(Long story short: Jessica feels it’s okay to take advantage of Honey’s hospitality without expressing gratitude, because she’s family).
(Constance Wu’s comic timing is a marvel, y’all.) Wheel’s Best Friends Week is an obvious ploy to get a frustrated Honey to join Jessica on the game show, have the BFFs fight onstage, and make up via a culture lesson. But her prolonged negotiations with the landlord are aided by a twist of fate: She’s going to be on Wheel of Fortune! The scene in which Jessica and Grandma Huang scream at each other for a length that feels both way too long and exceedingly perfect is easily the premiere’s best moment. The Huangs could resume their old life pretty much immediately if Jessica would settle for paying the same amount of rent that they had before. And so the furthest they travel is “Hotel Honey,” next door to their old house, where they take over Honey’s living room while talking the world’s nicest man out of the home he just moved into. After giving up their McMansion and a cookie-cutter version of the American Dream in the season-three finale, the family are in no position for another trip. Fresh Off the Boat’s second and third seasons each launched with a family trip: The Huangs cheapskated their way around Gator World at the start of the show’s sophomore year and discovered in Taiwan just how American they are 12 months later.
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