Ronny Chieng: International Student

I really wanted to like this comedy. I watched every episode except for the pilot. So I may have been missing some plot elements. The comedy is about a Malaysian student studying law at Melbourne University. He lives in a house with other international students and one American. Although termed International, it's really all Asians except for one American.

Overall, I thought the writing, directing and acting were all sub par. The titular character is just not funny, it seems like he's got a stick up his ass at all times. He complains 90% of the time and other 10% of the time he's trying too hard to be funny.

As for the dialogue, I feel like sometimes they thrown in a bunch of cuss words just to try to be funny. The comedic timing is off in many of their scenes. It feels awkward.

As for the title of the show, they should've just called him International Law Student considering that pretty much all of the student characters are in the law school.

This show has potential, but the directing, the writing, and the acting must improve. Especially for the main character. In fact I think they should use a different actor for Ronny Chieng.

Wow, another amazing Australian show my fellow Americans will probably never hear about (Maximum Choppage anyone?) - hilarious look at college from the viewpoint of an Asian character with all the best stereotypes from our days in college - the crazy studious ones, the nerds, the partyer, etc. Some killer dialogue/lines (remember to roll it all the way down the shaft!), I really hope this show gets multiple seasons so we can enjoy Ronny's epic adventures in law school. Now I'm off to reverse engineer some cold tablets, see you soon!

First 3 episodes are fantastic ,, not sure about the rest of the shows

I had watched about 7 episodes or more and then there wasn't any more( on Youtube). I watched about half an episode last week and wasn't into it. Last night I watched all the episodes( I guess) and really enjoyed it. I really liked the episode where the American guy comes to stay in their dorm. These angsty teenage Ozzy shows are my faves I wish there were more seasons. Before this I found a similar funny but American show( done so Australian) Dorm life ( with like 7-10 min episodes) that I really liked. I'll go back to that tonight. Any ways overall I really quite liked this,.

As a half Malaysian myself, I can say that Ronnie clearly is the typical stereotype which bodes well with the comedic aspect of this show surrounding university life. He reminds me of Donald Duck, always annoyed and easily triggered by something. I don't think I ever saw him smile or laugh in all 7 episodes of the first season, I mean let's face it, in reality no one is ever going to want to hang out with someone who is quite the overly opinionated, mood dampener. The writing and comedic gags are clever. Ronnie's on screen mom is brilliant. Great acting and interesting storylines. Elvin steals the show bahaha.

Smile Ronnie...life ain't so bad [^_^]