dragonfivehundred Review of Fresh Off the Boat

Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020)

Humor is kind of bland, but OK other than that.

[7/10 · 14 February 2015]

I feel that some people find Fresh Off the Boat humorous due to the stereotypes. The mother with her heavy Asian accent sort of reminds me of a Mad TV or Saturday Night Live sketch. She sounds fake and over does it while her husband seems to have very little accent which I find kind of odd. The two younger brothers reminds me of Rod and Todd on the Simpsons with their innocent, brainiac personality while the older brother Eddie wants to be more rebellious sort of like Bart. The grandmother seems to be the stereotypical quiet Asian grandma with unpredictable humor. Overall, I think all the actors are fine except for the mother because of her heavy, fake, Asian accent which I find very annoying and kind of kills the show. Fresh off the Boat could've been a total success if they didn't have to talk about racial issues all the time. A lot of people aren't really comfortable with that. I read someones review that they actually toned it down from the original source material. I think because of the stereotypes, Fresh off the Boat seems unnecessarily provocative and the humor rather bland. This isn't that bad, it could've been better though.