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- Dad, where is the dictionary?

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- Up there.

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I got that dictionary when
I first came to this country.

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Whenever I didn't know a word,
I would look it up,

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and highlight it with a marker.

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- It doesn't look like
you learned many words.

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- The show started with
our friend Lee Eisenberg.

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- I went to
"Epic" magazine and said,

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"I want to do
an immigrant anthology series,

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and I'd love for
the stories to be real."

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- Lee came to us and said,

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"Is that something you and Emily
would want to be a part of?"

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- And cut.

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- I mean, this is the fastest
I've said yes to anything.

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What I love about the show is,
these are all true stories.

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- Kumail and I have had some
experience in taking real events

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and turning them
in to a fictional story,

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from our movie "The Big Sick."

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So I think Lee kind of
wanted that same tone.

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- From a journalist's perspective,
I had already

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been thinking about doing a series
of stories for immigrants

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to where people would
just sort of tell their stories

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in their own voices,
and so we used those

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to flesh out
what the episodes might be.

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-What?
-Excuse me. That is a superpower.

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- You go out there like that?

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- That's gonna make you famous!

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- Every woman
in Uganda can do this.

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- But, girl,
you're in Louisville, Kentucky.

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- America represents opportunity

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to so many different kinds
of people.

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- I'm gonna be a Hollywood star.

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- We worked hard to get writers

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who had some connection
to each story.

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- We just wanted to have that level
of authenticity and texture.

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So, as much as we can,

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the directors are from
the same country of origin

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as the characters
on the episode.

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- If you're making a show about
immigrants in this day and age,

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its gonna be seen as political,

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but we really wanted these
to be human stories.

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These are not stories
with any kind of agenda.

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We're trying to entertain,
first and foremost,

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but I think that's such a lovely thing
that I'm hoping that we can offer as well.

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- I'm trying.
- I'm trying.

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♪ Come on and take a journey ♪

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- Our big thing that connects
all these episodes

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is people trying to find
a sense of hope.

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You're geographical home is gone,

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and so you have to
find a home here.

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I think that's why people
will connect to this.

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- You're the concierge?
- I'm so sorry.

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- Even though they may not look like these
people, they'll feel like these people.

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♪ But I'm missin' home,
I'm missin' ♪

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- A family that wins
a free cruise.

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A guy who comes to a new place
to go to college

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- and is trying to out who he is.
- (spits)

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These aren't things that can
only happen to immigrants.

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♪ We may have seen
the world ♪

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♪ We may have seen the world ♪

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♪ But there's no place like home ♪

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♪ So go tell everyone ♪

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♪ We're coming home,
we're coming home ♪

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- It's a show about
the American dream,

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about people who have very specific,
and yet at the same time,

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very universal desires
and goals and needs.

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♪ We're coming home,
we're coming home ♪

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(laughing)

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- I think it's a tapestry
of our country

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and the collective
that creates it.

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♪ We're coming home ♪