and he proposes to Waverly, offering to take her to New York.
In a touching season finale, Waverly turns him down and decides to stay with her family in Frankfurt, Ontario, the small town to which she’d once vowed never to return.
The second season begins with Max’s arrival in Frankfurt after the failure of his hot sauce business.Not surprising, given his complete lack of common sense and business acumen.
But what he lacks in brains, he makes up for in charm and, well, looks.
Unknown to most Canadians before his role inChu’s Restaurant, Ethan Park now has a group of very loyal fans, who are thrilled by the recent announcement that he’s been added to the main cast for the third season.A tweet about how he should star in a rom-com went viral last week, the day after I, coincidentally, talked to him about how he became a heartthrob and which hair products he uses.(Yes, he spills the details!)
—Rosalind O,YYZist
Chapter 4
@eleanoraomg: Maddie Ng and Ethan Park are SO cute together.I hope they become a couple in real life, like Hyun Bin and Son Ye-Jin.
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Maddie stood outside Union Station, large sunglasses on her face, as she waited for Adrian.It was a bright, sunny day, and she was clad in shorts and a tank top, sunscreen on her exposed skin.
This was a small thing, right?Just spending the day with someone.No need to overthink it; it didn’tmeananything.
Well, she supposed it did.It meant she was tired of her method of taking time off, which involved making a list of random things in the morning and crossing them off as she did them.Yesterday she had, indeed, tried two different reality dating shows, and it turned out that they really weren’t her thing.No shame to anyone who enjoyed them, but…no.She’d also attempted to bake bread, which apparently some people did for fun.
There’d been one item on her list that she hadn’t crossed off:Get high.She’d been too chickenshit to go to one of the many cannabis dispensaries that had popped up around the city in the last couple of years and buy gummies, perhaps owing to her harrowing experience with “special” cupcakes at a summer theater festival many years ago.
So today, she was doing something different.Letting someone else take the reins, even if that was a little terrifying.She had only one thing on her list:Hang out with Adrian.
Who was now five minutes late.
It was only five minutes, but that was enough to make her second-guess her decision.She could have wandered the city by herself or watched a movie or—
“Hey.”
