Shortly before the 2015 series premiere of ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat, the network sitcom loosely based on Eddie Huang’s memoir, the lawyer-turned-chef-turned-author unleashed a take-no-prisoners denouncement of the the first Asian-American family comedy on broadcast TV in more than 20 years. “That show is a lie,” Huang recalls telling its executive producer Melvin Mar, whom he calls an “Uncle Chan” in the piece.
In an interview with THR’s Lesley Goldberg, Huang proposed that the goofy, gentle sitcom hew closer to his own life by “div[ing] into domestic violence,” a childhood ordeal that he suffered at the hands of his parents.
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