ReadR


Discover Content : Trends

Discover real-time trending topics, hashtags, and content from different countries.

Top Countries

Select Country:🌐

Worldwide 🌍 | Nigeria 🇳🇬 | South Africa 🇿🇦 | Kenya 🇰🇪 |

See all other continents,locations, categories and associated headlines or trending informations here using;

America:
Canada 🇨🇦 | United States 🇺🇸

Africa:
Algeria 🇩🇿 | Egypt 🇪🇬 | Ghana 🇬🇭 | Kenya 🇰🇪 |Morocco 🇲🇦| Nigeria 🇳🇬 | South Africa 🇿🇦 |

Middle East:
Turkey 🇹🇷| Cyprus 🇨🇾 |

Europe:
Finland 🇫🇮| Hungary 🇭🇺 | Italy 🇮🇹 | Slovakia 🇸🇰 | Switzerland 🇨🇭 | United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Asia:
China 🇨🇳 |

Show more
Show less

Headline : ‘Shōgun’ Exits Not With a Bang But a Whisper — and a Place in TV History

Read more from the original article on here at www.rollingstone.com.




Tags : #shgun #exits #bang #but #whisper #place #tv #history


No. of Paragraph 14

This post contains spoilers for the finale of Shōgun.

Many years ago, when I first finished reading James Clavell’s historical epic Shōgun, I felt slightly puzzled. The novel had taken well over 1000 pages building to a civil war in feudal Japan between the wise Lord Toranaga and his ambitious rival Lord Ishido, and then it stopped right as the war was beginning, offering only the briefest of epilogues detailing what happened next? How was this good storytelling?, I wondered. Maybe there’s a sequel I don’t know about?

Soon, though, I began to recognize that depicting the battles was utterly besides the point. Shōgun is a war story, but one where the war gets won or lost before swords are even drawn. It is about Toranaga the chess master seeing 12 moves ahead, and ensuring the board will be in his favor by the time his opponent begins to press the attack. We see everything Toranaga does in regards to Ishido; to interloping English sailor John Blackthorne; to loyal but frustrated counsel Mariko; to the duplicitous Yabushige; and more. Even if you don’t know the real Japanese history that inspired the book, the outcome is inevitable. The epilogue only confirms what we already know will happen.

FX‘s big-budget Shōgun adaptation, whose finale began streaming on Hulu yesterday, did not bother with the epilogue. It instead concludes with Blackthorne (played by Cosmo Jarvis) salvaging the wreckage of his ship, the Erasmus, with help from Toranaga’s men. He glances up at Toranaga (Hioryuki Sanada), and the two uneasy allies share a silent moment of understanding, slightly nod at one another, and then Blackthorne returns to his ship while Toranaga looks up at the sky, serene and confident in what lies ahead for him.

Read more from the original article on here at www.rollingstone.com.


Related Headlines : ‘Shōgun’ Exits Not With a Bang But a Whisper — and a Place in TV History (in Google.com):

Hello, below you have a "Web" tab to read more content and an "Image" tab to get related pictures

Example : Trends, Country, News, Jobs, Scholarships, Investment, Business, Politics, Adverts, Fashion, Events, Technology and more.