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  2. Fierce memoir about Asian family makes fresh, sweet sitcom. Read Common Sense Media's Fresh Off the Boat review, age rating, and parents guide.

    • Constance Wu, Randall Park, Hudson Yang
    • Joyce Slaton
    • It’S Fresh
    • It’S Universal
    • It’S Specific
    • Randall Park and Constance Wu
    • It’S Very, Very Funny

    The first US network sitcom starring an Asian-American family in a worrying number of years, Fresh Off the Boat is a welcome, necessary slice of diversity in the modern TV landscape. Created by Nahnatchka Khan, it’s very loosely inspired by the life of chef Eddie Huang, whose book, Fresh Off the Boat, gives the show its title. The result is a sitco...

    Our hero is, at first, Eddie (Hudson Yang), the eldest child in the Huang family. He’s a good kid with a crush on his next door neighbour’s step-daughter, Nicole (Luna Blaise), who’s slightly older – and, at the start of Season 2, he’s anxious about making sure that he enters eighth grade with a cool story about what he did over the summer. In othe...

    Eddie’s got two brothers, Emery (Forest Wheeler), and Evan (Ian Chen), the former moving to middle school and finding himself having to deal with the lies made up by his older brother to make his life as lazy as possible. And it’s in these small details that Fresh Off the Boat wonderfully anchors its comedy: it’s rooted in a specific experience tha...

    Randall Park and Constance Wu play Eddie’s parents, Louis and Jessica, and they are absolutely the MVPs of the whole show. While Eddie was the main focus of Season 1, subsequent seasons widen the lens to feature his family more, and so we also follow Louis’s attempt to secretly have a vacation, without Jessica finding out, as she disapproves of eve...

    With several seasons under their belts, the cast are wonderfully at home in their characters, which only makes the whole thing funnier, as they chuck out one-liners, execute slapstick and trade sarcastic blows at a relentless pace. When Fresh Off the Boat is operating at full speed, the gag rate rivals that of Malcolm in the Middle in its heyday. E...

  3. Feb 5, 2015 · Here are a few reasons why you need to be watching Fresh Off the Boat immediately, if not sooner. While the series premiered on a Wednesday, it returns to its regular night and time on Tuesday at...

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    • Amanda Michelle Steiner
  4. Jul 12, 2024 · Exploring the best seasons of Fresh Off the Boat sheds light on why it remains a beloved and significant series in modern television history. From laugh-out-loud scenarios to peak '90s nostalgia to heartfelt reflections on identity and belonging, each of the six seasons offers something special, showcasing the enduring charm and importance of ...

  5. Watchlist. Based on chef Eddie Huang's best-selling memoir of the same name, "Fresh Off the Boat" takes a humorous look at the lives of immigrants in America. In the 1990s, Eddie, a...

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    • Randall Park
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  6. Apr 21, 2017 · In short, Fresh Off the Boat is an important cultural marker for Asian-Americans and features some of the most underrepresented groups in the United States. Furthermore, it’s fun to watch, engaging fans of all stripes by using the 1990s as common denominator for nostalgic Millennials like myself.

  7. Feb 4, 2015 · Fresh — another in a line of ABC shows with tough titles — is set in 1995 and follows an 11-year-old, rap-obsessed Eddie as his family moves from D.C.’s Chinatown to Orlando, Florida. His ...

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