‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Wasn’t Perfect, but It Was Radical in Its Own Way
The family sitcom confronted Asian American stereotypes but struggled to live up to expectations
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5 min readFeb 21, 2020
Sometime in 2015, a few months after Fresh Off the Boat premiered on ABC, one of my professors was asked by a student group to facilitate a discussion on the show. At the time, she was…