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keliain
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Fresh Off the Boat (2015)
Not very Asian, and not funny
29 November 2016 - 15 out of 32 users found this review helpful.
As an Asian immigrant, the title is misleading. The show is awful.
I found this show to be very American sit-com in style/format with very American jokes that may well have been played by a bunch of locally born people. There is little in the material that indicates an understanding of the Asian migrant experience.
As a comparison, take a look at The Family Law http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4683342/
The casting is also rather poor. What sort of FOB migrants would have strong American accents like these actors? Their mannerisms and physical banter are all reflective of second, third and later generations; no FOB migrant would use any of them.
I guess this series fails because the writers are not familiar with new Asian migrant families.
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