Variety reports that Fresh Off The Boat star Constance Wu is in talks to star in a film adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s book Crazy Rich Asians. Kwan’s book—published in 2013—tells the story of three individuals navigating the world of hyper-rich families living in modern-day Singapore.

One of the bigger controversies of this year’s awards season has been the way Birth Of A Nation completely collapsed after old rape allegations resurfaced against director and star Nate Parker while similar allegations against Manchester By The Sea star Casey Affleck failed to make any impact on his awards chances.…

Even though the season-two finale of Fresh Off The Boat made it almost certain that the Huangs would be traveling to their native Taiwan, the journey still feels like a big deal. For one, the season-three premiere marks the first time that any American network television show—sitcom or otherwise—has been filmed in the…

After its trailer popped up online yesterday, it took roughly zero seconds for people to start pointing out the unfortunate implications inherent to Hero director Zhang Yimou’s new movie The Great Wall, which sees an ancient Chinese empire drawing upon its greatest natural resource—whitebread mercenary hero Matt…

Since their seasons tend to be so long, most network sitcoms end up recycling plot devices at a certain point in their run. But Fresh Off The Boat’s doing it earlier than usual by essentially repeating the central concept of “Success Perm,” an episode that aired a little over a year ago. Both installments deal with…

Earlier this month, a 25-year-old digital media strategist named William Yu launched a site called Starring John Cho. The site, which is meant to protest the whitewashing of Asian characters in Hollywood movies, photoshops Harold & Kumar star and new Sulu John Cho into movie posters, making him the leading man. We…

“The Manchurian Dinner Date” sets up an explosive confrontation between Eddie and Jessica, only to resolve their conflict with a satisfied sigh. To the writers’ credit, it’s an unexpected move when considering the forcefulness of Jessica’s personality. She spends the entire episode gushing over Eddie’s (fake)…

While convincing “Corey the video rental guy” that he’s a connoisseur of fine films au cinéma, Louis learns someone from the family has been making mysterious movie rentals on his card. Puzzled, he searches the house. Nothing in the kid’s room (except a troubling picture of Jessica under Evan’s pillow), nothing in…

I’ve heard several people complain that, in its second season, Fresh Off The Boat hasn’t explored the Huangs’ Chinese heritage as much as it did in its first season; that the show has become less about being Asian-American and more about being a generic ABC sitcom. I respectfully disagree. While there’s no point in…

Juliet (you know the one) once asked “What’s in a name?” Of course, she then also immediately asks Romeo to change his name (as if that would’ve solved all their problems?) because Juliet knew that names carry meaning for ourselves and those around us, whether we like it or not. “Hi, My Name Is…” attempts to answer…

All the way back in “The Shunning,” Fresh Off the Boat cherrypicked a handful of Stephen King motifs to elevate its main storyline, a fairly commonplace thread about Honey being ostracized by the other women in the neighborhood. It was an early example of the show proving its adeptness with pop culture, coloring the…

A running theme this season on Fresh Off The Boat has been the Huang children wanting to be taken more seriously by their elders. This reached an apex last week in “Doing It Right,” where Eddie split off from his father during a chili cook-off to come up with his own recipe. Evan, also experiencing feelings of…

I believe it was Mark Twain who wrote, in the twilight years of his long life, “The meter of a truly great TV episode is marked by the viewer yelling from the couch: ‘Now we’re cookin’ with fire! Wooo-ey this is some good TV!’” A wise man; true words. As relevant the day he wrote them as last night, when my roommate…

Absurdly specific in 90s detail, “Michael Change Fever,” is a simple and delightful episode. Forgive me, for being physically born of the 90s, my cultural knowledge of the decade comprises of old toys and games left over from older siblings, trends my parents were a little late on, and TV reruns. So, with that…

Like the mixtapes Eddie erroneously crafts, this weeks Fresh Off The Boat plays like a smooth, greatest hits playlist of the show. There’s deep 90s cuts, a parent assembly, an Eddie/Emery story, and some, well some just really crazy funny work by child actors. It’s a packed one, but whereas last week’s episode…

Of any network sitcom currently on the air, Fresh Off The Boat may have produced the most holiday episodes this season. So far, the series has tackled Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chinese New Year, and, if we’re bending the rules a bit, Eddie’s twelfth birthday. This makes sense, given the show’s frequent…

It’s February, and we all know what that means: President’s Day has finally arrived! Oh, and also the Chinese New Yea– a coincidence which gets reiterated again and again throughout Fresh Off The Boat’s first episode back from hiatus. It may be a case of holiday episode fatigue, but tonight’s “Year Of The Rat” feels…

For the past year or so, The A.V. Club has used its 11 Questions feature to ask celebrities about their first jobs and worst living situations. Part of that feature—the 12th question—also asked the interviewee to come up with a question for the next interview subject without generally knowing who they were. Those 12th…

Fresh Off The Boat presents (heyoo!) us with a perfectly packaged (heyoox2!) Christmas episode. I won’t lie: When it comes to Christmas episodes, I have an icicle sized chip on my shoulder. There are only so many gift-and-Santa-based plot lines to be had in this world of finite possibility. So when a show manages to…

Ah, the awkward musician cameo on a network sitcom. It was only a matter of time before Fresh Off The Boat went there. Unfortunately, from the moment Eddie arrives at the door of DMX’s McMansion, the gruff rapper, like so many guest-star musicians on so many other shows before him, serves as a little more than a…