![]() Olivia Liang stars in it as Nicky Shen, a college dropout who uses her newfound martial arts skills to protect her hometown, and she’s joined by a cast largely made up of actors of Asian descent. The 2021 Kung Fu series moves the needle forward for representation in a way that the original just failed to. If you go back and stream the original Kung Fu series that aired from 1972 until 1975 (it’s available on Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, and YouTube starting at $1.99 per episode), you’ll see that the revamped show is way different in some other very important ways. The reimagination gender-swaps the lead role, and that’s just one of the key changes in the martial arts-centric reboot. While most seem to come from the ’90s and early 2000s, The CW reached back to the ’70s for its new series Kung Fu. So many TV shows these days are reboots or revivals of older shows.
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