 Is Hulu's new shogun show the best asian show ever? Let's talk about it because the reviews are flying in. It seems like everybody likes the portrayal of the Tokugawa Shogun. Ah, Error we gotta talk about it. This is uh getting rave reviews right now. It's charting as the highest ranked Hulu show over the bear. Shogun fans declare it an absolute masterpiece after just two episodes because Hulu unlike Netflix they don't release the whole season at one time. Wow so it's kind of got everybody on the edge of their seat guys. If you have not caught this show we're going to talk about it. David you've seen the two episodes. I've seen the reviews. I've watched some of it. Let's talk about it man because it is does it check the boxes of a badass asian show? Right there's there's badass good-looking asian people. They're killing bad white people. They're also killing each other. There's white people fighting each other. But there is a white guy who gets with an asian girl. That is true. That is so I don't know if you hold points against that. Listen guys there's some controversy even some geopolitical stuff. Make sure you like subscribe turn on your notifications check out Smala Sauce at SmalaSauce.com guys um sold out right now but we are coming back soon. Listen Shogun review an extraordinary extraordinary historical epic with heart. Is it as an old school epic with dazzling new vision? Long story short Andrew this is a remake of Shogun from 1978 which was a very classic series starting a British guy. It was beloved in the Anglo world. Right. But this one is different because it focuses more on the Japanese side and they're actually speaking Japanese instead of English. Right so do you think it's uh more I guess pro-Asian in that sense? It is more pro-Asian. It's more balanced. It's more pro-Asian and if you are like from the 70s and you're like you know I just liked it when they would speak all language even though it was unrealistic you might not like the new version as much but they do do a job of um humanizing Black Thorn as well which is the English guy. Andrew long story short in the 1600s Portugal and Spain discovered Japan but they want to keep it a secret from England. England and Portugal are our war but then there's some English people who want to go to Japan and break up the Catholic rule and make it more Protestant. So basically these are kind of like Europeans fighting over Japan even though Japan is its own thing by now. Right right they're fighting over at least the trade rights but in Japan there's also a feudal system because the main leader died his son is too young to take over and there's five warring warrior clans that are essentially like vying for power. Right right right. And uh one of the leaders of the clans Andrew is Hiroki Sonata. Yeah no I mean that's one of my favorite Japanese actors. Very cool guy so I guess David we're gonna go through the comment section and some of the gripes and some of the things that people love about the show because overall people think it's a good show but there are it does not go without its critics. Right. So let's get into it. Andrew it is loosely based off a true story of an English guy going to Japan and becoming a samurai. So but this is not the last samurai story with Tom Cruise. No but Hiroki Sonata was also in the last samurai. Right. He Hiroki Sonata also does fight along a lot of really good white people like Keanu Reeves. Keanu Reeves is part Asian though. He's part Asian but like I know but Keanu Reeves plays non-Asian in that movie. Um somebody said that this is the new Game of Thrones. It's the closest thing to Game of Thrones but way more Asian for me that's why it appeals to me because I like I never fully got into Game of Thrones. I'm not saying Game of Thrones wasn't really well made but it was just so western why wouldn't I watch the eastern one. Yeah and also I feel like this one's more rooted in realism because this doesn't have like the what the dragons and the sorcery and stuff that Game of Thrones would have. Well they're actually talking about the creation of the Tokugawa show in it right. Right. On Osaka and Tokyo and all these different things in the Edo period. Some people it does open up on a white guy like the first scene in the very first episode is on a white guy fishing off a boat. Okay so no but I'm saying that some people were like oh my gosh is this the Tom Cruise situation the last Samurai Tom Cruise. I think it is funny and I understand because I'm Asian and I have similar feelings although it doesn't affect me that much where you like see a white dude talking to an a hot Asian girl in a movie and you cannot help but think yo this white dude is about to get with her. No matter the relation it does not matter. She's smiling at him. It doesn't matter if they're enemies if the if she has a husband if he has a wife you just have a feeling you're like if they're speaking the same language they're about to get it on sooner or later. No no there is a scene where she runs back to all the other like women in the like the empire and it's like his eyes were blue blue like the ocean sky. Well maybe that really was said though maybe that is accurately I don't maybe it's possible who knows I'm sure the actual dude you know Williams or whatever his name was he got with some Japanese girls anyway let's get into the comment section. Somebody said totally worth the hype legit one of the best new series in a long time Game of Thrones level television best series no cap. A lot of Asian guys in particular Andrew they're hyped to see it like you know what I mean masculine Asian samurai. Yeah and also I think as an Asian guy you can't help up help look up to the legend of the samurai and the shogun and how they operate how badass they are they're like warrior poets they know how to do calligraphy right but they also know how to kill people they're like believe in honor believe in pride but they're also kind of like ninjas but then it's like you know I they're very cool. Yeah it's funny there is also a hidden assassins in there and they're yelling out ninja ninja it's funny but anyway um somebody says I swear if mariko sama has an affair with that white boy I'm gonna stop watching this show I can't stand it right yeah and that was from was that from like a girl or no from this is from a black woman oh yeah but um also other people there was people talking about the WMA AMF WMAF storyline however um if you watch the original shogun or see any clips from an Andrew the whole thing was based on that they actually downplayed it relative to how much it composed of the 1978 series. Right well I feel like it's not really a remake of the past one it's almost like inspired by the past one but it's probably pretty different. I heard it's actually way closer to the source material than the one in 1978 right because the one in 1978 yeah that was more anglicized right the one in 1978 is going to be heavily heavily heavily pro anglo but the source actual story is actually more 50 50 right it was more about japan right right right um somebody just said well you know I'm just gonna rewatch the old version because this new version feels a little anti-white just like everything does nowadays this was from some old British people. I gotta ask and and I can imagine feeling like a white person that it's a white dude that like you're not getting the props that you used to but you're saying an old white guy who like enjoyed the 1978 show yeah but but you had your complete decades and upon decades of media and now it's just starting to even out the stories a little bit like it's not to say that all white people are evil but let's just acknowledge in these stories now that there were more evil white people white people weren't always the hero but well you wouldn't know what it feels like you wouldn't know what it feels like to win for hundreds of years and now you feel like you're not winning anymore you know I don't know what it feels like to be a tall white man growing up feeling that you're the hero of everything and then one day feeling like everybody's just being critical of you right I don't know what that feels like they're boiling the British sailors in a pot in the first episode I've never won that much in order to feel like I lost that right you don't possess enough to feel a sense of dispossession David a lot of people are saying some people are saying yo I like to show warrior more than this show right like when you're comparing bad ass Asian shows because warrior was also about a bad ass agency yeah and I also noticed that some of this crowd under they're only into like really American things because warrior does take place in America right like you know how like some people can be so Asian American they don't even like stuff from ancient Asia you mean they think like the shogun era is like too Asian it's like too feudalistic Japan and like it's too too Samurai because they're like dude let me tell you this Asian history is way better than Asian American history you know how many L's Asians took in America repeatedly to the up to 2024 like if you really analyze Asian American history it is composed of way more L's than W's no I'm serious you know what I mean I'm keeping it real so why would you tell stories about the times where just like we were just repeatedly taking L's why not the shogun it at least yeah they were dominating the shogun era if you're a shogun duh it's nice to see some like dominance David you make a good point you guys let us know in the comments down below how you feel about that statement because I think you're making a point here and then also some Asians and this is the whole geopolitical aspect Andrew some people don't want to watch something about Imperial Japan because let's be honest Imperial Japan it didn't even try to take over Asia until 1895 but there is some direct linkage to obviously this this whole shogun era and the main restoration listen I was when I was watching episodes of shogun David remember when I told you we were watching it together and I was like damn the Japanese were this badass no wonder they thought they could take over the world like no wonder they try to take over Asia you know what I mean and I was like dang yeah like I didn't I don't feel this way when I watch like the old Chinese epics where I'm like oh yeah China's gonna take over all of Asia but I was like I watched this I was like yo the Japanese are this organized they're killing Europeans already right yeah and they're cutting off like the villagers heads who are like not bowing to the samurai but I think it's like the same thing as like the whole Godzilla minus one thing where it's like dude you're but that that had a better argument because that was actually about soldiers who came home from war yeah exactly but I'm like this is in the 1600s this is like way back in the day yeah this is way before Japan became evil they are talking about taking over Korea in in shogun a little bit that's true if I was Korean and tapped into history and felt some type of way yeah I could see that no I saw some a few mostly Koreans but some Chinese people in the comments saying that you know they're they can't get down with anything like representing that era anyways David how bad should Asians all right do you can you make a case to everybody to watch at least one episode if they can everybody watch an episode get the free trial you know what I mean like where you don't have to pay but you got to put your information in get the free trial check out the first three episodes wow you're saying it's worth getting a free trial of hulu just to watch the first three episodes I'm rocking with it bro listen I get it you know don't you know root for the shogun so like take over your mother country or whatever back in in in the later episodes but I'm just saying like it's fire yeah all right all right representation man shout out to a rookie sonata I always was feeling I like the way him and Donnie and both played in uh John Wick 4 hey guys let us know in the comments down below have you seen the show is this something you're looking forward to it is considered one of the best badass Asian shows recently I will say warrior get similar reviews but you guys can debate about which one you guys like more so we'll see you guys uh let us know in the comments down below thank you so much for watching the hot pot boys and until next time we out peace