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Louis’ “escapades” with his old business partner feels equally underdeveloped, again trying to focus on a relationship we know nothing about, when the fate of a much more important friendship hangs in the balance. Not even a black-and-white shot of Eddie, DMX, and Genesis rolling down the straight in an El Dorado can save this story, like a wilting, underdeveloped tulip in DMX’s horticulture ro- ok, you get the terrible simile, let’s just move on. Except there’s no room for the necessary legwork to be done for those moments to matter: Eddie and DMX are just all of a sudden friends, just like it’s suddenly Allison’s birthday, two events the episode really could’ve built to in more convincing ways. “We Done Son” never takes the time to develop the mentor/student relationship Eddie forms with DMX, a story that tries to turn a hokey celebrity cameo into something ironically funny, and meaningful to Eddie’s budding relationship with Allison. Frankly, their argument over Jessica’s dismissal of Honey’s ideas turns quite ugly, and doesn’t quite fit in with the tone of the rest of “We Done Son,” which is a noticeably lighter affair with Eddie or Louis (mostly due to the presence of DMX and JB Smoove as guest stars in the episode). Their friendship is an important cornerstone of the show, so it’s natural I wouldn’t care about Eddie’s girlfriend whose name I can’t remember, or a DMX appearance that makes absolutely no sense given the show’s timeline ( I’ve ranted about this with Boyz II Men before you bet I was pissed when he showed up in 1995). There’s just not a lot of room for conflict to develop in “We Done Son” away from Honey and Jessica.
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“We Done Son” is one of those half hours, an episode with three individual plot lines about the value of friendship a trio of stories that are amusing and insightful in their own context, but feel a little weightless when bunched together across a single 22-minute episode. Cattleman’s Ranch, Eddie’s school, Jessica’s career all of these settings have so many well-developed personas, it can be hard for Fresh to find its priorities in any episode that isolates the family members. Fresh Off the Boat‘s dynamic characters make it an extremely versatile comedy: it can navigate the many genres it intersects with ease, thanks to a fully-realized ensemble bringing every setting to life.