Review of American Born Chinese

Typically I am always saying they shouldn't try to explain things for American audiences. But I am so wrong about that here. At least 1/2 the series I had no clue what is happening and imho there was no attempt to explain anything. This left a mark on my enjoyment. Also, I had some problems with the main character (Jin Wang). He was a first class selfish jerk all during the series. The show makes some effort to portray his classmates as jerks but Jin is a jerk to them and to the nice, but strange, chinese classmate that shows up to move the plot along. It was stunning to me how many times people let the poor behavior go. The show tries to suggest that this is because of feeling like an out cast due to his asian ancestry but - get over yourself man! Most people in this series are shockingly nice to him. I just couldn't root for such a jerk.