This Underappreciated HBO Show Is Perfect For Martial Arts Fans

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Hollywood just doesn't produce martial arts movies the way they used to. Their golden age is long gone, but the genre still has plenty of interesting stories to tell. This one, for example, comes from the mind of the biggest name in martial arts movie history. Warrior began its first season in 2019, its second season premiered in 2020, and it was picked up for a third season in late 2021, ensuring the show will continue. The series was developed for TV by novelist Jonathan Tropper and executive produced by regular Fast & Furious director Justin Lin but originates from a script written in 1971 by the one and only Bruce Lee.

There was a not-insignificant period of time in America when martial arts movies were more commonly referred to as Bruce Lee movies. Not unlike when every game system was misguidedly called a Nintendo. There is no better known martial arts film star and probably no better known martial artist than the man born Lee Jun-fan. The Big Boss, Fist of Fury, Way of the Dragon, Enter the Dragon, and The Game of Death are the five Hong Kong action films that Lee made the landmark for the genre.

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On top of starring in the great films of the genre, Lee created his own martial art which has gone on to inform martial arts media even today. Lee also wrote and directed Way of the Dragon, and had a pile of projects he wrote that never made it to the screen after his tragic death. Many of his pitches still sit unproduced, but decades later, a work of his called Ah Sahm found its way to a big-budget adaptation for TV.

Warrior is the tale of the formerly titular Ah Sahm, a master martial artist and Chinese immigrant to San Francisco in the late 1870s. The show is one part period