The CW premiered a controversial new sitcom on Monday called Aliens in America, about a white family in Wisconsin that takes in an exchange student to provide their unpopular 16-year-old son with a friend, but are surprised when a Muslim teenager from Pakistan arrives at their door.
“Aliens in America has its heart in the right place,” said Tom Jicha in the Sun-Sentinel.com. But “its head is another matter.” The show talks down to its audience, treating it like “a collection of idiots and bigots, who have to be shown the light by a wise Muslim youth from Pakistan.” And it's "foolhardy" right now to think that some people won’t “be turned off by the heroic portrayal of someone from the Middle East at the expense of Middle America.” Nice try, but “the road to cancellation also is paved with good intentions.”
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