 As Disney's American-born Chinese series just got canceled, which stars Michelle Yo, a new dark comedy gangster thriller series on Netflix just came out that also stars Michelle Yo, so Michelle Yo has just been resurrected. But is this new show going to succeed and are you going to watch it? Let's talk about it. I really have to tell you, Michelle Yo is like the LeBron James of Asian American cinema and media right now on every platform. You guys, we got to talk about this, Andrew. American-born Chinese was canceled at Disney Plus. However, the brother's son just released this week on Netflix and we watched the first episode, so make sure you like, subscribe, and turn on your notifications, Andrew. We're supporting it. We know a lot of people in the cast itself, but you know what else is popping from Asian America? Small eyes sauce. Check it out, man. It just came out a couple months ago and it's almost sold out, so maybe it will get renewed for season two as well. Long story short, guys. The brother's son, it's really interesting because it's almost like there's some elements of the typical Asian American coming of age story, right, from ABC, but mixed with like a dark triad Chinese gangster, not gangster, gangster movie mixed with what, a comedy? Yeah, I would say mixed in with some oddball kind of irreverent humor or like elements, kind of like everything everywhere all at once. There's definitely some goofiness in the story, but anyways, guys, we're going to talk about it because I think that so far, David, the brother's son, and it just came out like five days ago as of when we filmed this video, and it's got really good reviews as far as the people who rated it, but does that mean it's going to be successful? So I want to ask you guys out there, who has watched it? Leave a comment if you like it, but if not, also tell us why you don't like it. Well, I think the truth is, you know, ABC on Disney Plus, I heard it was a very expensive show and that was part of it, but that also had 94% on Rotten Tomatoes when it got canceled. So I don't know if Rotten Tomatoes is fully a good metric when nobody watches the show except the people who want to support the show. And remember a key for a show to be successful is not whether you like the show, it's whether it gets renewed for season two. That's really key. Well, isn't it if enough people that fit the demographic that they're going after watch the show? Of course, every show generally has a cult following, right? To a greater or lesser extent. Obviously, if you're Game of Thrones, you have a lot. If you're a lesser show, you have a smaller one, but they really want to know how it performs with a normie average consumer that's not in your niche superfan group, right? Anyway, let's talk about the brother son, Andrew Michelle Yeoh is mama's son. Charles Chen is Charles's son. Samsung Lee, shout out to Sam Lee is Bruce's son. You've got Heidi Kwan as Alexis. Alice Huken as Mae, June Lee, shout out to June Lee from the YouTube world. Madison, who has grace? Jenny Yang, Andrew. Jenny Yang. Good to see Jenny in a roll, shout out to Jenny Yang. No wonder for years. So we do have, we know, know a lot of people in this show. And I know actually a lot of other LA people who kind of make appearances in the background or maybe have like one or two lines here or there. Are you interested to see a Netflix show, Andrew, that has some Asian American, like, you know, typical elements like we always talk about mixed with like a ta-ka-ta Taiwanese gangster drama. You watch or have watched some of those in Taiwan ease? Yeah, there is. Listen, the show, I'm just going to say this. I watched two episodes. Everybody should watch one episode. They should, everybody should feel obligated. Now, this is a good enough show. Trust me. I don't say this by every show feel obligated. I think Asians who like any Asian who likes action should feel obligated to watch episode one. I think if you're Chinese and especially from California, no, let's be honest because it takes place in the SGV and this has to do with Taiwan. So how about this? If you Chinese, you got to watch two episodes. If you Asian American, you should at least watch the trailer. And if you Taiwanese and you ever knew that there was not just the model minority side to the Taiwanese experience, but also that gangster, more like Gaosheng side, three episodes. Yeah. Yeah. If you go have been back to Taipei at least three or four times in your life for family reasons, you got to watch at least three or four episodes. So I think it's a good show. That's my thing. I'm obviously I have my criticisms of it, but not to just be so critical. It, it's solid from what I saw and you watch more than me. Yeah. I felt like there was some really good moments that made me reminded me, especially when it was Michelle Yoh and Justin where I was like, yo, this is kind of fired. There's like a hei shou hui, which is like a underground world drama, but there were some parts. There were some misses too, right? They were swinging a lot. When you swing for home runs, sometimes you hit a home run, but sometimes you'll be getting let me, let me just tell you this. When it comes to the deep cut gangster, darks, a Chinese stuff in the show, I, I thought it was better. There's certain aspects that you're talking about the AZN gangster stuff was certain stuff about in the California that are like kind of weird. It looks weird and like looks goofy, but I don't know. Maybe that's part of the appeal of the show too. You know, like there is some like, it seems like the AZN gangster parts were more removed from reality than the hei shou hui triad stuff. Possibly. But anyways, uh, I guess David, any other last takes before we get into the comment section? Listen, if you guys are, uh, have a few toes, obviously I'm sure nobody watching here has 10 toes. Maybe some people do in the industry. You know that they took a look in over the past four or five years at so many Asian pilots. Not all the Asian pilots got picked up, but I'll tell you this. If Michelle Yoh was attached to one of those pilots, it probably got picked up. It got picked up. Yeah. So it got a chance. It's got a chance. Let's get into the comment section. Somebody said Michelle Yoh always picks the best roles. Somebody said it was 10 out of 10. Somebody said, I like blood blue boots, which is played by this character, John Shred. They liked his character. Other people were against the brother son, Andrew. Piss poor acting and boring, boring storyline. The acting is pretty awful and made it feel like a daytime soap opera ish was way too goofy. Basically referring to some of the more gangsta scenes feeling silly. I think it depends on what your expectation is. I think if you go in with zero expectation, then I think the top comments are a hundred percent true. I think if you are going through it with a very like critical eye, it does feel like more of a TV series, except more bloody. So like this does feel like a TV series that might have showed up on like a CW better than CW is better than CW is better than CW. But maybe like ABC like a real network or a Fox, you know, like something that has there are certain aspects that are I do agree are a little goofy. Are you saying it doesn't feel like HBO or Showtime? It's not an HBO show, but it is a solid show. So I think that's why if you don't like the first episode, then don't watch the rest of the show. But I think you should watch it. Give it a chance, man. Give it a chance. You got to give it a chance because there's a lot of good action. There's a lot of blood. Somebody said it just feels like a Western Asian specialty made for Western tastes. This is a comment from obviously a father or some guy from Asia himself. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, they definitely did make it with it is less Asian. It doesn't feel like it was made in Asia. That that is true. Right. Right. Right. Other people saying that, you know, this had to be written by an Asian guy. If it was Asian girl, it would have just not been necessarily as good Asian American representation. Some people were saying, Hey, listen, guys, it might not be perfect, but I'm just happy to see sort of almost like some cool leading male action, like some masculine energy. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I think what's what's good is that Justin Chen in there, he's the main protagonist. He's like the action, the badass brother assassin in the show. And he still gets to flex some dry humor in it as well as there is the goofy brother, which is Sam Song Lee, who kind of is like this goofy, unknowingly, like he's the brother who's raising a gangster family, but it got hidden from him. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's unbeknownst to him. Michelle Yo does do a good job in this. As always, she does like, she, I think she always does an eight out of 10, like in every single role. So it's pretty good. And then there is some darkness to the show, which I think adds to the legitimacy and makes it a little less cringe. But definitely some parts I'm like, I would like to see somebody ram a boba straw through somebody's eyeball. If why not? Oh, that's not. You want to see that? Why not? They probably have it in later, the later series. I didn't watch it all. Because if it's going to be in 626 and it's going to be like a crazy Taiwanese gangster drama, why not smash somebody's head with a durian like that Jackie Chan movie when they were in Malaysia? Yeah. No, no, there is. There's some of that. There is some of that. Somebody said you can't just take two generic things, a generic Asian gangster show and a generic Asian American show and then cram them together and it doesn't make it automatically good. I do. This is not my words by the way somebody else. Yeah, I think I think here's my prediction to wrap this up. I think this show does get renewed. I think it's good enough. I think it is one of the better Asian action films. It doesn't deal with a whole lot of mysticism of ancient Asian, ancient Chinese culture, which ancient Chinese culture is for is is is a good thing is a real thing. But I don't need to see every show about it and a real expand on that real quick, because I think that that's probably why ABC on Disney Plus, despite the good reviews from the few people who saw it, got canceled. It's a really hot. It was really high budget due to the CGI with the mysticism. And a lot of people in the Western world are fundamentally not interested in Sun Wukong or Schumann. And it has to do with the execution, too, because they like it overseas. But even it was done different than in Disney. I think even other Asian Americans, even Chinese Americans, are not as much into how Sun Wukong is like represented. Like I would like to see Sun Wukong more in like a modern day. Like he's resurrected. I want to see Zhu Ge Liang or Cao Cao in the modern day. Yeah, like some other like some real Chinese story. And then what about like Sun Zhu comes back and then like Guan Yu Sun Zhu plans like the military operation for this kid to go like China to take over the US. You want Sun Zhu to come back and lead China? I think this I think this series gets a renewed. But I think they make some tweaks in the second season. But overall, watch the first episode, guys. That's my message. Okay, it is good. It is some good action. There's some blood. There's some humor. There's some Chinese culture. Check it out. There was some fire scenes. There were some not fire scenes, but watch for the fire scenes. I'll say this. Anytime something is trending, whether it's a movement or an archetype, a style of music, do you remember when the cool kids were popping and then Chitty Bang was getting on? But Chitty Bang wasn't good. But everybody was doing in that diamond with the black mags, you know that like 1980s tape deck rap restyle back in the day? And was that like 2008? I'm saying it's like sometimes when there's a movement, it's going to produce a volume of products, right? And there's going to be a variance in how cringe they are, how cringe they are. Oh, beef wins the Golden Globe because it's the least cringe. But even though it shows that get canceled, even a movie like Boogie, as cringe as Boogie was, Eddie Huang's basketball, Asian American basketball, there were some good moments. Yeah, there were some fire moments. Everybody has good moments, but there were some not fire moments. Yeah. So I just feel like this is just part of the process. So I guess Asian Americans support it, but know that the road like upwards, there's some cringiness and there will be more shows to as well that have Asians in it. So this is not the end. But people are worried. Oh my gosh, these are our first like 10 and not only some of them were good and some of them for this show to be successful, it's going to require more than just Asians to watch it. So I think like, I think the numbers will speak. We'll see in probably a couple months from now, you know, whether it gets renewed or not. Let us know what you guys think in the comments section below. If you've even seen the trailer, if you've watched any full episodes of the brother son out on Netflix right now, shout out to everybody that was in it. I hope it goes and gets renewed. And but then I hope we get more stuff too. Anyway, let us know what you think in the comments section below until next time with the Hop Hop Boys. We out. Peace.