What ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ and ‘Black-ish’ Tell You

If you love watching sitcoms. Let one of our members recommend ones to watch. They contain the life of African-American and Taiwanese-American each. If you are interested in sitcoms and how so-called immigrants have been through in the states, how about watching the two fun sitcoms "Black-ish" and "Fresh Off The Boat"?

What ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ and ‘Black-ish’ Tell You

Yunzee Kim

Graduated from Dongseo University

Broadcasting and Media Studies

             Recently, I have been crazy into two interesting sitcoms which are aired on the ABC channel. They called ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ and ‘Black-ish’ each. Two stories are very different. One story focuses on the life Taiwanese Americans who move to the town, full of white Americans in 1990’s. The other story tells about the current life of African Americans who live in the village, mainly filled with white Americans. As you know, it is not easy to live as a minority. In this type of society, where like or not, the discrimination or misunderstanding are natural. These two sitcoms describe these things in a fun way.

             ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ is based on the real story of Eddie Huang. He is a famous chef now and he has been through a lot of things since his parents are immigrant to the U.S. He wrote his autobiography and the staff of the ABC channel decided to make his story as a sitcom. It shows the traditions of Taiwanese, the fashion of 1990’s, and how they adjust to the different life. Also, Randall Park, stared as the role of ‘Jung-Eun Kim’ in the movie ‘the interview’ plays the father character in this show. Based on these things, ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ is fun to watch.

             ‘Black-ish’ is not based on the real story. Main characters, the Johnson family members, are rich African-American who live in the neighbor where there are bunch of white people. In this family, there are three generations, which are grand-parents, parents and children. It shows the current trend that as time goes by, African American’s spirit gets faded. So, grand-parents and parents are trying to do their best to give the children that spirit. However, children do not understand why they have to have that spirit and how that spirit is related to their lives. So, in this circumstances, there are some conflicts between parents and children. This sitcom describes them in a pleasure way.

              Therefore, these two sitcoms are worth watching. Also, these sitcoms show that more and more people who have different races live in the states. That is why the main characters are not only white Americans. Hopefully, more TV shows reflect racial diversity in the states.