I was skeptical but Warrior on Cinemax is prettu good. It’s about Chinese immigrants in 1878 San Francisco and based on some Bruce Lee stories. The fighting is good, story works, actors are great, and the music really works to set sort of a 70s spaghetti western feel.
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But, the slang used incorporates a lot of Chinese offensive terms kind of “back translated”. Like “onion” when talking about other Chinese and “duck” when talking about whites. The show also does not try to whitewash away the racism SF has always had toward the Chinese.
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Warrior though also has a lot of WTF over the top elements which makes it fun, but be warned if you’re a historian it will probably piss you off. For example, the main character’s Grandfather was American…which would be tough to explain. British is more believable.
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