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Apr 1, 2024 · Shows like ABC's Fresh Off the Boat offer a glimpse in the lives of a Taiwanese family as they emigrate to the US and make their way across the East Coast to open a restaurant. Other series like Quantico star Asian Americans as their leads, including the ever-popular Priyanka Chopra.
- 10 ‘All-American Girl’
- 9 ‘Andi Mack’
- 8 ‘Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens’
- 7 ‘Wu Assassins’
- 6 ‘Nikita’
- 5 ‘The Mindy Project’
- 4 ‘Never Have I Ever’
- 3 ‘Master of None’
- 2 ‘Fresh Off The Boat’
- 1 ‘Pen15’
All-American Girl follows Margaret (Margaret Cho), a Korean American girl who struggles with her identity. She is the rebellious offspring of Korean American bookstore owners in San Francisco, whose American outlook frequently clashes with that of her more conventional parents. Despite some issues with how it represented the culture, the program wa...
Andi Mack is a Disney Channel TV show that starsPeyton Elizabeth Lee in the title role. Andi Mack, a seventh-grader in middle school, is 13 years old and has just learned an important secret the woman she believes to be her sister (Lilan Bowden) turns out to be her mother. Andi Mackis one of the first shows to portray an Asian American family as pu...
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens centers on Nora Lin (Awkwafina), a 20-something Queens resident who aspires to lead an extraordinary life. Nora relies on her family as she traverses young adulthood in New York City after being raised alongside her cousin by her dad and grandmother. The focus ofAwkwafina is Nora from Queenswas on parent-child relation...
Wu Assassins follows a young Chinatown chef Kai Jin (Iko Uwais), entangled in the Chinese Triad's hunt for dangerous ancient forces known as the "Wu Xing" in modern-day San Francisco. After coming into contact with a supernatural being, Kai reluctantly assumes the identity of the Wu Assassin, endowed with the prowess and might of 1,000 monks who ch...
Nikita follows the titular character, played by Maggie Q, a woman who defected from the covert government-funded organization known as "Division" and returned after three years in hiding to bring the group to justice. Underneath the thrilling and action-packed scenes, the program examines an Asian American woman's journey of self-discovery as she n...
The Mindy Project is set in a small medical office in New York City; the series follows obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri (Mindy Kaling) as she struggles to combine her personal and professional lives. The focus of the show is an Indian American woman, but it does not delve into her Indianness; instead, it investigates how she embraces her Ame...
Never Have I Ever was created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, and it follows Devi Vishwakumar (Maitreyi Ramakrishnan), a 15-year-old Indian American Tamil girl who is coping with her father’s unexpected death. She also has issues with her social life at school since, despite her desire to climb the social food chain, her mental health and circumst...
Master of None, which is set in New York City, chronicles the life of Dev, played by Aziz Ansari, a single Indian American who spends a lot of time looking for a girlfriend and pursuing a career as an actor. By offering Asian characters rich plots and challenging character arcs, the show battles stereotypes against Asian American people. Additional...
Fresh Off the Boat is set between the years 1995 and 2000 and follows the Huangs (the Mandarin counterpart of Wong), a Taiwanese American family consisting of parents Louis (Randall Park) and Jessica (Constance Wu) and their children. The show follows their life following their relocation from Washington, D.C., to Orlando, Florida, to open a cowboy...
Pen15 follows Maya Ishii-Peters (Maya Erskine) and Anna Kone (Anna Konkle), two seventh-graders social outcasts in 2000, as they navigate through social and personal lives. The name of the program comes from a school prank in which participants were asked to join the "Pen 15 Club" in exchange for writing the word "PEN 15" on their hands. Pen15is ut...
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- Fresh Off the Boat. Years after the release of All-American Girl, ABC tried again with a new show about an Asian-American family: Fresh Off the Boat. It is based on the autobiography of the chef Eddie Huang, and features a Taiwanese American family living in Florida during the nineties.
- Never Have I Ever. Created by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher, the 2020 series Never Have I Ever finds its protagonist in an Indian-American high school student in the face of a tragedy of her life.
- The Chair. Sandra Oh spearheads the television show The Chair, which casts a critical gaze on academia and colleges. Set at a fictional college named Pembroke, Oh’s character, Ji-yoon Kim, has become the first female chair of the English department.
- The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo. The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo aired originally in 1996, lasting for three years up until 1999. Irene Ng starred in the Nickelodeon series as Shelby Woo, a girl from Cocoa Beach, Florida, that likes to solve mysteries.
4 days ago · "Never Have I Ever," "Young Rock," "Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens," and 28 more TV titles that highlight the Asian American and Pacific Islander culture.
- Breaking Ground. In an era of exclusion and U.S. empire, new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Barred by anti-Asian laws they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants,” yet they build railroads, dazzle on the silver screen, and take their fight for equality to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- A Question of Loyalty. An American-born generation straddles their country of birth and their parents’ homelands in Japan and Korea. Those loyalties are tested during World War II, when families are imprisoned in detention camps, and brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the battle lines.
- Good Americans. During the Cold War years, Asian Americans are simultaneously heralded as a Model Minority, and targeted as the perpetual foreigner.
- Generation Rising. During a time of war and social tumult, a young generation fights for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, and claim a new identity: Asian Americans.
This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, international relations, and cultural innovation. It is a timely, clear-eyed look at the vital role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation.
Asian Americans is a five-hour film series that will chronicle the contributions, and challenges of Asian Americans, the fastest-growing ethnic group in America.
