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- FX
- Feb 27, 2024
- FX
- Feb 27, 2024
Summary In feudal Japan, Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), British captain John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) and translator Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai) are brought together as a civil war looms in this limited series adaptation from Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks of James Clavell's novel of the same name (that was also made into a 1980 miniserie...
- FX
- Feb 27, 2024
- FX
- Feb 27, 2024
Shogun (2024)
Season 1
Season Premiere: Feb 27, 2024
7.8
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Summary In feudal Japan, Lord Yoshii Toranaga (Hiroyuki Sanada), British captain John Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis) and translator Toda Mariko (Anna Sawai) are brought together as a civil war looms in this limited series adaptation from Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks of James Clavell's novel of the same name (that was also made into a 1980 miniserie...
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
85
95% Positive
37 Reviews
37 Reviews
5% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
85
95% Positive
37 Reviews
37 Reviews
5% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Majestic. .... I never wanted to leave this world. Please, FX, never stop aiming this high. [11 - 31 Mar 2024, p.4]
There are superficial similarities to “Game of Thrones” — five contenders for an empty throne, a storyline about two girlhood friends on opposite sides of a power struggle. But it’s this focus on people that truly unites the two series, and qualifies “Shōgun” to take up the mantle of thrillingly transportive event TV.
The long-gestating production — first announced in 2018 — was worth the wait. Gorgeous and immersive from the very first frame, the new Shōgun is a stunning epic that never lets big-budget set pieces overshadow the human drama at its core.
Co-creators Rachel Kondo and Justin Marks have assembled a fine team of directors and a greatly talented ensemble cast to deliver engrossing appointment-TV with a cinematic level of achievement.
If you come here expecting the Battle of Sekigahara, you’ll be disappointed. But subtlety and cleverness can be exciting too.
Watching “Shōgun" is a you-are-there-you-are-not-there experience — both bracing and chilly, not consistently engaging yet (paradoxically) always engaging, “Shōgun" draws you in, but never quite makes you feel welcome to be there.
His [Blackthorne's] journey toward “enlightenment” and his unconvincing affair with Mariko are thinly sketched—and, because “Shōgun” is at pains to foreground the regents’ war, he has more to offer the narrative as a source of discord and of new martial technology than as a romantic hero. In theory, elevating Mariko and Toranaga to primary characters is the “correct” update, helping to avoid another “whitewashed” tale about Japan. But both are so bound by repression and secrecy that they’re almost doomed to be dramatically inert.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 220 User Ratings
7.8
77% Positive
169 Ratings
169 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
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23% Negative
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 220 User Ratings
7.8
77% Positive
169 Ratings
169 Ratings
0% Mixed
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
23% Negative
51 Ratings
51 Ratings
No forced woke bs.... Just a proper tv adaptation.... Netflix, amazon, paramount should take notes with their absolute trash like rings of power, witcher and master cheeks halo. The casting, story, pacing is all perfect, very good show.
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