the best show I've seen in a long time
I have not read the book, so now that I am I might change my opinion on the series ... but I found this show just incredible. From casting, to acting, to story, to sets, to music. I want to watch it again after I finish the book. The one thing that really threw me off was the contacts that they put on Cosmo Jarvis as John Blackthorn. I noticed them as soon as the show started and I thought that maybe they looked that way because he had scurvy. Lol! Why not find a blue-eyed actor? Jarvis was very good as Blackthorn ... but those contacts were always obvious. I really wanted to binge the whole show at once, but I made myself watch two episodes a night to make it last. I love a story that doesn't flinch from the dark, uncomfortable, heartbreaking, the horrifying, and the mistakes made by characters followed by true consequences. Blackthorn's discovery of Japan and its people, next to their discovery of Blackthorn, was fascinating and I wonder what it really was like back then.
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