After watching the first two episodes of ABC’s “Fresh Off The Boat”, I’ll admit that I’m interested in giving the show a shot. It depicts some instances of my childhood and I can’t wait to see more. Particularly, Constance Wu's character Jessica shoots it out of the park! I’ll even pick up Eddie Huang’s book. Admittedly some of it is diificult to watch in that maybe because it was all true?!

Here's an excerpt from Eddie Huang in an interview that was posted in the New Yorker.

I didn’t understand how network television, the one-size fits-all antithesis to Fresh Off the Boat, was going to house the voice of a futuristic chinkstronaut. I began to regret ever selling the book, because Fresh Off the Boat was a very specific narrative about SPECIFIC moments in my life, such as kneeling in a driveway holding buckets of rice overhead or seeing pink nipples for the first time. The network’s approach was to tell a universal, ambiguous, cornstarch story about Asian-Americans resembling moo goo gai pan written by a Persian-American who cut her teeth on race relations writing for Seth MacFarlane. But who is that show written for?

We are culturally destitute in America, and this is our ground zero. Network television never offered the epic tale highlighting Asian America’s coming of age; they offered to put orange chicken on TV for 22 minutes a week instead of Salisbury steak … and I’ll eat it; I’ll even thank them, because if you’re high enough, orange chicken ain’t so bad.

He's hilarious so just give it a shot. If you can believe it, it's the first Asian TV family in over 20 years!

Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir

By Eddie Huang

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Both these two shows, Eli Stone and New Amsterdam, have been part of my daily cruising the Internet for things to do. So, I end of on fox.com or abc.com and stream away the episodes that I have missed. It's a good streak too especially when you have fallen behind, but it takes up way too much time to catch up. I'm just in the middle of watching Eli Stone (on the 3rd one straight) and the last episode featured singer/songwriter, George Michael. It's pretty cool just reading about how the creator and producer is a big fan and how he incorporated the singer into his show. (Wikipedia)

Both these shows feature a cast that is just fun to watch interact. I'm loving the various plots that each episode has to offer and its just refreshing to me that writing like this is still out there. I still watch How I Met Your Mother, which by the way, had a great ending to the last episode. It featured Neil Patrick Harris blogging away at his computer like he use to do as Doogie Howser. That was just an awesome way to end his Sweet Sixteen Womanizer Story. Oh well, I should probably get back on the being productive track and get some sleep.