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So far, Fresh Off the Boat has been really funny. With B-99 on some kind of sweeps related hiatus and Parks and Rec over, it's the only sitcom I'm watching. They use the limited acting range of their child actors in smart, measured ways. They milk Constance Wu's comic timing for everything it's worth. They do great work with all the dramatic irony of the retro setting. They drop brilliant and daring one liners and trust that they'll hit ("Superstition is like racism. Every generation is a little better than the one before"). In a way, that is the problem with the show. The only show in twenty years to center a Asian-American family, and it is really, really good. It lets the networks say "See, if the quality is there, we will show diverse content." The same networks regularly air colossally unfunny shows about white families.

I wonder if a useful way to quantify diversity may be with Sturgeon's Law: When 90% of the content about a group is crud, we no longer have a diversity problem.


Also, I would like to register my protest that Agents of SHIELD went from "Melinda", easily the best episode of the second season (p.s. sanguinity, if you're ever going to watch an episode of AoS, this is the one to watch. Ming Na's acting range is stunning.), to the one with 'frenemy' in the episode title, wherein Coulson decides to ally with Ward for no particularly clear reason except to give Admiral Adama more proof that Coulson's a maniac. NO. DON'T TEAM UP WITH WARD.

I remain highly curious of how Age of Ultron will affect the show. Tickets for that are already purchased. :D