Tokyo Vice - Season 2 (HBO MAX/2.8.24)
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This show delivers so many good performances. Sato, Hayama, Oyabun, Jake's boss, Ken Watanabe been certified, Tozawa, even the architect was cooking this week. The gaijin are carrying their weight too.
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It is semi-autobiographical around the time when they made the transition into those white collar territories...
Liked this episode, again, kinda heavy on the genre cliches and the foreshadowing, and coincidences and bad decisions from the characters
must have missed where Sato and Hayama got rid or abandoned the truck? and why
The scene in the room with Oyabun. "What happened to your leg" why not just tell a version of the truth? That's a hard lie to sell and keep.
Did they set that up that Hayama went to Towaza, how would they know they were at the club that night? Why hit them there?
Here's my criticism, is the action sequences don't live up to the set up. Maybe it's a budget issue. Or the director doesn't know how to shoot action. The gunfight wasn't intense enough or bloody enough, it felt like a little soft. The way the camera zoomed in on Oyabun like an old 1960's movie or something, when the gunmen came in. Like a kids movie. Very odd. Lacked tension. Lacked compelling music. That scene should have had you sitting up in your seat, when the guns come out in Gomorra, or the best of Mann's action scenes. Gunshots not loud enough.
The way the gunmen rolled in, like they had never done this before, throwing the waiter out of the way for no reason, in a very weirdly shot way--and firing randomly at the targets. The Oyabun kinda killing himself to save Sato. Throwing himself behind the couch. It just didn't feel raw or violent, it felt like PG-13 action hero stuff. That scene should have been brutal and ugly, and quick. I get the sense of the show being kinda of sanded down for wider audiences.
This is kinda delicate too, as in I am not homophobic, at all, but the inclusion of not just a gay love affair, but gay sex scenes? In a show called Tokyo Vice, that feels very forced. I saw All of Us Strangers in theaters -Doesn't bother me on that level, just a matter of why? And the answer would kinda track with the above commentary, a kind of something for everyone approach. The violence is not too violent, the sex not too sexual.
Was kinda of a nod to the Scarface scene, without the tension and the symbolism.
must have missed where Sato and Hayama got rid or abandoned the truck? and why
The scene in the room with Oyabun. "What happened to your leg" why not just tell a version of the truth? That's a hard lie to sell and keep.
Did they set that up that Hayama went to Towaza, how would they know they were at the club that night? Why hit them there?
Here's my criticism, is the action sequences don't live up to the set up. Maybe it's a budget issue. Or the director doesn't know how to shoot action. The gunfight wasn't intense enough or bloody enough, it felt like a little soft. The way the camera zoomed in on Oyabun like an old 1960's movie or something, when the gunmen came in. Like a kids movie. Very odd. Lacked tension. Lacked compelling music. That scene should have had you sitting up in your seat, when the guns come out in Gomorra, or the best of Mann's action scenes. Gunshots not loud enough.
The way the gunmen rolled in, like they had never done this before, throwing the waiter out of the way for no reason, in a very weirdly shot way--and firing randomly at the targets. The Oyabun kinda killing himself to save Sato. Throwing himself behind the couch. It just didn't feel raw or violent, it felt like PG-13 action hero stuff. That scene should have been brutal and ugly, and quick. I get the sense of the show being kinda of sanded down for wider audiences.
This is kinda delicate too, as in I am not homophobic, at all, but the inclusion of not just a gay love affair, but gay sex scenes? In a show called Tokyo Vice, that feels very forced. I saw All of Us Strangers in theaters -Doesn't bother me on that level, just a matter of why? And the answer would kinda track with the above commentary, a kind of something for everyone approach. The violence is not too violent, the sex not too sexual.
Was kinda of a nod to the Scarface scene, without the tension and the symbolism.
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Apart from that disgusting gay scene, this episode was flames. Sato being the boss now is wild
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Oyabun’s decision making this entire season has been 
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The incoming Sato vs Hayama war 
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That gay sex scene was gay 
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And why is the bartender always fukking up?
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Hayama did it right?
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Its time
Hayama did it right?
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Yea he had a look that pretty much said "I'm a spy"