S01.E04 Square

[arc]

Hah, CSUSG is (at least partly) LA City College, which I only recognize because Community also used LACC for exterior shots.

The color grading in these CSUSG shots is distractingly yellow. I guess it's refreshing for an American show to put the 'shithole country filter' on American territory instead of somewhere overseas.

I liked the pre-summit meeting in the Korean restaurant and the whole Chinese-Korean dynamic in there. Drowsy Chan was a terrific antagonist; shame he's gone after one episode.

Super petty acting quibble: when Grace handed Bruce a can (light beer?), he totally didn't sell that it wasn't empty. It's just about how he sort of looked at it and it tipped a little in his hand and it was obvious the can was empty in real life, even though it wasn't opened yet. I wish props would have cups and cans half-filled with sand to give them a little more weight.

Ka Spa is probably the fictionalized version of LA's Wi Spa, a mega-spa. The big box store of Korean spas.

Blood Boot's fighting was fantastic. And Xing's was really solid too, esp since I didn't think Jenny Yang had martial arts experience; I mostly know of her as a stand-up comic.

Holy shit, after a martial arts battle that killed about a dozen henchmen, followed up by a grenade that killed a dirty cop, this little anti-triad war might have also started a war between the triads and the Korean gangs of LA. Also, whether or not the two main triads of Taiwan had a secret common enemy or not, they'll almost certainly be at odds now with both Sleepy and Drowsy killed.

[PrincessPurrsALot]

That was a great reveal at the spa having the henchmen come up from the tubs.  They did a wonderful job of continuing the issue of Bruce's limited knowledge of Chinese impacting his ability to help / understand what is going on. 

Charles is a weirdly honorable sociopath.  

[chediavolo]

I just found this show and I’m watching it more for the family dynamics than all the fighting. But what happened to the girl from episode three? And where did these two new people sitting at the table in the beginning of the episode come from and who are they?