Overview

• All eight episodes of the first season of #1 Happy Family USA are now streaming on Prime Video, earning widespread critical praise for its comedic and poignant storytelling.
• The series, set in the early 2000s, follows the Hussein family as they navigate the pressures of assimilation and surveillance in post-9/11 America.
• Created by Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady, the show employs Mona Chalabi's distinct animation style, which incorporates visual 'code-switching' to reflect the characters' shifting identities.
• The show uses meticulous analog-era research, including references from the Internet Wayback Machine, to authentically recreate early-2000s cultural and technological details.
• Renewed for a second season, the series combines dark humor and hyperbolic satire to explore generational trauma, immigrant identity, and systemic paranoia in a post-Patriot Act landscape.