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Wu, a memorable tiger-mom spitfire on “Fresh Off the Boat,” makes a complete reversal here as a sympathetic Lizzie Bennet-like heroine who schemes only in self-defense.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2018

Better that, surely, than hot-housing the thing all the way through its life, like a paranoid tiger-mom administering to some grotesque, pampered adult.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2017