#1 Happy Family USA Keeps Swinging

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Spoilers follow for the first season of #1 Happy Family USA, all eight episodes of which premiered on Prime Video on April 17. 

If Ramy Youssef’s other TV shows, Ramy and Mo, were meant to evoke a friendly, self-deprecating Muslim man offering non-brown viewers a pull on the hookah, Youssef’s latest, #1 Happy Family USA, throws that glass pipe and its symbolic desire for cross-cultural friendship into a bonfire. In an era where the current administration...