'Fresh Off the Boat' is an American comedy series on ABC. The show is about a Chinese family pursuing the American Dream and how its members deal with culture shock. Episode eleven, "Very Superstitious" airs on Tuesday, April 7, 2015 at 8|7c.
The Huangs, a Chinese-immigrant family move to Orlando, Florida in 1995. Father Louis Huang starts a steak restaurant business, while mother Jessica Huang raises her sons and attempts to make new friends in the neighborhood. Their three sons are Eddie, Emery, and Evan. The sons do their best to fit in at school.
In the latest episode, "Very Supersititious," Eddie, Emery, and Evan all receive straight A's at school. Instead of praising her smart children, strict asian mother Jessica decides that the boys' school standards are too low. Jessica decides to cram her sons with more schooling at home, giving them extra homework and tutoring lessons. All the while, father Louis tries to get Jessica to lighten up on the sons and on the strict restaurant policies of not serving extra croutons to customers.
"Fresh Off the Boat' stars Randall Park as Louis, Constance Wu as Jessica, Hudson Yang as Eddie, Forrest Wheeler as Emery, and Ian Chen as Evan. Kourtney Kang wrote the script for ep. eleven and Max Winkler directed it.
The show has a Metascore of 75 based on 28 critics and a 7.1 User Score based on 58 ratings on the review website Metacritic. On the rating site Rotten Tomatoes, 'Fresh Off the Boat' is 90% on the Tomatometer and has a 87% Audience Score. The average rating out of 41 reviews is 6.9/10 and the average rating out of 452 ratings is 4.2/5.
"Yes, the show comes with a message, expressed by narrator Huang: "You don't have to pretend to be someone else in order to belong." In the process, it also happens to be funny," said top critic Frazier Moore from the Associated Press.
Ep. twelve, "Dribbling Tiger, Bounce Pass Dragon" airs on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at 8|7c.
'Fresh Off the Boat' is based on the book, "Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir," written by chef Eddie Huang. Huang is the owner of Manhattan sandwich shop, BaoHaus. He was the host of the Cooking Channel's 'Cheap Bites" in 2011 and currently hosts Vice's food and travel show, 'Huang's World.'
