Ep. 45 - American Born Chinese
Grab your 10th-grade biology textbooks and your mystical staffs as Andrew and Presley embark on this journey to watch the gods of China try to save humanity with the help of a regular teenager.
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American Born Chinese was a Disney+ original show which aired back in 2023. The show follows high schooler Jin Wang (Ben Wang) as he begins the 10th grade. While trying to balance the normal work and home difficulties of everyday life, he is asked to help a new student get acquainted with the school, Wei-Chen (Jimmy Liu). Wei-Chen is actually the son of the Great Sage Sun Wukong (Daniel Wu), who rules over heaven. Wei-Chen, having stolen his father’s mystical staff, is on a quest to seek the mysterious 4th Scroll, an artifact of legend which contains unknown power. Guided by the goddess of Mercy (Michelle Yeoh), Wei-Chen believes that Jin is his guide to finding the scroll which will help to thwart an uprising in heaven spearheaded by the Bull Demon King (Leonard Wu). Through various incidents and scrapes, the staff is lost by Wei-Chen and ends in the hands of the Bull Demon who is intent on using it, along with the 4th scroll to end the world as we know it. Together with his friends Jin is able to lure the shape-shifting Bull Demon out of hiding during a soccer match, resulting in Jin jumping in the way of the blast what would end the earth. Miraculously unharmed, Jin is revealed to be the 4th scroll himself and the gods return to heaven. Returning home from the soccere game, Jin’s parents are missing and in his home a mysterious woman says that if he wants to see his parents unharmed again that he must go with her.