Eddie Huang Doesn't Watch 'Fresh Off the Boat'

He criticised the show again on Twitter.

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Eddie Huang's memoir Fresh Off the Boat has turned into a hit sitcom for ABC, but that hasn't stopped the writer and chef from voicing his frustrations about the show. Before the show even aired he wrote in New York Magazine he was already beginning to regret selling his book rights to ABC.


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?

Last night Huang took to Twitter to criticize Fresh Off the Boat once again. He says he doesn't even watch the show because it's lost touch with his original intentions. 

For good measure Huang also threw in a shot at Deadline's awful piece that argued there's now too much diversity on television. 

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