‘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

Wesley Yiin
GEN
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5 min readFeb 21, 2020

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SSometime 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…

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Wesley Yiin
GEN
Writer for

Wesley is an LA-based screenwriter and occasional freelancer. He has published in The Washington Post, Slate, Catapult, Salon, and Curbed.