I write this column between disappointment and annihilation, barely a few hours have passed since the broadcast of the penultimate episode of Shogun and no one has stopped me on the street to talk about her. The fruit seller insisted on boasting about the freshness of the spinach that he had just received instead of questioning the reasons for the animosity between Lady Ochiba and Toronaga; My tax advisor wasted our time with trifles about the papers that I submitted late every quarter when the only thing I wanted to talk about was Mariko's dignity. I leaned on the bar of a bar expecting a barrage of opinions about the strange neighborhood that the clergy and prostitutes will form in Edo, but incomprehensibly everyone seemed to be more interested in the cruel fate of the Spanish teams in the Champions League.
There is barely a week left until we say goodbye to the sibylline Yabushige and I don't see flags at half-mast in the television stores. I have already decorated mine with black crepe. I don't know how I'm going to face the last episode if I haven't yet been able to digest the sixth. The ladies of the Sauce world, prodigiously written by Maegan Houang, it contains the most sexual sequence of the season, although there is nothing in it that we canonically understand by sex, Mariko and Anjin do not even touch their lips, there is no nudity, their bodies, anchored to the tatami, do not touch, there is barely a furtive touch of hands between them, but if there were a ranking of hot moments of the year no one would take her off the podium. That sex that was not defines what it is Shogun: subtle, dramatic, self-absorbed.
There is a lot of substance in the Disney+ series: war, politics, faith, wonder, but above all there is a deep respect for the viewers. It is not complacent, it does not want to please us at all costs nor does it lower the bar to make us feel smarter, it does not allow furtive glances at the cell phone because nothing really important is verbalized and, like all the series that made us fall in love with television fiction, it suits The pause is very good, the weekly broadcast allows you to savor its multiple layers calmly. At a time when platforms devalue their catalogs by cramming them with realities about mediocre and truculent characters true crime, jewelry like Shogun They remind us that this is what we expected from them when we subscribed. How can I not be crying for her already?
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