Without FreshOfftheBoat, the current Asian American boom in Hollywood wouldn't — couldn't — look like it does today, writes inkookang
, the current Asian American boom in Hollywood wouldn't — couldn't — look like it does today.
But around the fourth season, Jessica became the show's petulant brat needing growing up — a mother of three school-age children who regularly taught her life lessons. It no longer felt like a show about negotiating cultural differences and, in the best of circumstances, being able to see the faults in American culture through an Asian, racialized or immigrant lens.
Today's Asian American boom likely would have happened at one juncture or another, but it is genuinely remarkable how many Asian American projects — and how many different kinds of Asian American representation — have come out ofFresh Off the Boatbeing greenlit with nary a recognizable star, especially one like Wu, who had garnered much good will in the show's early seasons by advocating for Asian American issues off screen as well.
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