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blackmarketmafia t1_ixefues wrote

Reply to comment by SprinklesCharming382 in 'Tokyo Vice' Season 2 at HBO Max Casts Takayuki Suzuki by MarvelsGrantMan136

Show is missing a few things but couldn’t agree more, the Tokyo vibe makes you feel like you live there

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MattseW t1_ixf8q0l wrote

This makes sense because there really is no closure to anything in the season finale. Excited to see how it wraps up next season.

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AdviceNotAskedFor t1_ixfes88 wrote

Yeah we thought we missed something

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Remarkable-Ad-2476 t1_ixfwzfc wrote

I didn’t even know the finale was the finale until there weren’t any more episodes to watch

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Hooterdear t1_ixg0a04 wrote

Exactly. We never returned to the very first scene of the first episode. It's all been flashback... I think?

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LigmaSack69 t1_ixgs5oz wrote

Yeah horrible season finale. When it ended I was like “that’s it?”. Was a little pissed. All I know is that shit better go down in the first episode of the second season or I will once again be a little pissed.

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Hooterdear t1_ixg0ici wrote

Mann's last TV production, Luck, also had production issues and had to eventually get canceled.

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MikeArrow t1_ixes827 wrote

It was an odd duck, I really liked parts of it and other parts just dragged on. I can't bring myself to care about Rachel Keller's character, even with her whole Mormon backstory.

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rood_sandstorm t1_ixesq78 wrote

Easily the worst written character. Could just remove her or turn her into a smaller side character

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idontknowyet t1_ixfbdwv wrote

I’ve read the book it’s based on and it seems like they took multiple female characters from the book and molded them all together into her. Wasn’t a fan either, but the separate characters would have dragged out the story into multiple avenues. I guess they did it to be more concise.

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doodler1977 t1_ixfft8x wrote

yeah, i FF'd thru everything with her subplots. did not care, and it did not matter. no effect on the other plots

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HotelFoxtrot87 t1_ixeuuwu wrote

I didn’t mind her for the most part, but they had her being really stupid in the last couple episodes.

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sparklingvireo t1_ixizf1y wrote

It didn't make sense. She had the choice to eat her financial losses (possibly going bankrupt) and start over, or in-debt herself to the Yakuza, which everyone knows is not something you can easily get out of, if ever.

I get that she didn't want to give up her goal of being her own boss and hostess-bar owner, but what she chose was to accept Yakuza assistance, making her bar essentially, but not legally, theirs and she knew it.

Moving cities and starting over would at least grant her self-control. She wouldn't owe the Yakuza anything.

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qb1120 t1_ixeuhlh wrote

Yeah, I think it I would have enjoyed it more if Sato was the main focus

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tonelander t1_ixettbj wrote

Yep. Didn’t give one monkeys left goolie about her, totally predictable.

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gears50 t1_ixfud4i wrote

Agreed, she definitely seemed more like a vessel to move along Sato's story and character

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Thelastmudra t1_ixhd3j9 wrote

That's because she's the worst

In fact the show would've been fine if it was just sato

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Powderfingers t1_ixf9so2 wrote

Binged this show with the wife after I came home from a business trip to Tokyo, during my stay I couldn't wait to go home, when we watched this I was yearning to go back.

The setting and atmosphere is spot on. Biggest surprise of the year.

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Thelastmudra t1_ixhcxkz wrote

Tokyo is the best character of the show

Then it's sato

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