The second season of „Little America,“ streaming on Apple TV Plus, includes some of the most feel-good TV of 2022
The return of the half-hour anthology series Little America on Apple TV Plus has continued a trend that began two years ago, back when the show’s first season debuted as part of Apple’s launch slate of original programming right before the pandemic.
Once again, the praise from reviewers is near-universal (and justifiably so). Season 2, in fact, came right out of the gate with a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes. Moreover, you tend to see the same effusive praise over and over again in summaries of this series from showrunners Lee Eisenberg and Sian Heder as well as executive producers Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon and Alan Yang.
To anyone who’s fallen under Little America’s charming spell, the show is “heartwarming” and “feel-good” — adjectives that you find in almost every single review. Don’t mistake that for sweet and sappy, though.
There’s also loss, family schisms, heartbreak, and dreams deferred. In “Mr. Song,” a young Korean boy who’s urged to excel at school by his parents dreams instead of being an artist. In “The 9th Caller” (my personal favorite episode) a young woman from Sri Lanka competes in a radio call-in contest to win a new car from a Texas dealership.
