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Series description
Dang Dong is a half-hour workplace comedy in the tradition of The Office and Abbott Elementary. At the Irvine, California, headquarters of a Chinese winter apparel brand — whose name makes everyone think it’s a doorbell company — earnest expats, American skeptics, and food obsessives try to sell coats from a city where it never gets cold. The humor is warm, never punches down, and finds comedy in the universal awkwardness of cultural difference and corporate life.
Episode 2 description
Feng shui master Li Wei Ming begins his employment at the office with his Lo Pan and promptly identifies Ricky James’ office as the source of the company’s bad energy. Furniture gets moved, a money tree is installed, and the sales floor briefly becomes a spiritual renovation project. Ricky accepts it all with sarcastic grace — and almost immediately takes the quarter’s biggest coat order. Then another. Three thousand coats sold in an afternoon. The gong gets struck. A normally sleeping David Chow emerges from his office. Jimmy Wang, for once, captures it all on film. Ricky, newly emboldened, floats a bonus request. The answer is a wine glass launched at the door and screaming in Mandarin. Jimmy Wang delivers the ancient wisdom: must walk quietly around a dragon. The episode is laced with cutaway fantasies — Amy Chen terrorizing employees for See’s Candies, Ming Li’s Labubu unboxing reimagined as a black-tie gala, and Jimmy Wang’s office becomes the center of evil — that give the workday chaos a touch of the surreal.
Written by Mark Absher (USA)