User Reviews

**First off, disregard the few very low scores and comments. I read them all and they were basically all trolling comments and ratings ** That said, the show wasn't perfect in the first few scenes but it really pulled itself together and shaped up really well to end (2 seasons so far) with a strong ending and interesting cliffhangers! The 1st episode of season 1 was so so but every subsequent episode just got better and better! A very interesting story that comes from true history and needs more attention (especially now, when all the whitewashed chapters of our history are finally being told and told truthfully) & a really sharp martial arts action series. Unlike Into The Badlands which I couldn't get into because the choreography (although stunning) was unbelievable and the storyline was uninteresting, Warrior has way better writing and action that is more realistic (of course some is over the top but that's lthe point when it focuses on Ah-Sahms fights. He personifies Bruce Lee's larger than like persona) in many cases. I'm really glad I found this series. I binged it all in 2 days. I'm eagerly awaiting and hoping that although Cinemax is no longer renewing its shows that HBO max which absorbed the properties renews this one as was promised and as many many fans are awaiting. I can't see why they wouldn't. Can't recommend Warrior enough to martial arts & historical piece (the sets and costumes are excellent and fit the late 1800's perfectly!) lovers! 9/10!

I just finished the second episode and I am hooked. The characters are all very interesting. The main character is quite likable and all the role players are strong. The production value is great. The action is exciting. There isn't anything about this show that annoys me. It's very stylistic and pushes the story forward with a good brisk pace. The women on this show are HOT and it kinda makes me wish I lived in this world. PS - I've never been a big fan of martial arts stories but this show makes me want to watch a lot more of them.

Back in the day where Chinese immigrants arrived in San Francisco , U.S.A, a lone wolf came with serious fighting skills. So far, I like what I see. I'm going to watch it with enthusiasm. Check it out.

Warrior is one of the best and most underrated shows of the last decade. It's hard for me to even describe how much I love this show. Everything from the acting to the writing to the production is fantastic! All you have to do is read through the reviews to see how loved this show really is. A lot of fans were worried when Cinemax announced they won't be making shows anymore but fortunately for us fans HBO Max picked it and season three is right around the corner. It was so deserving of another season, hopefully with HBO Max's platform and the great word of mouth that the fan base will continue to grow. I can't wait to see more of this incredible show!

One of the best shows I've ever seen. The story, the setting, the history, the characters, the cinematography, the ACTION...just...WOW! Everything is amazing, and it just gets better and better as the series moves along. The buildup is something else, and the second to last episode of season 2 needs to be seen to be believed! They BETTER not cancel this, and give us a third season! The story is still unresolved. In any case, go watch this right now if you haven't already!

Warrior is a flat out awesome show that really does deserves a lot more attention than it's been getting as it's one of the better shows on right now! For some reason Cinemax hasn't done a very good job promoting this series (or any of their series really) but people are finally starting to figure out how good this show really is through word of mouth! It's just an awesome, action packed thriller with a great story, great acting and even better fight scenes! Give it a chance, I promise you won't be disappointed!

The most underrated show. Good story, fantastic action, great acting and ultimate characters. Loved the show.

This series is really promising. It has all the ingredients to be as good as Banshee or Peaky Blinders. The mixture of both worlds made this series born. Hopefully it will become a masterpiece.

The most underrated series out there that I got to know while looking at and reading some list of renewed shows! Can you imagine that?!

A blend of awesome 19th century SF screenplay & storylines, ultra-superb acting with deep intensity, amazing development, meticulous attention to details and a completely enthralling score makes this series like the GoT of the 19th century, with one exception and that is all its episodes are stellar. 20 shiny episodes for the pleasure of our eyes and music to our ears.

• (+) Amazing screenplay, storylines and plots, the size of ten skyscrapers and the shininess of diamonds.

• (+) Superb acting by who? Everybody!, especially shiny are Ah Sahm, Li Yong, Ah Toy, Mai Ling, Wang Chao, Young Jun, Bill O'Hara, Dylan Leary, Penelope Blake, Walter Buckley among others. Please know, I wanted to line-up the whole cast, so you get the real picture; that's how good, worthy and stellar they are.

• (+) Award-winning development in all episodes, very few seen and encountered at such a high level.

• (+) Enthralling, 3D, multi-faceted score, well fitted with every scene, accompanying fights and emotions alike.

Every time I see Mai Ling, I'm mesmerized by the beauty, soft voice and ultra-charismatic aura of this woman. She's the show's female character so dear to my heart. Dianne Doan is hugely talented and the character of Mai ling fits her like a glove.

Warrior doesn't shy away from nothing, shows everything with deep pictures and caressing brutality and from those comes its force, shaking us like "des fétus de paille". We are nothing but straws going left and right by Warrior's gusts of wind.

That's how awesome this show is and I'm sure that its success will grow larger and larger until all relevant humans on earth are aware of it. I'm enthusiastic about it and believe in it.

If you are to bow to this show, "Bow Low"...

Some of the acting feels a little shaky in initial episodes, but once it gets rolling the show is engaging. There are likeable characters, people to root for. The racial dynamics are pretty much what was going on in San Francisco in the 1800s, so there was no need to exaggerate. The writers do a good job of showing the full spectrum of human behavior; not all of the white guys are evil, not all of the Asians are good.

Hoon Lee, the guy who plays Wang Chao, stands out as a great actor. Something magnetic about that dude.

This show is absolutely epic! I've been waiting for years for a realistic martial arts series that had some historical backdrop. The acting is superb and the fight sequences are top notch. I would highly recommend anyone interested in a period martial arts series

Finally some good news afte waiting for a fair bit. Season 3 is gonna start production. Its been a while. The first 2 seasons were brilliant . Very good production indeed not sure why it took so long for the 3rd season.

I just discovered this show today and watched 10 straight episodes on HBO Max. It's epic and amazing. I think this show will be as big as Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, etc. It's so unique but I'll try to explain. It feels like Gangs of New York set in San Francisco during the Gold Rush, with political machinations , epic fights, and some nudity. Not kid appropriate. I really feel like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones fans will love this show. I also heard it's developed from notes written by Bruce Lee 50 years ago which is a cool tidbit. Incredible show. HBO Max has a winner here.

Fight scenes are nice, but most of them are shot in the dark, so you are not able to see anything. The idea of the series is good, but the way it was implemented is very bad. I do not know people think that a lot of profanity and nude scenes make a series better and more realistic. Also dialogues are really bad. The producers tried to show how different cultures behave, but failed. The Chinese characters are more like Italian gangsters than Chinese.

In summary - The series were promising, but failed to deliver.

Three minutes into this show and I was ALL IN! It has everything I want in a show. I felt like Cinemax should've knocked on my door and said, "YO CHECK THIS OUT"! I see many negative reviews on here. I'm guessing those to be written by people that like musicals or boring artsy films. If you like crime and action movies? Then you'll say F@#$ YEAH! If you don't? Go watch La La Land, The Artist, or Eat Pray Love. You know films that should make a man contemplate committing seppuku rather than sit through.

Not quite sure why a few have given it bad reviews I thought it was brilliant good storyline with a good backdrop its merged modern film but still has the perfect slice of old school martial arts film. Acting is great people giving it bad reviews must of never seen a decent old school martial arts film I personally think this style of filming old school/new school mix is the key to keeping the original martial arts style films alive. If you are a youngster giving it bad reviews on the martial arts acting style then you are wrong go back and watch a classic then come back and review. This is the perfect blend and the future of classic martial arts films cant wait for more episodes

Couldn't find anyting to watch, so i thought hmm, I mean, i like material arts movies and Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee and gave it a go. And man I was blowned away, so fricking good, action and fight scenes in the approximately 1870s, I totally love it! Highest score! 🇺🇲

A show that's not the same reality garbage that every channel now seems to have. The story is great and they haven't even really finished with it yet. The action is fun and realistic (most of the time) and the acting is better then you would think. I really like to this show

I love this show. I was looking for something similar to Banshee and this fit the bill. The show is so fun to watch, we have enjoyed every minute of it. I cannot wait to get more!

This is really an underappreciated show. All those fighting scenes are great, the punching, the kicking and the dicing, so real. The story is interesting, too. You can see the logic of characters' motives. Besides, the cinematography is great. Looking forward to season 3 !!!

Almost jammed everything and anything that could be found and put all the ingredients into a very ridiculous melting pot, showing how the Chinese immigrants lived and suffered before they were evicted by the discrimination law to ban the Chinese entering America and to purge those who already lived on American soil for long time. The epic center was San Francisco, its China Town. The cruelty of the Whites, the struggling Chinese labors, the dirty White politicians and the police, the Irish thugs, the discrimination against women and their rights...The Tongs, Jesus, so overly exaggerated and dramatized. Weird costumes wearing by the Chinese. All the Chinese with better education background speaking fluent American English. The killings, murders, fighting scenes are over-the-top dramatized but also extremely cool and bloody. Not a bad series, but worry about running off the mill in the later seasons and losing control, then suddenly stop the production like lot of other drama series when spinning off the track.

This series is not for female viewers but for the blood thirst video gamers who already got used to the bloody killings in their beloved and engrossed video games.

In my opinion, it is a fairly well-developed series, but with details that, from my point of view, are not developed or at least could have been better than that, as well as the story line, which, following with little attention, can become repetitive , the actions focusing only on certain characters bringing to light topics already debated throughout the series, making it a little repetitive. In no way is it a cheap or poorly made series, on the contrary I would recommend anyone to watch it if they have time, but not more than for a lazy weekend when you have nothing to do and want a pretty decent series.

I love this show! It's got everything I love in a show it's a period drama, romance, old style gangs, sexy, good story line and great fight scenes! Keep em coming!

I'm two episodes in so far. I like the general idea of the show, but it has some shortcomings. What I do like are the fight sequences. And the nudity. I'll watch it some more just for those things. I'm not that hard to please. But if you like period dialogue, drop all expectations that characters will talk anything like someone from the 1870s would. They use modern day phrases and swear words. Little effort was made in that regard. Deadwood at least made some effort. Also, I can't think of a more boring and generic title for the show. Even just calling it Tong Warrior would have been better.

Bruce Lee said "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." This is not it.

What we do have is a protagonist who drops the f-bomb every other word, bullies the elderly, murders at will, and beats everyone else up to a bloody pulp.

As others have pointed out, the high ratings for this mess of humanity it mind-boggling. The entire cast use language, colluiqoalisms and mannerisms that are right out of 2020. Gone are the gentle manners of both men and women in the late 19th Century.

The Chinese are portrayed as whimpish, subservient rabble, enslaved by other Chinese. The Irish are loud, drunk and always beating on women and police.

Everyone is crooked.

The writers even managed to make a grotesques and vile joke about Catholics Nuns in the very first episode.

And did we mention the prostitutes? There are prostitutes everywhere! All supermodels, of course, with perfectly styled hair, modem make up and laser hair removal.

The only saving grace are the costumes and the fight choreography - the rest of the show - the music, sounds, lighting, shots, cinematography, acting, dialog; mindless idiocy.

Master Lee also said: "Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. "

This crime against humanity is anything but water.