I believe thatās what theyāre doing with the current Shogun.
What Pierce Brosnan did between Remington Steele and becoming Bond! In that odd underrated interregnum when Timothy Dalton had a darker and more brutal version of Bond, and was mostly criticized for it, only for Daniel Craig to be lauded for much the same thing a few decades later.
Loved those Clavell books back in the 80s. Got Shogun as a Kindle deal a year or two ago, but I havenāt gone back to it. I only remember watching a handful of those miniseries, but my parents - perhaps especially my mother - watched a lot of them (especially the ones featuring Richard Chamberlain); I only remember Shogun, Noble House, and a World War II one - I donāt think it was Winds of War, but more fictional; I think there was an older Jewish man murdered in the concentration camps, and me being shocked that TV would actually do that to a character.
And John Rhys-Davies / Gimli / Sallah was in a bunch of them too.
I wonder how those miniseries look today. TV aesthetics have changed ā¦ one bit from Chamberlainās Shogun, including commercials and credits.
I have a sneaking suspicion that watching Shogun as a child is at least a little bit responsible for me winding up in Asia.
I was traumatized by having to do simultaneous interpretation for half of those for my mom who did not speak English but loved Richard Chamberlain and Sam Neill.
I watched Shogun and I actually do like it so far. I really like how they used Japanese actors. Seeing Osaka castle was really cool after visiting myself last winter.
Expats
4/10
Episode one makes Hong Kong look like a horrifically sad depressing place and people.
I finished Game of Thrones and needed another show to provide background noise while I worked on a book project I landed.
I hate Rick and Morty. My son watched it all the time when he was home from college. Like, I fucking hated it.
But, I canāt help myself. Itās hilarious.
The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin
Quite funny and dumb in a good way.
I, Claudius
I wonder if I should watch the TV show or read the book first but the book is probably easier to obtain.
Saw this historian that says most Robert Graves awesome book and by association TV show are mostly fiction.
A fun show so far
The Guy Ritchie film was entertaining if you like his stuff
Black Mirror 6.3
Aarol Paul and Josh Hartnett are great, very dark, probably my favorite episode since the robot dog
Laughing out loud funny.
Totally disagree. Shogun is the best miniseries Iāve seen since Queenās Gambit.
This is on my watchlist. I think the lead, Theo James, shouldāve been the new Bond.
Queens Gambit one of my favorites even though 4 years ago.
Shogun, watched 3 episodes. And Iām like falling off my chair bored done.
Iāve been really impressed with it so far. For that classic āpretending to be high-brow, but really itās a well-done soap operaā mix of politics and personal relationships and occasional violence, I dunno, maybe my favorite since early Game of Thrones.
That dinner scene in Episode 5ā¦ wow. And theyāre doing such a good job of developing the non-main characters as well.
The official podcast is worth a listen. Theyāll sometimes go into traditional Japanese aspects of the show, little details you donāt need to know to enjoy it (e.g. seating arrangements in the house), but are still cool to learn about.
But Iām probably biased because a big chunk was filmed in my hometown! Like, seriously local, as in my parentsā view looks out at an old mill site where lots of the filming was apparently done. But all behind screens that prevented interesting gossip.
Wellā¦ thereās no accounting for taste. To each their own. 
Whoops! Iām only on episode 4! 
Huh? Are you Japanese? Or were parts of it filmed in the west?
Great series. Great performances/actors, direction, pacing, cinematography, practical effects, score, everything, just great. I have seen bits of the early 1980s series and itās pretty good too, but this is definitely the superior version.
Tbf, I thought episode 4-5 were the most interesting so far. 5 had been the most intense so far.
Finished the miniseries which concluded last week. I ā¦ donāt regret spending my time watching it. It wasnāt bad, and had fleeting moments of ā¦ well, not ābrillianceā or even āgreatnessā, but āpretty goodness.ā
But it wasnāt very good and I wonāt rewatch it. Overall, the story lacked coherence (even though itās supposedly based on a true story) because subplots were introduced and then dropped left and right, and pacing was out the window (6 months would go by without any indication about the passage of time). You also followed the two main characters who had a jarring narrative shift from being in a show about bomber pilots to suddenly being POWs playing out a tedious version of āThe Great Escape.ā And donāt even get me started on the weird Tuskegee airmen episode that came out of nowhere. Like I said some good scenes, especially the aerial combat. Okay, the good scenes were almost exclusively the ones involving aerial combatā¦ but there was a lot of it, at least in most episodes. Best I can give it is probably 6/10. It was certainly no āBand of Brothersā, thatās for sure.