Fresh Off the Boat: Season 1 - TV Reviews (2024)

If you are a fellow binger, looking for something light-hearted family-driven sitcom, this underseen treat may just do the trick.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2024

Fresh Off The Boat feels promising with its 90s nostalgia, hip-hop references, and even the takes on cringey Asian stereotypes of Tiger parenting didn't feel hackneyed to me.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2021

Fresh Off the Boat shows promise as 2015's first watchable new comedy, a combination of clever and poignant that would really rock, with a few tweaks and twists here or there.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2020

For a network sitcom pilot, it's good and has potential, particularly in its strong cast. But it definitely feels "cornstarch" and like "pasteurized network television," the kind of show that fits perfectly next to Modern Family.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2020

FOB presents a rather strikingly accurate depiction of modern Asian-American life.

Full Review | Jul 3, 2019

Constance Wu and Randall Park could make any project sing, but Fresh Off the Boat matches their talent with witty, heartfelt writing.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2018

Half charming and half cringe-worthy, the humor is a mix of Asian references and just plain broad humor with nostalgic touches.

Full Review | Sep 14, 2018

These are the kind of details that ring true not just to people who grew up in the same kinds of families as Eddie Huang, but also to those of us who didn't, and who enjoy getting a glimpse into someone else's world.

Full Review | Sep 13, 2018

While this is Eddie's story and memoir, the show's most incisive moments come when the focus shifts to his mother... [Constance Wu's] in command of these jokes in a way that doesn't lampoon her character.

Full Review | Sep 13, 2018

Fresh off the Boat has soul, flavor and an incredible cast. Time will tell if the comedy finds the audience it richly deserves.

Full Review | Aug 7, 2018

The genius of Fresh Off the Boat is that it is a traditional sitcom - with a stealth bomb of social observation buried at its core.

Full Review | Aug 3, 2017

Constance Wu is poised to be the breakout character as she gets all the good lines and delivers them with panache.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 4, 2015

All in all, it's a promising start. It's not always potent, but there are plenty of great jokes here.

Full Review | Nov 4, 2015

Fresh Off the Boat, when it has flashes of energy and well-written jokes, easily transcends ethnic stereotypes, but it's these sitcom stereotypes that are the ones the show needs to defeat if it wants to be both long-running and distinctive.

Full Review | Mar 12, 2015

Fresh Off the Boat is unlikely to dismantle the master's house. But it opens a door.

Full Review | Mar 4, 2015

With barbed and very broad humor, Boat feels right at home on a network that has found mass appeal in racial inclusiveness, whether in this fall's breakout comedy black-ish or in Shonda Rhimes's groundbreaking color-blind guilty pleasures.

Full Review | Feb 23, 2015

Fresh Off the Boat is still trying to figure out what it wants to be, but by the time it gets there it will be something totally original.

Full Review | Feb 12, 2015

Watered-down or not, the immigrant/culture clash storylines are the freshest things about "Fresh Off the Boat."

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 6, 2015

The jokes feel warm and lived-in, and often have a pleasantly absurd twist.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 6, 2015

It's TV history in the making.

Full Review | Feb 5, 2015