Eddie Huang’s best selling book is now a TV show. The situational
Eddie Huang’s best selling book is now a TV show. The situational comedy show based on Eddie Huang’s best seller stars Constance Wu, Ian Chen, Hudson Yang, Randall Park and Forrest Wheeler. Fresh Off the Boat is the first Asian-American television comedy show since 1994’s “All American Girl,” which starred Margaret Cho and aired for only one season.
“Fresh Off the Boat” premiered yesterday, and it burst out of the gates with an extremely impressive 7.93 million viewers. This makes Fresh Off the Boat the second highest rated comedy premiere this season. Something that becomes even more impressive when you factor in the fact that the show features no full-blooded white American star.
In its Wikipedia page, Fresh Off the Boat takes it’s cue from Eddie Huang’s best selling memoir. The show follows the story of the Huang family as they make their way from Washington, D.C. to Orlando, Florida to open up a steak restaurant during the mid-to-late 1990s (with the first season being set between 1995 and 1997). In the show, as well as in the book, Eddie Huang’s mother struggles with the culture shock of moving to Orlando from Washington DC. Eddie and his brothers face various adventures and challenges in trying to fit in with new friends, neighbors and culture as well as having to assimilate to a new school. Meanwhile Eddie Huang’s father has wholeheartedly embraced “The American Dream.”
The show focuses on the challenges the Huang family encounters as asians in America, and how they manage to overcome them.
ABC ordered the first season of the show on May 2014 during the May 2014 upfront to air in 2015 as a mid-season replacement. This was after ABC top brass became intrigued with the potential of the show to increase its’ Asian-American audience after seeing the Fresh Off the Boat memoir rocket to the top of the bestseller lists.
So far, ” Fresh Off the Boat”has garnered positive reviews with rottentomatoes.com giving it an 88% certified fresh approval rating. Metacritic gave the show a score of 75 out of 100.
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