Making Jessica Huang, TV’s Queen of One-Liners

On last week’s episode of Fresh Off the Boat, Mama Huang, played by Constance Wu, remembers the story of how she adopted her American name, Jessica. Their friendly white neighbors Marv, Honey, and Deirdre populate her flashback even though Louis points out that they didn’t go to school with her. “All white people look the same,” she says with a wave of her hand. “It flips the lens on a familiar trope where white people think basically that all other ethnicities look the same.” Read More…