'Interior Chinatown' Spotlights One of the Procedural Genre's Biggest Problems

Hulu’s new original series, Interior Chinatown, is a captivating missing-person mystery woven into a nostalgic mockery of crime procedurals. Based on series creator Charles Yu’s groundbreaking novel of the same name, the series gives a bit of new life to The Truman Show’s trope of characters recognizing that they’re in some sort of program, which, in this case, happens to be a cop show. And in doing so, Interior Chinatown addresses one of the genre’s biggest gimmicks: the world revolves around the stars.