Good Trouble’s Sherry Cola has a challenge for TV viewers: “Name another show right now that features a love story between two Asian women.” While there may be some other depiction of queer Asian women couples in American TV right now, a quick scan of couples doesn’t reveal another.
The point is that those love stories are criminally underrepresented, and the evolving romance between Cola’s Alice and her ex-girlfriend Sumi (Kara Wang) is just one of the myriad ways the Freeform series is centering Asian culture and narratives.
The most recent episode featured Alice hosting her family’s Lunar New Year celebration at the Coterie, the communal living space she manages where the central characters of Good Trouble reside.