Those who’re more buttoned-up, like Ah Sahm and Bill O’Hara (Kieran Biew), are also stuck in place more poor Bill is still working as Zing’s (Dustin Nguyen) debt collector, using money taken from him to buy steak for his family, which doesn’t go unremarked upon by his wife, Lucy (Emily Child). These changes are small and mostly cosmetic, but they give Warrior season 2, episode 1 a slightly different vibe than the first season. Idealism and pragmatism continue to be at war in this period San Francisco, although admittedly now it’s beginning to resemble a more fantastical version of history than the one you might read about in a book. You see this with a strikingly-outfitted Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng) and Ah Sahm the latter wants to take extracurricular vengeance on a new gang called the Teddy Boys, while the former is worried about the attention that’ll bring to their exploits and the price that’ll have to be paid for it. The balance is a constant push-pull between making sure things stay the same to allow for change to be worked on behind the scenes. That’s the theme of “Learn to Endure or Hire a Bodyguard”. Samuel is clearly driven mad by Sophie, but her youthful idealism, admittedly born of entitlement, is a promising character trait for shaking up the status quo. We see the latter interact with Dylan Leary (Dean Jagger) and, most notably, Mayor Samuel Blake (Christian McKay) and his wife Penelope (Joanna Vanderham). New characters such as the aforementioned Rosalita and Sophie Mercer (Celine Buckens) are fun mostly for how they shake up established dynamics. We’ll see.īut you can see how Warrior Season 2 is very much a direct continuation rather than any kind of reinvention, using the worldbuilding legwork of the freshman outing as a springboard for some more fanciful elaboration on the setting and style. That might come with time, or the other bits of business might improve enough that you notice less. They’re not bad, by any means, and in fact, they’re quite good, with nice wide angles and minimal cutting, but they’re not great in the way you sometimes feel they need to be. The problem with Warrior, which you can see a bit in “Learn to Endure or Hire a Bodyguard”, is that it sometimes wants the show to rest entirely on its fight sequences – and they’re not noteworthy enough to support it. What exactly he is fighting for is obvious to the audience, if not to Ah Sahm himself.
As his new manager Rosalita Vega (Maria-Elena Laas) reminds him, he isn’t fighting for money, since Hop Wei look after their own. This is probably why Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) keeps flashing back to his whooping at the hands of Li Yong (Joe Taslim) last season as he takes on his hulking opponent in the Barbary Coast Fight Pit.
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Cinemax’s Bruce Lee-inspired original series Warrior is about fighting in ways that are obvious and ways that aren’t it loves itself some fisticuffs just for the fun of it, but that very martial art-y idea of self-reflection and learning from one’s mistakes is threaded through most of the character and story development, too.
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