Whelpsy-daisy, time to follow up on this reminder:
(Reminder to self: make thread for Fresh Off The Boat)
Sypnopsis: "… _nspired by the life of chef and food personality Eddie Huang and his book Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir. It is the first American television situation comedy starring an Asian-American family as protagonists to air on network primetime since Margaret Cho's All American Girl, which aired for one season in 1994" - blatantly ripping off the wiki page because I don't feel like, and not really convenient for me atm to be, writing my own damn one.
So yeah, derogatorily I guess we can call it a "token Asian" show to placate those "unreasonable SJWs asking for more diversity in media nowadays" (the nerve!), but even if it is, its a damn funny token Asian show. I definitely admit to one of my enthusiasms in making a thread for this show, to be well… being Asian (though I'd personally consider, where I come from, that my ethnicity in my own country to be analagous to the clueless white people in this show if anything) but this show does stretch out the premise of "Asian family trying to navigate life in white suburban surroundings" to include tropes applicable to a more general audience (Aren't there people who find someone similar in Randall Park's happy-go-lucky father figure, or those who remember overbearing mother characteristics in Constance Wu's character?).
12 episodes in, and it's already joined Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Bojack Horseman, Brooklyn-Nine-Nine and a bunch of others as one of my favorite shows.
Also, speaking of Constance Wu, she's is a fucking treasure, if there is something there needs to parroted a hundred times in relation to this show:
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