I thought I'd see a nightmare mash-up of bad stereotypes but instead I got a rather smart sitcom about growing up ethnic in the 1990s, with a surprisingly fresh hip hop sensibility. In that period memoir of the same name by chef Eddie Huang.
The bad news is this is still a network sitcom and only occasionally funny, and it's difficult to get past the father's role as Kim Jung-Un in The Interview. Still, I dug it, and it's much better than it has any right to be. If the network would let it get just a bit more edgy, this could awesome.
My wife thinks it's hilarious. I think it's cute and occasionally funny but that's all. I can't help but think that ABC, emboldened by their success with "Black-ish" figured they'd roll the dice with another ethnic family sitcom. It seems to be working. ABC's got themselves a solid Wednesday night block of family themed sitcoms.
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