A major network has just ordered a series about a man who sends for a mail-order bride from the Philippines and winds up with a full mail-order family. Things are officially spiraling, you guys.
Deadline reports that NBC has picked up a series from the execs behind Superstore. Mail Order Family is a half-hour sitcom reportedly based on Superstore writer and creator Jackie Clarke's own family. Guess what it's about. Okay, okay, we'll just tell you.
The series is about a widower who orders a bride from the Philippines to help him raise his preteen daughters. Presumably, she will also fulfill wifely duties. Nothing like ordering a woman from another country like she an imported product that helps raise grieving children, right?
And yet somehow, it does not sound funny to me at all. Apparently, I am not the only one who isn't 100% giggles about this news. Not down with this idea? Join the club — and sign the petition.
Just when u think AsnAms are making progress, @NBC does this sht https://t.co/9ynL6lI43L Mail-order brides?? u fckn kidding me? This passes?
— philipwang (@philipwang) September 29, 2016
Really @nbc, a family-comedy about the sex trafficking of Asian women? https://t.co/7YNrndEAh6
— mieke eoyang (@MiekeEoyang) September 29, 2016
cc: @angryasianman
Mail Order Family, a comedy about a single father who orders a mail order bride from the Philippines. NO THANK YOU. https://t.co/RUMZKX4DNo
— Angry Asian Man (@angryasianman) September 29, 2016
Need your help to cancel NBC's racist sitcom. Sign this petition & share.#FilipinasNot4Sale #CancelMailOrderFamilyhttps://t.co/ZUUp1dkx9O
— Andrew (@estoyspnoy) September 30, 2016
Mail Order Family sitcom from NBC. I see nothing that could go wrong.
— John Cho (@JohnTheCho) September 30, 2016
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