 the new Netflix series brother son has officially been cancelled and will not be coming back for season two and a bunch of people are talking about it yeah a bunch of people sent me this and i'm not gonna lie this might be one of like the quickest cancellations i've ever seen because we just got done talking about it launching anyway guys make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications this has been sort of like circulating news in the asian americans that are interested in entertainment community this week right yeah no i mean i think a lot of people are reposting about it because everybody was waiting to see if brother son was gonna get a season two obviously this is a show that i watched a lot of other people watch but obviously not everybody watched because if everybody watched it they'd they'd bring it back hey shout out to sam lee friend of ours him and justin chin and her they just got done doing their talk show rounds like two weeks ago yeah but i mean that's how it is right the show comes out and they get they get the views maybe i think Netflix had some very strict metrics and numbers that the show probably needed to hit right within the first couple months and it didn't hit it right i guess it was like uh it fell very short of it that is according to the article right i will say this and nowadays in the streaming analytics error decisions are coming quicker than they ever did right oh no they're like oh two weeks in didn't hit the numbers done do you think though that there are extra this is the conspiracy part and we have to entertain it because we know that there can be some legitimacy to this were they extra quick to cancel it because it was asian they could they have just held off the decision because then it looked like they just couldn't wait to chop it down no i don't think obviously netflix has anything against asian people no i mean netflix has a ton of great and successful but you know what i'm referring to and this initial boom of like let's approve everything asian but then cut the ones that don't you know perform quickly if this sort of like process might be in session well man you know it's just like any other business it's about the bottom line it's about money because at the end of the day listen the show costs money to make and if they don't think it's worth it to make another season or they don't have the other season written or they don't know where to take it because do they take it to taiwan because at the knowing at the of this the ending of season one taiwan seems like the next logical place to take the story but they can't film in taiwan so i guess they kind of left it you know like maybe they just don't know where to go with it hey listen guys the comments were very split some asians were happy to see it get canceled which is interesting we're gonna get into that some people were in the middle some people were sad and real quick i need you to give your hot take did you like the show as somebody who watched the show i liked parts of it and i think part of it was very strong and part of it to be honest was very cringy now shout out to all our friends who were in it sam lee jenny yang june lee yoshi sudaso they got their shot i thought they all did their thing but yeah execution wise nah there was definitely some parts where i was like and then there were some parts where i was like oh i like it there was parts of it that felt like a christian movie director that had never seen an asian gangster film from asia like god put in charge of this gangster scene and i was like well this is so weird yeah so so the of the friends that hated it i have friends who hated it they compared it to everything else oscar winning movies they were going to compare it to a lot of the korean films that are coming on korean shows they which were maybe overall better they said the show was unrealistic it was corny it was your girlfriend didn't like the show no my girlfriend did not like she hated the show she hated the show um i think a lot of like asians from the street world maybe they thought it was kind of unrealistic and goofy well because it made the azn street world to be honest looked like a joke yeah but i think the friends who loved it they didn't overthink it they didn't over examine it they were just like oh it's a fun show with a lot of badass action i like michelle yo so it was cool right right right and i'll tell you this michelle yo is going to be okay she got cancelled from abc on disney plus now this show got cancelled and she's still going to be in 63 things next year anyway let's just get into the comments section somebody said but they keep renewing emily in paris and river dales and stuff what the f but here's the thing is literally guys if you guys know how netflix operates there are very analytic like tech based company they literally just go off roi stats yeah i think that um on the asian internet asian american internet a lot of people are talking about this but you have to understand how many people in the world have no idea that this show even came out right somebody said listen guys i felt like whenever all the critic reviews came out it was just rose colored glasses everybody felt the need to support a pro asian male masculine show that was like kind of gangster kind of illegal and kind of cool but everybody was just not being honest with themselves because not all representation is good representation guys there still has to be a minimal line of execution ability wow yeah i think there's some truth to that comment um somebody just said man i couldn't even make make it through the first 20 minutes of course andrew this turned into a bunch of people pointing out everything that they didn't like about the show gangster scenes unrealistic this part seems serious this part seemed absolutely off the wall wacky plot holes galore people really hated it when the what the dancing tai chi grandmas like she stopped the gangsters oh man that's probably that was a cringe show that was a cringe all my friends in the show i hope you guys get more work after this it might have been the worst asian gangster scene i ever seen in my life yeah by the way guys the actors our friends who were in it it wasn't their fault how the show turned out they're just playing the role right right right um other people were saying oh netflix is losing uh money and they're just blaming it on the asian shows blaming on their dei shows somebody said man listen guys with warrior getting canceled abc getting canceled all these asian shows getting canceled it goes to show you what happens when asians don't have an asian american network for all these shows to live on because you know how uh obviously there are more latino networks they tend to be more spanish based but there's certainly a lot of uh black entertainment networks and then or verticals at least whether it's digital or in analog but then like asians are always existing on mainstream platforms because there is no asian centric platform i guess i mean you would agree that that's that's true i don't think this asian network is going to even have the money to produce a show like this right because you're saying where would the capital this was like millions of dot like i don't know how much like what like did this show not cost more a million dollars plus per episode for sure yeah probably yeah that's why they're so ruthless with their ROI yeah calculations that's why netflix is like cool we made the show great it didn't make the cut we're done that's it um i hope this doesn't spell the end for like triad shows i love triad shows but i will say this it's very difficult because like the azn world in terms of the street world i definitely think it's perceived or whatever more southeast asian so you can't really bring it to this like taiwan gangster and then taiwan over achievers that are like nerds that are like in orchestra getting straight that there's just that to that to how it manifests in america there's no connection between those triangulation of those three worlds yeah if i had to put it plainly i think the show felt too goofy to be an actual gangster flick and it was too dark and gangster to be like a full-on kind of jackie chan comedy you mean like fresh off the boat fresh off the boat was clearly in the silly billy's wholesome yes that's why fresh off the boat worked even though some scenes of fresh off the boat were cringe it was like you know what it was supposed to be man it's supposed to be a family funny show about kids the color grading was all bright and sunny so my thing is if there were to be a season two in my mind of brother son i would like to see it go darker even darker more gangster and have it take place in taiwan now maybe i think just any other taiwanese gangster flick which i've seen some takada yeah dakada or there's like multiple taiwanese gangster films the gao shou hei shou hui they're way darker and way more serious oh man they're they're dark and they're way cooler to be honest like those are just cohesive pieces so anyways guys we're not here to rag on the show because honestly i enjoyed a lot of part of it's a lot of part parts of it but i'm not also going to be shocked that you know our agents get to get another chance to do something conventionally cool or is it back to sunny yes yes i think so even though these were all shows that were approved maybe three four years ago and then got made a couple years ago and then are finally out i still think asians are getting more shots but there was definitely a surge of asian content and not all of it did well do you think they're replacing it they're like uh you know shogun that takes place in japan plus we got the uh white protagonist uh yep shogun in brother son out david does it kind of go to show you that when you film something using a lot of asian americans it's tough on where to put it is it you mean the cultural space is it a goofy fun just comedy or is it are you trying to make asian america seem very dark crazy and dangerous and gangster is it the corruptor or is it a more of a jackie chan but not jackie chan the foreigner you know i felt like there was a mix i thought rumble in the bronx had an amazing mix i thought older jackie stuff before he got super goofy like the suit that was really uh the best triangulation in my opinion but you need the personnel and the writers and everything to pull it off i like rush hour series rumble in the bronx let us know what you think in the comment section below until next time we the hot pot boys be out peace