A Muslim household in New Jersey, dealing with fanaticism after September 11, doesn’t sound like a very useful assumption for Sitcom. However Rami Yusef He managed to make the theme grindly humorous in her new animation sequence “#1 Comfortable Household USA”, premiere on Thursday of Amazon Prime VideoS
Created by Youssef and Pam Brady (South Park), the sequence is a half historical past of age, with shades of “Huge Mouth” and “All Hate Chris” and half a brutal satire for Islamophobia within the early 2000s. He encourages viewers to search out humor and humanity in overseas eventualities, ensuing from what was a darkish interval for a lot of American households.
The premiere episode was erected on September 10, 2001. YouSSEF Voices Rumi, an Egyptian American boy, involved primarily with the impression of his engaging trainer (Mandy Moore), who has one thing for Michael Jordan. For this function: Rumi wears an enormous T -shirt of Bootleg Bulls, which reads “balls”. Poor little one.
After all, the following day Rumi’s life and his household out of the blue change. His father, Hussein (additionally sounded by Youssef), is a former physician, changed into a halal, proprietor of a maniacal intent to assimilate. On the identical time, nevertheless, his princess Diana, obsessive about Shari (Salma Hindi), connects once more along with her religion and begins to hold a hijab a lot for the horror of Hussein. The formidable older sister of Rumi, Mona (Alia Shawat), hides the truth that she is homosexual and an FBI agent with an issue with alcohol (Timothy Olifant) is transferring in her adjoining door.
The animation, with designs of characters with massive eyes from illustrator Mona Chalabi, generally actually actually the anxiousness of Rumi, whereas for others it permits historical past to take absurd deviations. (Halabi Won the Pulitzer Award in 2023. For a contribution to the New York Occasions.) When Rumi tries to encode to please the households of his classmates, he turns into bodily into identities like Preppy Wasp and Hogwarts Pupil. Hussein begins in music numbers, one in all which turns into the thematic track. Additionally, there’s a talking lamb.
“#1 Comfortable Household USA” manages to place story strains extracted from the grief of early adolescence within the horrific context of being a Muslim, caught in a out of the blue extra xenophobic society -while making enjoyable of the peculiarities of the early 2000s. (In a single subjug, Rumi panicked after illegally downloading music for a mixture of CD.) It is a troublesome stability to strike, however Youssef and his workforce obtain it.
