Here's the link to watch their last episode 😢. Edit: the last talk show.

https://www.youtube.com/live/dE9-YmdDbM4?si=AooVz-ZkWduC2dED

say it upfront: THIS SHOW IS ENGAGING AF.

I posted when just 5 ep in, said i was disappointed, seems to me that this show can substitute Chinese with other races of immigrants, the story should still be largely the same, not much is truly Chinese.

Now that I finished all three seasons, I stood by what i said, BUT

THIS SHOW IS ENGAGING AF. Really looking forward to S4, if there is one.

few things though

1. what happened to Penny? you can't just leave her there!

2. is really necessary to have sex/nude scene by now? if i want to watch porn i know where to go.

3. Mai Ling wedding, my god the clothes they were wearing and the wedding procedures were so wrong it hurt my eyes. I understand that story has not much real history in it and i am fine, but cultural things like this, why mess it up so badly.

Just started watching Black Doves with Keira Knightley. Not sure yet how big a role Andrew plays… https://m.imdb.com/name/nm4010671/?ref_=m_ttfcd_cl5

Best show I’ve watched in a while.I like the action, the story line, the realness behind the plot. It’s got me wanting to go to China to learn Kung fu

As an asian person, I have fallen in love with the show with ever single bit of it. With the fact that a season 4 is unlikely, I just wanted to say a thank you to everyone involved for the immense amount of inspiration that it has gifted me. I have a project set in the 1900s in the works that I don't think would've ever happened if it wasn't for Warrior. The show will forever stay with me and there is more that I feel that I am currently unable to put into words.

All I can say is thank you again.

just finished binging this show. i love westerns, i love martial arts movies, this show is what happens when a western gets sticky with a martial arts movie and it was darn near perfect. now i've come to find out they refuse to do season 4 and cancel the series.

while i got this fresh in my mind, got some thoughts to share with you fellas.

1. was it kind of odd that Li Yong wasn't there to protect Mei Ling? last time you see him he touched mei lings face gently and seemed hurt that she thought he would ever hurt her. his love and loyalty would have kept him there by her side during the attack, so where was he? did he really abandon post and let the hop wei attack?

2. did they really kill off the coolest character in the show? (chao) i mean maybe he was found and recovers in season 4 but now we'll never know.

3. why did they give up on some of the other romances in the show? i liked leary with sophie, its too bad she never comes back around after what happened with jacob, figured thered be some reconciliation there for them. and what about marcel and hong? that argument they have after hong beats the cops ass in the club was really poor writing in my opinion, it seemed like the writers just wanted them to break up and wrote a stupid 5 minute scene to do so. why not keep them together?

4. did anyone here kinda hope that leary would've walked gotten in stricklands house the same time as ah toy and nellie? like he shows up to kill him and surprise! they're there to kill him too and he walks in as ah toy kills him. i kinda wish they did, would be fun to see that interaction, maybe even change his mind about the chinese.

thats all i got for now, really enjoyed this show, gonna keep my fingers crossed that down the road they change their minds and someone picks it back up again.

I was posting somewhere else, and wrote this, and the more I think about it, of course there were gang wars!

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Opium was a business, this is a historic fact. It was an illegal business. Illegal businesses exist in competition. Illegal businesses have no real reason to compete legally. So, Illegal businesses compete violently. This is true in every society and time-frame we know of. We call it 'organized crime.'

Therefore- the existance of Opium, assuming it was imported through Asia, pretty much guarantees that there were gang wars in Chinatown. As a function of economic competition. Gang war stories? the real versions? Almost never get told. The gangs frown on that. At best, you can tell a fictionalized version, but only after tensions have completely dissipated.

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There are never not gang wars when it comes to the international narcotics trade. Violent competition is a part of it. Always has been. Always will be.

There is a valid question of "did it look like it did in the show?"

I'd say, probably not the full-scale war scenes :). But of course, I am guessing. Someone from the San Francisco Chinatown community such as Shannon Lee, would be able to get a much better idea of what the truth was than I could. She'd know the people who still knew the stories, from their communal lore.

My guess is, she hopes to keep giving us a sensationalized versions of the stories from there.

As a Chinese migrated to USA at 16 yo and now 39, I was hoping this show giving me some real history, now 5 ep in and a little research, it seems only Tong Wars as a topic was real, and depiction of discrimination maybe, doesn't seem much else is historically sound. A lot of violence and sex, seems generic.

I am by no means a history snub, but I was really hoping for more.

BTW, I was like "This Jason Tobin guy looks so familiar but I swear I never seen him before." Then it dawns on me, he looks like a smaller version of Biu Yuen, Jackie Chan's smallest brother in Beijing Opera school, a Kung star in himself, though not as famous as his brothers Jackie Chen and Sammo Hung

First off.. I thought the sets and visuals were all incredibly well done. Really had the feeling that you were in Chinatown.

I liked the blood, sex, and hand to hand fighting.. even though the knife vs gun elements left me confused. If you ever have heard the saying, “don’t bring a knife to gun fight”, this series may not be for you.. cause that happens a lot.

Storyline for the most part was ok. Too many woke elements for me.. but it kept me interested.

Overall I’m glad I watched.

Just saw a clip of Andrew from snakeeyes and he resembles Bruce Lee so much

This may not be the best place to ask this question, but watching Warrior has me wondering: why hatchets? Many of the tongs also have members that carry knives and other weapons, but it seems that the hachet was a particular favorite for 19th century footsoldiers in many crime syndicates. We're they just easier to make, easier for novices to pick up and fight with? Just curious, would love to know more!

In the beginning of episode two they burn a shipment of molasses. Why was molasses important to the tongs?

It’s hard for me to picture gangs hacking each other in the middle of the streets. Also, whenever they discussed the number of people killed or injured, the number always seemed much lower than the scenes suggested.

Girl

includes season 3 spoilers https://youtu.be/O96e9FaLzTY?si=GhtKAxwtFGxFArCz

It was 4k on max, then moved down to HD with Netflix. While max was HD, Netflix was 4K, but now they are both HD. Is there a 4K source somewhere for this show? I’m sure it still looks great but I did S1 in 4K. As a video snob, going back down could destroy my selective OCD.

I know max has the content. Titans and Doom Patrol were downgraded for a few years until recently.

One of my favorite shows, they need to end it off with a final season.

I didn't tell them that the series is already cancelled by Cinemax. I am just letting them to fully get into the series like I did. Letting them love the characters and the plot. I can't be the only one in this household who will get heartbroken by the cancellation and the cliffhanger in the final season 😌

(This isn't a loaded question, I don't care either way, just seeking clarification on a line I didn't quite catch.)

Rewatching Warrior for the umpteenth time and there's a line in 1x09 "Chinese Boxing" that I hadn't caught before, where O'Hara tells Lee he thinks of him as proof god is punishing him, and Lee replies that he doesn't think so, because "he isn't up there".

So is Lee saying he doesn't believe in a god, or did I misunderstand the line? I can't remember his religion (or religion more generally) being brought up later in the series anyway.

Does Warrior have a decent ending, even though there's no fourth season? I just finished Banshee and was thinking about giving Warrior a chance, but finding out it was canceled after the third season, I'm curious to know if the ending is enough (with series finale characteristics) or if it feels rushed and left a lot hanging.

I really love Warrior. It's great fun and as a history nerd (and California native) I like to see an attempt to depict a really interesting time and place.

I'm halfway through season 2, so there might be things coming that I haven't seen.

But fuck that character is irritating. It's not really the character per se, but the way that she's written. She's *always right* and always gets quips in against her husband (who sucks, but in a cartoonishly stupid way) and unlike everyone else on the show hasn't the slightest hint of racism. She's brave, she's smart, she morally righteous.

The "you go girl" energy in her character is just tedious and makes here character no fun to watch.

The other female characters are well drawn and I think the actress who plays Penelope great. Mai Ling is awesome. Ah Toy is cool. Every other character on the show has moral ambiguities and a "dark side". They're killers, drug traffickers, corrupt cops, etc. Other than cheating on her husband (who we now cheats on her and disrespects her), she does nothing wrong.

I find myself wanting to fast forward when she's on screen. The character is too perfect and it's boring and an irritating point in an otherwise good show.

Rant ended.

In my theories, Bolo vs Leary would've been cool.

After rewatching the series, I think that Li Young was a more interesting rival to Ah Sahm than Mai Ling was.