‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Addresses the GOP Assault on DACA
The writers of the ABC sitcom find that 'what's happening now is all very personal for us.'
Immigrants founded Hollywood (Eastern Europeans named Mayer and Zukor and Laemmle), but you can count the TV shows about them on two hands—and for a long time, not even on one hand. At the dawn of TV, you had a Cuban named Ricky on . Then decades of white suburban families named Bunker and Brady and Bundy. Occasionally, a black family would bust through the Caucasian clutter—the Evans family of , the Jeffersons, the Huxtables, the Johnsons of —but immigrants? It wasn’t until 1994 that a show was built starred Margaret Cho as the daughter of Korean-born parents. It lasted one season. show, which began in 2002, hung around for six.
