Apple’s Little America series is a heart-warming and heartbreaking collection of immigrant stories
- Each episode of the series tells the story of an immigrant to the US, looking at how they adapt and the values they bring with them
- The creators and producers talk about how they had to get involved, and what the series means to them
There is a scene in the first episode of the new Apple TV+ anthology series, Little America, where a young boy, Kabir, plays cricket with his parents in the car park of the motel they own and run. They are not in their home country of India but in Utah, their adopted home of America. Ultimately, theirs is a story of a family torn apart by arbitrary immigration laws, and heartbreaking scenes soon follow.
But it is that moment of the family together, playing cricket, that best reveals the quietly humane, generous, and ultimately hopeful spirit of the show.
While their sport of choice might be that most un-American of games, playing it together while managing their own business Kabir’s family embodies values to which America claims to aspire: kindness, the importance of family, fairness, and hard work. These are the wholesome values where “big” America might falter, but where Little America excels.
Little America is an anthology of immigrant stories, each half-hour introducing us to a new immigrant or immigrant family, trying to make a life in America uniquely their own.
