Is This New ASIAN HBO Show the BEST YET? 

Despite being an American tv drama, most cast are from Canada. One of them is the first actual Vietnamese refugee in Toronto and the famous host from Paris by Night is playing her deceased mother in the drama.

As an Asian guy who trained for five years to earn my black belt. I kinda expect tough guys on screen to be more than simply some actor with a tattoo and gun. Learn combat skills. Btw, the new Karate Kid movie stars an Asian teen(with black belt) alongside Jackie Chan and Daniel-san.

Hoa Xuande is full Viet he just plays a half guy

It's one of the best series not just vietnamese!!!

I saw the first episode and I thought it was good. IMO all children of Vietnamese immigrants are told stories of the war. Me being my parent's first child born in America I was told these stories too, but it was hard to connect or really imagine it. The show gave me a visualization of what people went through that I didn't have. I mean the whole escape scene, that's scary stuff. Some of the characters bring creditability to show, the wife of the general is the daughter of the prime minster at the time of the fall. It was pretty eye opening. I hope you guys watch it and come back and share what you think.

2:42 it’s like infernal affairs. You couldn’t really tell which side Andrew Lau’s character was really at… he was just trying to survive by any means.

Hoa Xuande killed it as the Vietnamese guy in Ronnie Chieng's International Student 😂😂

My only complaint about this show is the main character played by Hoa Xuande doesn't look anything like half Viet-half French. He looks more like mixed with Cho Lon's Chinese. I know quite a number of Vietnamese mixed with French (usually their granddad/ great granddad) and there's no way a hapa would look like this. Other than that, it's a great show. Especially the scenes of Saigon pre-75, it looks so real and so close to what Saigon used to look like!

Dude, Park Chan Wook is one of the greatest directors ever. You viets are lucky you got a Korean guy directing it

Asians in general are underrated. Trying my best to grind and represent Asians in basketball content

It was made by the master Park Chan Wook and written by the Vietnamese novelist. That is why it is uncomparable with any other Hollywood factory bullsht.

Some representation is better than none.

Plenty of Asian leads in Pachinko. Ken Leung was lead in Industry. 3 Body Problem.

You have to understand that when Hollywood made the book into an HBO series, the actual story from the novel is water down and everything is exaggerated for creative effects.

Amazing show

Great show as a viet i absolutely love it

4:46 I get that we all have competing priorities, but I think the opportunities for strong Asian male characters are so few, that not supporting this *has* set us back. Even if you are optimistic that the candle will eventually burn to that point, it is burning way too slow.

Hollywood stuff is now average at best. The kDrama stuff is now the greatest. Hopefully, this is the kDrama stuff with Viets.

If it doesn't star a "Kevin Nguen" type character it's not legit.

It's about time that we get hard-boiled tv-series and movies from somebody else than Pentagon Sponsored stuff.

1:37 - seven seas? 😂

Banana fever 😆😄😂

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s name is pronounced Vee-et Tahn N’win!

I'm old enough to remember when Viet Thanh Nguyen said that Communism is worse than American and British imperialism so I already know this is gonna be some bulljive😂

Park Chan-Wook is one of my favorite filmmakers, so I'm looking forward to watching this show. But as far as supporting Asian male shows or movies, as long as the content is good, I'll support it. But to just say that you have to support this show or that movie because the star is Asian, is non sense to me. There are tons of crappy shows and movies that I don't watch even though the main cast are Asians. I support contents that's entertaining to me wether the show or movie contains Asians or not.

The subtitles were annoying. I saw the first episode and that was a wrap for me.

I SAW YOUR MOM!!! :)

It’s not authentic until there’s some awkwardly shoehorned white guy in the story lmaoooo

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60 percent of the worlds populace is Asian, but majority dont speak English, so I'm not sure how well it will really do

Hollywood is going down in quality

I'm Vietnamese and I can't watch 20minute of the episode. The lines and script sounds like straight from google translate, very unnatural and annoying

I thought Shogun was/is the greatest Vietnamese series ever

fake story😂

Ho Chi Minh is a hero

Why do these guys have to act like clowns?

Just about almost every American made show starring Asian Americans ends up getting canceled after a few season.

Don’t forget. Pachinko. Industry. 3 Body Problem.

I saw both seasons of quantum leap and it was a good middle of the road show. Nothing ground breaking and the writing could have been better and less trope heavy. The main character being a korean immigrant is brought up a few times from him having regrets about his relationship with his mother who died when he was very young to a storyline where he and magic (his boss in the show who's black) travel to LA during the rodney king riots and how it wrecked relations between the Korean and black communities. Him marrying a white woman and being in an interracial relationship is discussed in the show a little better than some network shows. There was a nonbinary msin character who was the tech genius in the group, they played dream in the sandman series, this character helped the show explore transgebder and queer issues but really only got 2 episodes to directly address these issues, thry still got some key development in the story though. There's another asian character in the show that was a criminal but because of her boss got a secind chance and became the head security officer for the whole project. There were sone good stories in the show exploring different parts of history but overall it was a pretty mid tier show.

I have been pretty confused about whether this is good representation for Asian men. It seems like it supports the belief that all Asian men are communist spies.