Little America is a new Apple TV+ series which has a hand in from The Big Sick‘s Kumail Nanjiani and is a series of eight individual tales about immigrants in America, all based on true stories, albeit with some fictionalisation thrown in, such is the way that TV drama works.

The first one, The Manager, which is set in the time of the George Bush Sr Presidential administration, centres on Kabir (Ishan Gandhi, and later, Eshan Inamdar), the young son of a couple who runs a motel, and his inquisitive nature leads him to look up the word precocious after someone calls him that word. On asking his Dad, he’d told how he used the check out dictionary to learn new words and then he’d highlight it with a marker, causing Kabir to remark sarcastically, “Doesn’t look like you learned many words(!)”