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I typically don't get worked up over a show. Some that come to mind for me is the X-Files, after a couple seasons had gone by and the alien storyline was really starting to develop, Seinfeld, once again after a couple seasons had gone by and the writing was starting to really get good. Most other shows that I've gotten into I liked, but I wasn't impatiently waiting for the next episode to come out.

This series has started out very well. It's developing storylines and hence the different actors and their parts in the big puzzle.

I'm not going to say the acting is superb, but it's certainly good enough. The show itself is centered on the Chinese experience and perspective of San Francisco Chinatown during the time that the Tong Wars were heating up, so you already have the crime patterns already set up when the main character crosses and ends up in San Fran. Most of the characters then don't understand English, some do. You catch on quickly though, and so you don't have to spend your time reading subtitles the actors speak English and it's implied when they are speaking Chinese. From time to time the show hits you with some subtitled Chinese just to remind you of this. Very well done IMO.

The camera work is SUPERB. The drama is SUPERB. The action is EXCELLENT. The amount of humor thrown in is EXCELLENT.

I've made it through the first 5 episodes and am impatiently waiting for the 6th, and am VERY happy to see season 2 is already planned. Hopefully the quality of the show will remain as good as it is now, and considering the time period they're covering and the events that can take place I assume that this show has at LEAST 3 excellent seasons in store.

I would say I wish a studio would have taken on this Bruce Lee venture years before, but I have to say the camera work and image quality is so good that it would have been a loss for it to have been made with lesser quality imaging. I'm hoping that this will look great in UHD so when I buy the disks I can enjoy even higher quality video than I get from watching this on Cinemax which is coming in @ 720p where I live.

Rotten Tomatoes says this: "Though it often buckles under the weight of its lofty ambitions and ideological pedigree, Warrior's devil may care attitude provides thrilling energy and action that will please those looking for a period drama with a little kick."

I don't know what that's supposed to mean, maybe the writer of the comment is getting too fancy with words and the full meaning is getting lost on himself/herself. I know this though, I have no problem following the storylines, and this particular time period and events were violent, so I would say there's no gratuitous violence and I'm not getting the buckling under any weight of anything. The show is moving at a nice pace right now, although if I were to make any complaint about it, it would be that I wish the writers could have come up with a 16 - 20 episode 1st season, just so they could slow it down a little bit and provide more entertainment. Hopefully the second season will have more episodes than this first season is going to have.

People, when you watch documentaries and feel you could be watching the same thing as was broadcast on some other network, say PBS or BBC, it's probably true.

But that doesn't mean they are knockoffs and judging a DOC on that merit alone is not fair to the different networks. These networks co-produce a lot of documentaries, so that they don't have to do all the work themselves, as is the case with this DOC. It was co-produced by the BBC and the Science Channel. It says so in the credits, for both network's episodes.

I've seen DOCS that were co-produced by National Geographic, PBS, BBC, Arte, and even more including Canada's public TV (whose acronym slips my mind at the moment).

The different networks will release their own versions, and sometimes they can be a year or two off from each other based on the workload of that network. Each network will have their own narrator. Each will set the time of episodes based on how they do commercials, which tend to go something like, American releases other than PBS are 40 minutes long for an hour episode, PBS are around 50 minutes and BBC tend to be around 55 minutes.

I just checked "BBC Horizon Jupiter Revealed" released in 2018. The end credit, the VERY end credit that lists the network and year released says: A BBC Studios co-production with Science Channel.

Be fair people and understand how DOCs are made if you're going to leave comments about them or rate them.

Strong points: The MUSIC! Excellent production and performance of the music. I don't think it could have been done any better and am glad Lady Gaga was the female vocalist for this. The acting was also excellent, which is surprising considering Lady Gaga has spent a career making music, so another WELL DONE!

Weak point: The pacing. Mind you, I rated this movie 8/10, so I didn't see it as a failure, but the pacing is uneven. The beginning meet between the couple is done well, but takes some time, and to be able to maintain putting that much into different parts of the couple's relationship would have turned the movie into a 2.5 hour production, which I would have liked better, but I don't mind long movies when done well. What happens is some of the dialog that comes out doesn't seem like there's much backstory for it. So towards the end, the movie gives a snippet of a timestamp in the relationship, then another, then another, and is too rushed. I would have liked those snippets to be a little longer so it didn't feel kind of choppy at the end. It was a good enough storyline to add the additional 15 minutes.