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Just doing what B8 does best. I tried compiling from my watch history across streaming services, but only Netflix is particularly reliable, and I also watched on other people's accounts. But anyway, here we go. About 40 shows and 32 movies.

Series 40. Giri/Haji (Netflix 8-episode miniseries, 2019)

Man, this had so much potential. Kenzo is a Japanese cop sent to London to retrieve his previously-thought-dead yakuza brother Yuto, who's murdered a fellow yakuza and triggered a gang war in Japan. Its gunfights are ridiculously stylized.

The problem with this show begins with its melodrama. Characters acting like it's the END OF THE WORLD can heighten viewer emotion, but this show cranks it up huge. Making it worse, though, is the number of shitty subplots we're forced to entertain. Other than the gang war and Kenzo, we're pelted with Kenzo's daughter and a random half-British, half-Japanese sex worker in London. Shockingly, Kenzo's daughter's main role is to get into trouble and get kidnapped. We're also force-fed an abominable romance between Kenzo and a British cop. They have zero chemistry and hey, why not put more pressure on Kenzo's wife, who at least is doing good things over in Japan.

I will say that the show is very ambitious, and there are some really entertaining gunfight scenes. It can be shockingly violent at times - lots of lovingly filmed bullets to the brain at unexpected times. But we're talking about a show where every character is either awful or tedious, and it literally culminates in a minutes-long, worldless interpretive dance sequence.
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