Shogun new limited series starting Feb 27
im really looking forward to this. the book is one of my all time favorites. i loved the mini series from the 80s when i was a kid. it has not aged well though. and even at the time it was really meh compared to the book.
the book is around 2k pages iirc, and the 80s show was 4 episodes. the new show is 10 episodes! so hopefully it's a lot more true to the book.
it's on hulu and FX
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finally got around to watching this. Gotta say it was top notch, can't really fault any of it
Glad to hear its been renewed for 2 additional seasons
heres my tattoo i got several years ago , been updated since.
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finally got around to watching this. Gotta say it was top notch, can't really fault any of it
Glad to hear its been renewed for 2 additional seasons
heres my tattoo i got several years ago , been updated since.
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2 more seasons? Season 1 finished the book. What are they going to use for plot and characters?
1. Make up the next x number of years?
2. Take up with Gai Jin, the only other book by Clavell set in Japan, which takes place 260+ years after Shogun?
3. Shift focus to Hong Kong and start with Tai Pan 240 years after Shogun?
I'll watch, of course, but #2 or #3 above would be preferable to #1
Can't say I'm happy for more seasons. But ready to be surprised. Sometimes, they do get it right.
While the first season of Shōgun covered the entirety of Clavell’s novel, it sounds like the next season will pull its material from Japanese history. So far, the show has balanced fact and fiction, and the second season will likely turn to a dramatized version of what really went on in 17th-century Japan. “We don’t have James Clavell’s novel anymore, but we learned his spirit and the taste of storytelling,” Sanada told THR. “Keeping quality is the most important thing to me.”
