This paper aims to provide a critical analysis of an American miniseries named The Night Of. The show narrates the story of Nasir/Naz Khan, a second generation Pakistani immigrant and the problems he and his family encounter in the United States in the context of post 9/11. Movie critics and reviewers have pointed out briefly the racial discriminations against Naz by the society as a Muslim and the possible terrorist following the 9/11 events regardless of analyzing the psychological changes happening to him as an immigrant with Pakistani heritage. Acculturation strategies as a branch of cross-cultural psychology provided by Berry and his colleagues, considering the values of society of origin and the host country, offers a framework for analyzing the psychological and cultural aspects of immigrants’ lives. This study endeavors to investigate the Khans’ process of acculturation and cultural maintenance in encountering different societal institutions. Moreover, it is shown how they oscillate between acculturation strategies so as to fit in the mainstream. Consequently, it is concluded how certain strategies does not work and Naz resorts to the strategy of marginalization which is moving away from both American and Pakistani values and thus becomes a potential criminal.

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