Warrior on Cinemax was a show I started watching because I liked Bruce Lee and the Kung Fu genre. For Two Seasons now, its been a fun/flawed pulpy epic that's the perfect fix for my martial arts cravings while sprinkling in commentary on race and immigration here and there.
But this episode though, holy cow did it hit like a ton of bricks. Just the perfect buildup of tension until the showdown in Chinatown. One thing I've always liked about Warrior is that it does not pull punches with its depiction of plight of 19th Century Chinese Americans despite its pulp fiction genre setting. But I was not expecting such a visceral episode that had a lynching of an innocent man begging for his life and then a pogrom in Chinatown where Irish rioters driven by racial hatred spared no one, not even women and children. I won't get political, but suffice it to say it felt really relevant in these times.
And then of course the massive battle scene, with Andrew Koji proving finally that he more than earned the part of Ah Sahm to carry on Bruce Lee's legacy. (Btw, happy 80th Birthday, still miss you even after all these years!)
Like I said, Warrior to me was always just a fun, entertaining pulpy genre mixer. Enter the Dragon though, was simply just a masterpiece of television craft.
So incase asking for this episode to get an Emmy is going too far, I hope at least HBO Max can greenlight a third season.
Submitted November 28, 2020 at 10:11PM by boondocks5 https://ift.tt/3o5JRIW
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