Wu Tang: An American Saga (Disney+)

[DaveCinzano]

Really enjoying this, two seasons up on Disney, more hopefully to come

 

[danny la rouge]

Disney plus ain’t nothing to fuck with.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The actors look nothing like who they're playing (I saw a review in which the Ghostface Killah actor Siddiq Saunderson is described as looking more like a 90s underwear model than the squash-faced rapper he plays ) but it has good energy, and starts well before they are Wu Tang Clan with lots of low key story beats swirling around which inevitably will all come together

 

[DaveCinzano]

Disney plus ain’t nothing to fuck with.

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Prime

 

[ska invita]

how true to reality is this? looks a bit....extended

 

[Voley]

Disney plus ain’t nothing to fuck with.

Wu Tang Is For The Children.

 

[DaveCinzano]

how true to reality is this? looks a bit....extended

Broad strokes accurate; it originated with RZA, who wrote some of the episodes, and the scripts were approved by the rest of the Clan.

This article's contains spoilers but goes into some stuff in more detail:

What’s Real & What’s Not About The Wu-Tang TV Show

In late 2021, Wu-Tang: An American Saga was renewed for a third and final season. An American Saga has portrayed the formative years of the Wu-Tang Clan and some of the personal and collective obstacles…

ambrosiaforheads.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

Cannot stress this enough: THAT ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS

 

[stavros]

The actors look nothing like who they're playing (I saw a review in which the Ghostface Killah actor Siddiq Saunderson is described as looking more like a 90s underwear model than the squash-faced rapper he plays ) but it has good energy, and starts well before they are Wu Tang Clan with lots of low key story beats swirling around which inevitably will all come together

I remember when I first watched The Wire I thought, wow, Cheese looks really like Method Man.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Season 3 has dropped on D+

 

[spitfire]

I didn’t know this was a thing. Will give it a whirl. I’m reading 36 chambers (or whatever it’s called). Have been for a year or 2, keep putting it down and forgetting it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Season 3 has dropped on D+

Would definitely say less good overall, but with some enjoyable touches. Watching well off dudes just not as exciting. The fantasy episodes (blaxploitation by Mario van Peebles, gangsta movie by Matthew Ross, martial arts Wizard of Oz by RZA) were very patchy, but had their moments, and were at least different.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I'm not really a wu tang clan fan but thought this might be interesting. I am only one and a half episodes in, but notice that it goes on for three series. . . seems quite long for an origin story.
I was hoping for more music and musical development, but it seems far far more focused on drug deals and gang warfare. Should I continue?