Barry0169 Just watched an episode of this show (wanted to see George Takei) and I see I haven't missed anything. The acting is wooden, the jokes are not anywhere near funny, it's just a mess of a show. Diversity is important, but it's got to be interesting or entertaining enough to make viewers want to return. I won't be returning.

ultradragonking25 I saw previews for the show and a little bit at the end for the next show. I never really thought I was going to like it. I then found it on Hulu and started to watch it for the first time. It is awesome. There is awesome references to the 90's. At one point they even has crystal Pepsi. It has cultural ties, but love Randall Parks father character. Not many happy Asian male roles and he does awesome. The part about his father being a hard man and a hard worker speaks volumes. It also has the American dream and a guy taking risks. The story is good, the comedy is original, and relationships are fantastic. I would suggest this show to anyone.

piercejeans Imagine a show about black slaves in the old South around the time of the Civil War in America. Now imagine the theme of the show and the interludes and transitions of the show being done in traditional Chinese and Japanese music and instruments. About the same amount of WTF disconnect.That's right... there's a sweating, poor, beaten, hard working black family in the old American south, and the transitions are done on strings, woodblocks, and flutes... played softly and slowly. Yeah... makes a lot of sense. But, when you have a white girl, a white guy, and one Chinese guy producing a show about a Chinese family... and they are in their forties... post Vietnam American born children... of course the music you CHOOSE for the show and its theme is angry rapper black "music"... suitable for the race riots of the 1960's and hate and gutter lyrics of the 90's. Unfit for American television. Greenlighted on ABC by a black woman with an agenda. I am surprised that the show is allowed to have an entire Chinese cast. After all... nothing else is authentic. The plots could be used in any American sitcom of the last forty years. Nothing new here. Unwatchable junk.

falconcruzer-683-464008 I've just finished watching episode 14(S02) of this show "Fresh Off the Boat"–this is by far the best one of the season. It featured the mother being driven to get her son to become a doctor and discovers he's got tennis skills and happily channels her maniacal obsession to excellence to that– this is arch-typical of Asian mothers. I can see why the producers had the dad be a generic American dad (in personality) to offset the mother, otherwise it can be too over-the-top. It's typically Asian while any family can relate to it too.Cameo appearance by Billie Jean King, a tennis legend, to throw a McEnroe-esque temper tantrum when she gets fired by the mom was an absolute gem of a scene. The reference to Michael Chang of the 90's being the sole Asian sports star harks back to more recent times to the Linsanity craze in recent years. If FOTB keep to this formula, I can't see why it can't maintain a good following for many years.