Eddie Huang wants ABC's Fresh Off the Boat to make history.
It's been said before and it will be said again: as the first sitcom about an Asian-American family in over 20 years (the last one being Margaret Cho's All-American Girl), Fresh Off The Boat is important. You'd be hard-pressed to
Considering most Tuesday comedy launches are a disaster, Fresh Off the Boat's entry into ABC's 8 p.m. hour last night wasn't too shabby. After its strong sampling last Wednesday, sandwiched around an episode of Modern Family, back-to-back episodes of
Promising midseason launch news seems rare, but ABC's Wednesday samplings of Fresh Off the Boat proved fruitful. Airing at 8:30 and 9:30 p.m., two new episodes of the comedy fetched respective 2.5 and 2.4 ratings in the
Although it's still early in the show's run, Fresh Off the Boat is already whipping out the sitcom tropes: a visit from relatives, sibling rivalry, and an old-fashioned competition between two nemeses. “Success Perm” deals with these tropes deftly, not