‘Little America,’ the poignant new AppleTV+ anthology series from Kumail Nanjiani, tells immigrant stories with deep empathy. Alan Sepinwall’s review
has a cameo in the first episode as Laura Bush, but even that installment is much less about ideology than our innate need to connect with other people, even in hostile circumstances. Kabir lives with his parents in the small economy motel in Utah that they manage as they seek political asylum. In the opening minutes, a guest dubs him “precocious,” kicking off young Kabir’s obsession with the dictionary and learning big words.
The second episode also has an underage heroine: Marisol , daughter of an undocumented Mexican housekeeper, who signs up for a local squash league just to get free sneakers to replace her duct-taped old pair, only to discover a passion and talent for the game.
Eisenberg, Gordon, and Nanjiani team up to write the episode about the Iranian dad. The others come from an eclectic mix of less famous writers and directors — certainly, none of the others haveto star in a Marvel film — who sometimes share backgrounds in common with the characters and sometimes are just gifted at telling other people’s stories.
Each episode primarily aims to be a story unique to its central characters. But they can’t help offering thoughts along the way about the country to which every subject has moved. America is presented as a repository of dreams that sometimes lives up to them and at other times provides the same old problems in a different context.
The Oklahoma episode — a poignant ode to the power of a cowboy hat and a good pair of boots, whose final scene made my TV room as dusty as anything across the season — features a sequence where the main character attends an ESL class with fellow immigrants. The teacher asks each of them to deliver a speech beginning with the phrase “Only in America…”.
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