'I was reading it to do my like due diligence, to have questions about the character, but I ended up just kind of binge reading it 'cause I was like, 'Oh my God, what?! Who did what? Who betrayed who?' I just got so into the world that I thought, if I am this excited about what's happening as a reader, it's gonna be so fun being in it as an actor.' 'Leading up to my meeting with, they sent me the first three scripts,' Liu recalls. The actor, who has previously appeared in Hacks, Dead Ringers, and American Born Chinese, relished the opportunity to appear in a comedic murder mystery. The first person accused? None other than the bride, Grace, played by Poppy Liu. So when the groom, Edgar (Zach Woods), turns up dead, fingers begin pointing. Set at a wedding, everyone is hiding something-including the seemingly happy couple. Apple TV+'s hit murder mystery, The Afterparty, returned this week with its second season, which focuses an entirely new crime.