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His character Toranaga is based on Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, so yeah, he'll survive. If you don't know the history of Sengoku period then read about him at least and also about William Adams, who was the real person behind the protagonist Blackthorne here.

But it's for old type of Asian period dramas where not much is going on in a single episode.
Western media moved away from such long dramas though.
Quality over quantity. And it's a trend in most modern dramas nowadays globally, with 8-16 approximately 1 hour long episodes being the norm.

That format is outdated, nobody has time for so many episodes nowadays.

ML for a supposedly smart guy is so chaotic with logic down the drain when it comes to dealing with FL. So many dumb, unnecessary moves that only made things worse 😂He's just winging it and soon gonna fall into a trap he tries to prepare for FL.
I think he should stop obsessing about getting power through his brother's marriage and make some other plans. That SFL seems like a nice person who secretly loves him and they would have made a power couple that would have given his grandpa and other people pause. But he's too blind to look around, it seems.

I also wouldn't put it past dumb writers who do often tend to think that companies are like kingdoms with absolute monarchies and succession rites, instead of business ventures where profit is king.

I dunno whether grandpa really is senile and dumb or he's playing at something, but you can't force uneducated, incompetent person to a CEO position in a company with shareholders. They vote regularly and even a company's founder can get outvoted and ousted from from ruling the company and relegated to a simple dividents taking major shareholder role.

It's not a brainless action drama. It's a period drama about politics, cultural and religious differences, about a stranger in strange lands. Clearly not for everyone.

It's no pro-Korean, it's pro-Asian. There are lots of Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian dramas here as well.
But sure, since Shogun mostly wasn't made in Asia by Asians and only actors and some of the staff are Asians then it's a good enough reason to downvote this drama here 🙄

Why blame the kid? Is he nuts?

Why does grandpa hate only ML? Aren’t both brothers his daughter’s illegitimate sons? Why is ML different and ostrasized?

Agreed, it's a solid 9 so far. Typical MDL rating.
On IMDB it's 9.2 atm.

Come on 🙄, yes yes, we know, the glasses guy is evil and involved in everything since ages ago. But 4 more episodes to nail him? After episode 12 they've really started dragging the plot out. Skippity, skip, skip...
And of course WTOD was involved, what other cliche they haven't tried here yet? Amnesia?

They're actually speaking Portuguese, but it was made for English audiences with English speaking actors so it's in English. Just pretend it's on auto dub.

He already was a CEO of that company and he didn't buy that apartment in the end. But I was talking more about the attitude which has changed.

Agreed. No real mysteries left and the leads are already together and got past the dumb obligatory break-up phase. Now they're just forcing drama to fill up the time. Does the glasses guy really require 4 more episodes to send him to jail? Or FL's brother to finally get a job? I don't really care either way...

I've been trying to figure out why this show became boring in the last few episodes. It has become a typical procedural that are dime a dozen every year. And how did that happen? I think it's because ML simply became a real cop and stopped chaebol-ing and fooling around all the time.
Now it's trying to be all serious with your typical unsolved murder of a family member that will drive the lead character to seek out the truth. FL has an unsolved case of her own too of course that is also related to her family member.

It's awesome, you should watch it.

I think it's possible. Most of the TV shows are now ordered by streaming services which are global corporations. The question is whether they've technical capabilities as advanced as American ones. From what I've seen high budget TV series from SK are getting pretty close.

Another thing of note is whether the script is good enough to pitch it internationally, which attracts more money. Shogun is based on a best-seller, globally famous novel. With plots like these you're guaranteed a hit if the writers aren't hacks with delusions of grandeur of rewriting the original script to make it "better". Original scripts are an unknown risk though, so it's a harder sell. Afaik, the only recent period drama from SK with high production quality and global acclaim was Kingdom - about Joseon era with zombies.

I think him and the other guy have a bad case of fake friendship and they're just using each other. And he has bad tendencies. I felt that he started to want that girl because the other guy liked her - he wants to take stuff from him because he himself is incompetent buffoon with low self-esteem.

Watch the movie Silence from 2016. It sort of continues the plot of Shogun just a few decades after and tells the fate of Christians when Japan started closing borders and isolating itself.