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Unsettled Scores: WARRIOR Season Three – Zing’s Revenge, Leary’s Rise, And O’Hara’s ‘White Mountain’

It’s possible the ends justified the means for San Diego’s finest, Sgt. Bill O’Hara (Kieran Bew). Of course, that all depends on what happens in season three of hit HBO Max series, Warrior, which is set to arrive in June, and while we await the next update, I’m continuing this short series of articles to discuss some of the key arcs that play out in the current two-season run. As noted last week, this series dives into spoiler territory, so if you haven’t seen the show yet since it began its run in 2019, turn back now and feel free to come back to this piece another time. The show’s roaring introduction to the role of Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) extends further into the first season as the fledgling hatchet man for the Hop Wei’s first brush with the law sees him get thwacked by O’Hara, who has plenty of […]

Warrior – Season 1: Episode 8 “They Don’t Pay Us Enough to Think” The Downward Spiral

Kyle Wong

The episode immediately starts from episode 7 with the Hop Wei and the Long Zi charging at each other in the streets of Chinatown. Both sides experiencing casualties in a bloody battle.Penny wakes up to Mayor Blake and Buckley discussing a solution for the Chinatown brawl. Buckley tells Mayor Blake must side with Senator Crestwood with handling the Chinatown violence leaking out. Penny hears the news as she worries and Blake gives the railway contract to Byron, inviting him to a dinner in Crestwood’s honor.Wang Chao visits the Hop Wei to discuss a resolution with Mai Ling, Father Jun accepts the meeting as he tells Young Jun that they must fight smarter and wanting to understand Mai Ling’s motives as he knew Long Zii’s.Father Jun and Young Jun meet with Mai Ling and Li Young coming to terms of not breaking their truce. Lao Ting proposes a fight between a […]

Warrior – Season 1: Episode 6 “Chewed Up, Spitted Out and Stepped On” What Family Really Means

Kyle Wong

This link was shared by a friend on Facebook and I wish to share it on this review as San Francisco’s Chinatown is slowly vanishing. As the main setting of the series and the entry point of many Chinese immigrants who managed to make a better life for themselves and their families, it has come to a point where it might disappear. This is history and this community has survived through the Chinese Exclusion Act, Black plague, gang wars and natural disasters. After this review, please click the link and help support San Francisco’s Chinatown. Episode 6 starts out with a bang… Yes I made a sexual innuendo as Ah Sahm and Penny reunite after Nevada, while Chinatown celebrates Chinese New Year. O’Hara and Lee patrol the streets during the lion dance and festivities while the Long Zi try to assassinate Father Jun via bombing. O’Hara returns home to find […]

Warrior – Season 1: Episode 4 “The White Mountain” The Grass is Never Greener

Kyle Wong

“3 weeks, after that, you’re taking a trip to the White Mountain” –Jack Damon. I have been trying to find anything and everything if there is a definition for this term as most of the episodes have a nice nod to old terms or characters saying it in the episode. The only think I have found thanks to my mother, it is probably referring the White Mountains in California. And maybe how people died climbing up mountains but who knows. The episode starts off with Sergeant O’Hara gambling in Chinatown. Suffering loss after loss, he is helped by a former friend turned Pinkerton agent Jack Damon. Jack helps obtain a loan where O’Hara manages to get lucky but luck runs out as he is cleaned out and Jack introduces him to the Fung Hai. Jack gives O’Hara three weeks to pay the Fung Hai back or they will come for […]