The only Asian-American I know who probably isn’t feeling good about this is… Fresh Off the Boat’s ostensible creator, the real-life Eddie Huang. It hasn’t been a good month for Huang. It’s a good time for minorities looking to see themselves on TV.
Two very different shows about two very different experiences.) Ken is to the striving immigrant entrepreneur Huang family as Cliff Huxtable was to the Jeffersons. (Using a very loose analogy, the second-generation professional-class Dr. Ken, the third Asian-American family sitcom in TV history, which promises to be as different from Fresh Off the Boat as, well, Ken Jeong is from Eddie Huang. Coming on the heels of Fresh Off the Boat’s renewal is the pickup of Ken Jeong’s Dr. Moreover, unlike All-American Girl, Fresh Off the Boat isn’t a single anomalous network “experiment” that will define the fate of Asian-American representation in media for a generation. We’ll get to see the fictional Eddie Huang continue to court his neighbor Nicole, watch what happens when he turns 12, and see what develops in the rivalry between Louis Huang’s Cattlemen’s Ranch restaurant and his arch-rival chain the Golden Saddle, etc. The second ever Asian-American family sitcom in TV history will not share the fate of the first ever Asian-American family sitcom in TV history, Margaret Cho’s All-American Girl-an ignominious ratings slide followed by a peremptory cancellation after one season. But Fresh Off the Boat held a special significance.
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In fact, a lot of great shows survived, including shows whose survival was seen as a kind of referendum on TV diversity: Blackish, Jane the Virgin, and Empire, as well as the whole Shonda Rhimes juggernaut ( Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder and Grey’s Anatomy). Last week, the sitcom-watching portion of Asian America finally got the news they’d been waiting for with bated breath: Fresh Off the Boat survived. This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
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