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This Show has Gotten Boring

posted 9 years ago by rainbowbutterfly518
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So today my family and I decided to no longer watch Fresh off the Boat mainly because it's gotten boring. At first it was a funny, witty show set in Florida in the mid to late 1990s based off a memoir of a real man's life and now it has no plot.

Season 2 started out great but then after the Christmas episode it started to go downhill and further...and further...and further. So far that the latest episode is a parody of Melrose Place. The show isn't even about Eddie anymore! If it had been about Jessica and Lewis from the start that would have been fine but it was supposed to be about Eddie Huang growing up in Florida and now the main character isn't even the main character.

My mom says the show is now the product of Whitewashing but I also think it's the product of filler episodes. Honestly all we've been getting are filler episodes! The second season and it's already run out of ideas.

What do you guys think? The show has gotten way too boring to be watchable or that it still has a chance?

[–] csjohnson33 9 years ago

It lost it's spark from season 1, for sure. I noticed that as soon as season 2 began. The show isn't boring now, though, in my opinion, it's just more similar to other shows. Not that season 1 wasn't kinda similar to The Goldbergs itself. Still funny, just a bit more low-key.

[–] McFurmingway 9 years ago

They gotta do what it takes to keep the ratings and keep the show alive.

Had they kept it real to the original to only about Eddie, the show would had been cancelled by mid-season 2 already because the ratings would had dropped even worse.

[–] Mattfinbell 9 years ago

lets hope this crap doesnt get a third season!

Look like Tarzan talk like Jane! HAHA

[–] osaji922 9 years ago

Too late lol

[–] Mattfinbell 9 years ago

osaji922
Too late lol

JESUS *beep* CHRIST

Look like Tarzan talk like Jane! HAHA

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[–] Mattfinbell 9 years ago

osaji922
Good *beep* Can't wait

yeah your not even chinese are you idiot

osaji922
Good show! Can't wait.

and you wonder why your so marginialzed

Look like Tarzan talk like Jane! HAHA

[–] osaji922 9 years ago

"yeah your not even chinese are you idiot"
Nice grammar. Tell me, who's the idiot again?

[–] osaji922 9 years ago

Good show! Can't wait.

[–] ehaas-3 9 years ago

'Jessica's Place' was one of the best so far. Eddie is my least favorite member of the family. Jessica and Louis are my favorites and I love episodes that center on them. The narration was beginning to be grating, so I'm glad it's gone.

[–] Fusion72 9 years ago

Mentioned this earlier in the season; the show is now different and feels directionless. I'm not a fan of Eddy but he gives the show focus and frames everything for the audience. They need to start building around him again.

[–] osaji922 9 years ago

I will agree that the show has yet to find its footing but to say it's boring because it no longer has no plot? It's still about a Taiwanese family in Orlando in the mid to late 90's loosely based on Eddie's memoir.

[–] ZolotoyRetriever 9 years ago

I thought the last episode, about the squatter tenants, was well-done, and could really pass as a "stand-alone" episode: even if you had never followed the show at all (and I have to admit I've watched very little of the series!) it was pretty easy to understand the plot, and the plight, of Jessica dealing with that renter situation. So it was pretty good in that sense.

Don't mess with me, man! I know karate, judo, ju-jitsu..... and several other Japanese words.

[–] straw_hat_boy_luffy 9 years ago

How does a sitcom have filler?

[–] rainbowbutterfly518 8 years ago

Episodes that don't advance the plot or let the characters grow in anyway. It's just there so that the writers can fulfill their season quota.

[–] bsharporflat-50959 8 years ago

How does a sitcom have filler?

Episodes that don't advance the plot or let the characters grow in anyway. It's just there so that the writers can fulfill their season quota.

I think you are missing the essential recipe for "sitcom". They can't "advance the plot" or "let the characters grow". This isn't a drama.

With sitcoms, everything has to end up the same as they started in each episode, more or less. That way the next episode can start anywhere it wants without being dragged down by the need for consistency with a lengthy, season-long storyline, the way a TV drama is built.

Look at all the best sit-coms in history. With only occasional exceptions, they all worked like Seinfeld- a "show about nothing". There was "no hugging" and "no learning" in that show. The characters were who they were and you could depend on that each week without worrying that you missed part of the story last week.

[–] gunnsean-83713 8 years ago

Pilot of season 3 is a total downer.