#byron wu

[geekcavepodcast]

The Brothers Sun Teaser

After the head of a powerful Taiwanese triad is assassinated, his eldest son, killer Charles "Chairleg" Sun, heads to LA to protect his mother Eillen and younger brother Bruce, who's been sheltered from the truth about his family. "But as Taipei’s deadliest societies and a new rising faction go head-to-head for dominance — Charles, Bruce and their mother must heal the wounds caused by their separation and figure out what brotherhood and family truly mean before one of their countless enemies kills them all." (Netflix)

The Brothers Sun stars Michelle Yeoh (Eileen), Justin Chien (Charles Sun), and Sam Song Li (Bruce). The drama is created by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu.

The Brothers Sun hits Netflix on January 4, 2024.

#the brothers sun #brothers sun #michelle yeoh #justin chien #sam song li #brad falchuk #byron wu #netflix #TGCLiz #Youtube

[vintagewarhol]

#the brothers sun #tv shows #netflix #brad falchuk #amy wang #byron wu #michelle yeoh #justin chlen #sam song li #illustration #vintage art #alternative movie posters

[stuff-diary]

The Brothers Sun

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

The Brothers Sun (2024, USA)

Directors: Kevin Tancharoen & Viet Nguyen

Creators: Brad Falchuk & Byron Wu

Mini-review:

This was a very fun and entertaining binge-watch, although it's rather inconsistent in almost every way: the directing, the writing, the fight scenes and the acting of the supporting cast. All these elements have good and even brilliant moments, but they also have mediocre and downright bad moments. Luckily, the three leads always keep the ship afloat with their performances. It's great to see Michelle Yeoh getting the meaty roles she deserves, and both Justin Chien and Sam Song Li are two charismatic newcomers I'll pay attention to in the future. Anyway, despite its many flaws, I enjoyed The Brothers Sun and I ended up growing fond the characters. The ending was pretty satisfactory, but it's clear the writers left doors open for further seasons, and I wouldn't mind getting more.

#the brothers sun #brad falchuk #byron wu #kevin tancharoen #viet nguyen #michelle yeoh #justin chien #sam song li #highdee kuan #joon lee #jon xue zhang #jenny yang #madison hu #johnny kou #rodney to #alice hewkin #maite garcia #dark comedy #action #taiwan #netflix #blood #tw blood #cw blood #2024 tv shows and dramas

[arsene-fixates]

Misc. SN character rambling (Gordon Byron)

I very few screenshots for whatever I’m going to ramble about on another character in seekers notes so you’re going to have to take my word for it. This is not an analysis btw i just want to talk about this guy for a bit

There’s this character, Gordon Byron, or Hyperion <- name he picked for himself I will elaborate later.

His family (made up of him, his mother, and his cousin) is a descendant of one of the founders of Darkwood (the city) and though I didn’t read too much into him, I thought his character development was quite interesting

going to be a bit long since i'm running through him as a character, spoilers under the cut

Backstory was that he had run away from home with his beloved that went missing when the curse fell upon the city but returned after realizing that he had responsibilities being the family's heir and such.

He's very quiet as a character, kept to books and nature and is a pretty big romantic but when he came back, and through the story he started getting invested in his family's history, aka. one of the founders named nostromo and his powers etc etc and also taking more initiative to help the city via. paying funds for damages and suggesting new things to keep the townspeople safe

okay to be honest theres some collecting crystal infinity stone level thing going on in the story and there's this section in the plot where gordon and i had to dive underwater to look for a stone tablet depicting one of the missing steps to getting one of the crystals

and some explosion happens and i get shot out of the water, leaving him underwater and the other characters and i are all panicking because the water breathing potion we took had some timing to it and he was about to die or something

but he emerges soon enough, with the gauntlet belonging to the founder equipped in his hand, and you can tell that this power was getting to his head

at this point, i was filling philiah in on the lore and i told her 'i think it would be really profound if he let the power get to him and influence him negatively' and lo and behold.

anyways carrying on, he started really embracing the name hyperion (a pseudonym he made up himself because if i can remember right, all the other founders also had one themselves) and having his own group of specialised guards.

then some attack happened on the city again where ghostly creatures appeared (summoned by the antagonist), and after gordon fought them off, he decided to set a curfew & interrogate all the townspeople because they could be people from a crime organisation (called the shadows) in disguise

cough cough side note, informant was telling me about how his guard kept going trying to capture him and he was frustrated that not only did he have to run from the crime organisation but he also had to run from the guard too lol.

and holy shit theres this section that especially got me where he was asking me for an update on the crystals and i told him it was going alright, letting on a little more detail than i liked and he then asks me to find more of this truth potion for him and then he says this

he slipped a truth potion !!! !! !! !!!! unknowingly!!!!!! to me!! HOLAY MOLAY!!!. and when i went to talk to charlotte, she tells me about how some of the people who took the potion were down with pretty bad illnesses and fevers. THAT IS SO WILD.

he had to be suspended of his role and his guard operations after he nearly endangered the lives of the members of the crime organisation

THERES A LOT OF STUFF THAT HAPPENS INBETWEEN BUT ITS PRETTY BIZZARE BECAUSE HIS ANGER GETS THE BETTER OF HIM (and they really did show that he gets angry easily)

holay molay this guy.

i like what they're doing here, it's really interesting ^_^ LOVE THAT THEY DID ACTUAL BUILD UP INSTEAD OF WHATEVER THEY DID WITH INFORMANT!!!!! love to see what happens to him later because currently the city is going through YET another world ending disaster and i (the seeker) have to save them.

#THEY CAN HAVE GOOD WRITING BITS!! LOVE IN THE WORLD #just wanted to talk about this guy caus he wus interesting #seekers notes #Gordon Byron (SN) #Character Rambling (SN) #<- i'll make that the tag sure.

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#irma vep #irma vep hbo #the spectre #olivier assayas #alicia vikander #byron bowers #fala chen #adria arjona #lars eidinger #devon ross #vivian wu #vincent macaigne #dope shit

[pearwaldorf]

If you have Netflix and you're not watching The Brothers Sun, please do that. A triad leader's son goes from Taipei to Los Angeles to protect his mom and brother who had to flee the country. The vibe it gives me is Leverage: good and logical characterization, where characters can only make the choices they make because it's who they are.

It's also a lot like Leverage in that the humor can be kind of goofy but in a cute way. (In episode 1 assassins are disguised in dinosaur costumes because they're infiltrating a children's birthday party okay?) It is the type of cheesy, affectionate roasting only a lover of genre can do.

As an Asian person watching something about an Asian family, I will say it gets it right. (The showrunner Byron Wu is Chinese and the writers' room is all-Asian.) There's the little details like the calendar in the kitchen and the passive-aggressive mom bullshit. And the big things, all that duty to family stuff and parent-child relationships. It is accurate to my experience, and I am grateful for it.

The show is smart and expects you to be able to understand subtext, which is kind of incredible these days. The characters aren't lobotomized and actually think about shit. Mama is playing 5D chess in the most incredible way, and I love that about her.

The character interaction is fantastic, in that you can understand everybody's motivations and relationships with each other. Nobody's wrong, but not all those paths are compatible with each other. Occasionally they can intersect, but guanxi is a very real thing in this world.

I do have to give a content warning for kinda fat shaming? One of the brother's childhood nicknames was "Little Fatty" and I swear it sounds cuter & more affectionate in Mandarin. There is cultural-context I'm not sure I can really explain that it's not as bad as it sounds, but they also could have left it out.

Here's the trailer. I hope you'll give it a chance.

#the brothers sun

[cozyaliensuperstar7]

Justin Chien 👑🤗

To all the fans of The Brothers Sun, Thank you for riding with us on this labor of love. It will take some time to digest this news, but I want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your love and support for the show. Thank you for every post, tweet, edit, interaction, etc. It fills me with so much joy knowing that the show resonated with so many people. Your love made all of our collective work, sacrifices, and heartache, worth it.

I’d like to thank Brad Falchuk, Byron Wu, Kevin Tancharoen, Jenny Jue, Viet Nguyen, Justin Yu, our incredible team of writers, the folks at Teleyvision, John Radulovic, our KICKASS crew, and our stunt team warriors for giving their blood, sweat, and tears to make the best show possible. Our show wouldn’t have been the same without their new grey hairs and sleepless nights.

Mama Sun, Sam, my fellow cast mates — TBS Family forever. 愛你們, thank you all. Thank you to Netflix for giving our story a platform and giving me the opportunity to play a dream role. Thank you Ted Sarandos, Bela Bajaria, Peter Friedlander, Cesar Rocha, Dena Qashqai, Laura Delahaye, Wendy Chuong, and Brooke Freundlich for all your labor behind the scenes and support throughout the process. Thank you all for your love. Without you, this wouldn’t mean nearly as much as it does. I gave everything I had to this show, and I can’t wait to do the same in the next project, whatever, whenever it may be — I promise I will give it my all. Love, Chairleg 椅劍敬上

No Season 2. Damn it Netflix!

#no season 2 #the brothers sun

[thegreenersideofit]

The brothers Sun

The Brothers Sun is a "Heartwarming" Gangster tale. I say heartwarming because its set with family as the backdrop. The two Brothers at the center of this amazing series on Netflix are complete opposite of each other and that is what pushes this series ahead into 8 episodes. Each episode is action packed but surely not unpredictable as you know what is coming up.

An amazing chinese styled theme sets the series off to a great start. This theme is composed By Mathew Nathan David and Nick Lee. It's this theme that caught my attention and grabbed my interest to the series. Each Episode has songs that will make you hum along and want more of these tunes. The soundtrack is worth downloading. Its sure going to be my valued soundtrack collection.

Actor Justin Chien as Charles Sun is one of the brothers, Sam Song Li as Bruce is the other brother, Academy award winner Michelle Yeoh plays mama to them. The tale revolves around this family with father Johnny Kou playing Big Sun - the head of the gangster family.

Charles stays with his dad who has turned him into a weapon to protect the family. He's a ruthless killer machine. An attack on Charles, who loves baking when he's not killing, brings his dad out from his hiding and he gets hit as he is the original target. Charles travels to Los Angeles to find and protect his mom and brother who have shifted there long ago and the entire series then shifts to LA. The women in the lives of the two brothers play a crucial role in the series. The one in Bruce's life is the head of suppressor group which is trying to right the people who have been wronged by the Triads during conflicts. In the words of her gang called Boxers " The Riddance of Evil must be thorough". They are the ones behind the attack of Charles and The Big Sun and now out to kill the heads of all the triads. That is their main aim. Since the protagonists are the Sun Brothers, Grace of THE BOXERS group can be termed as the Main Antagonist of the series despite a "good purpose" as the aim of the boxers.

The woman in Charles' life is an ambitious and righteous district attorney Alexis who ws his childhood friend. She becomes an antagonist in her quest to bring the triad heads to the prison and that means going against Charles and his Dad. This brings them at loggerheads and casts an unbridgeable divide between them. The poignancy of their separation is felt when Charles is about to leave LA and shift to Taipei to protect his mother. He is still waiting for her hoping she would come to bid him goodbye. but she dsnt and is shown as address the media and reveling in her win and future prospects.

It's a series that will surely keep you hooked onto your chairs and not get up till over. I am going to find other series by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu and watch them.

#the brothers sun #justin chien #charles sun #the big sun

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Justin Suarez

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Marc St. James

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Alexis Meade

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Suzuki St. Pierre (Byron Wu)

#look i said something #just collecting these here to submit their pictures

[coloradohq]

mw older fcs?

not sure what you mean by "older" so i'll just go for it. you can find some suggestions here and here and ofc anyone you choose to bless us with will be loved and wanted. all of the fcs listed below are over the age of 35 (even though I strongly disagree with the rpc considering someone old at 35, but that's neither here nor there):

Keanu Reeves, Carla Gugino, Eddie Cibrian, Michelle Yeoh, Gil Birmingham, Zahn McClarnon, Cheyenne Jackson, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Lucy Liu, Hiroyuki Sanada, Michael Greyeyes, Channing Tatum, Laverne Cox, Angela Bassett, Benjamin Bratt, Michael Michele, Morris Chestnut, Michelle Gomez, Brian Michael Smith, Ming Na-Wen, James Hong, Gina Torres, Billy Porter, Laurence Fishburne, Daniel Sunjata, Daniel Wu, Danny Pino, Levy Tran, Veronico Ngo, Serkan Çayoğlu, Patrick Wilson, George Young, Toby Stephens, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Q, Li BingBing, Elodie Yung, Aidan Turner, Byron Mann, Tommy Flanagan, Nathalie Kelley, Martin Sensmeier, Gabriel Macht, Maite Perroni, Gabriel Luna, Oscar Isaac, Diego Luna, Josh Segarra, Lance Gross, Daniel Henney, Theo James, Mahesh Jadu, Dylan Bruce, Sarah Shahi, Manu Bennett, Tony Leung, Famke Janssen, Skeet Ulrich, Marisol Nichols, Mark Consuelos, Madchen Amick, Benedict Wong, Aishwarya Rai, Bianca Lawson, Conrad Ricamora, Gong Yoo, Jamie Clayton, Isaiah Mustafa, John Cho, Octavia Spencer, Michaela Conlin, Omar Sy, Santiago Cabrera, Randall Park, Taraji P Henson, Taika Waititi, Yasmine Al Massri, Travis Fimmel, Sterling K Brown

#wanted. #answered.

[deadlinecom]

[geekcavepodcast]

The Brothers Sun Trailer

After the head of a powerful Taiwanese triad is assassinated, his eldest son, killer Charles "Chairleg" Sun, heads to LA to protect his mother Eillen and younger brother Bruce, who's been sheltered from the truth about his family. "But as Taipei’s deadliest societies and a new rising faction go head-to-head for dominance — Charles, Bruce and their mother must heal the wounds caused by their separation and figure out what brotherhood and family truly mean before one of their countless enemies kills them all." (Netflix)

The Brothers Sun stars Michelle Yeoh (Eileen), Justin Chien (Charles Sun), and Sam Song Li (Bruce). The drama is created by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu.

The Brothers Sun hits Netflix on January 4, 2024.

#brothers sun #michelle yeoh #justin chien #sam song li #brad falchuk #byron wu #netflix #TGCLiz #Youtube

[emperorclaudiusofficial]

For the book asks, 2 and 19!

Thank you!!

2. Top five books of all time?

Ooooooeergghhh. Aaarghhh. Hhhh. Does this mean like. The books I have read that I think are objectively the best? The books I personally have enjoyed the most? The books I would take to a desert island with me?

Okay here's my best shot:

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Don Juan by Lord Byron

À la recherche du temps perdu by Marcel Proust

The Iliad by Homer

Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Honourable mentions: Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, Paradise Lost by John Milton, Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en, The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, Lote by Shola von Reinhold, Put Out More Flags by Evelyn Waugh...fuck

19. Most disliked popular books?

The Sun Also Rises: Just go down on her, bro.

Frankissstein: A Love Story: Jeanette Winterson, did you even talk to any trans people before making one your protag?

The Handmaid's Tale: My toxic Canadian trait is hating Margaret Atwood, sorry :(

Fahrenheit 451: It's cause you be on that phone

Send me book asks!

#books #asks

[stylesurrender]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Cape Robbin | Red Patent Leather Heel Sandals.

[summerlycoris]

Groovin the Moo festival’s cancellation is expected to have a ‘profound ripple effect’. So what went wrong?

On Wednesday, organisers of the Groovin the Moo festival, Cattleyard Promotions, announced they were cancelling all six regional festivals, just eight days after tickets had gone on sale.

International headliners including Melanie C, GZA of Wu-Tang Clan, the Kooks and the Beaches were to play the touring festival in late April and early May, alongside Australian acts Jet, King Stingray, Mallrat and San Cisco.

In a statement on social media, the festival said they were “extremely disappointed” but that “ticket sales have not been sufficient to deliver a regional festival of this kind”.

All ticket purchases will be automatically refunded. The organisers have declined to respond to media requests for further comment.

With dates set for Wayville in South Australia, Bendigo, Canberra, the Sunshine Coast, Newcastle and Adelaide, Groovin the Moo is the latest music festival to temporarily fold this year. On New Year’s Eve, the long-running Falls festival in Byron Bay did not go ahead, with organisers saying they would take a year off to “recalibrate”. Adelaide’s Vintage Vibes was cancelled in late January and Camden’s ValleyWays festival was also cancelled in January, citing “cost of living pressures”.

The Greens issued a statement on Thursday saying music festivals were collapsing due to inflation, and changes in how the public purchases tickets due to an uncertain economic environment.

“It’s clear that there is an urgent need for government support to keep the industry going through these uncertain economic times,” said the Greens spokesperson for the arts, Sarah Hanson-Young, who has asked arts minister Tony Burke to fund another round of live music grants in the May budget, and work with the festivals industry to enable them to stay viable.

But an insider told Guardian Australia that poor tickets sales may have also been affected by the mix of artists chosen to perform. “We think we got the lineup wrong,” they said the organisers told them.

‘We need to take stock of what’s really going on here’

The Greens said it was clear the festival industry was still “struggling to get back on its feet since it was decimated by the Covid pandemic”.

But Dr Andy Ward, senior lecturer in contemporary music at the University of the Sunshine Coast – a short drive from a Groovin the Moo site – said the issues facing the live music industry were more complex.

“The industry has been through the wringer since Covid, but we can’t really continue [just] blaming Covid-19 for the change in consumer behaviour,” said Ward, whose research area is the economic and political environments of the music and entertainment industries.

“Younger audiences have completely different expectations to pre-Covid audiences. You’re talking about a generation who … may have spent their last years of high school or their first years at university in lockdown, isolated at home or certainly in less close social contact environments … and there is the issue of social anxiety we’ve been looking into.

“We need to look at the other things they’re spending money on, and it seems to be home entertainment and more streaming-based media. Younger people aren’t engaging in the traditional coming-of-age [experiences], they’re socialising at home and having house parties.”

Ward said the Groovin the Moo cancellation on the Sunshine Coast was nevertheless surprising, given its enormous success last year. All 25,000 tickets sold out within five days, for a lineup that included Fatboy Slim, Amy Shark, Eliza Rose and Ocean Alley.

The chief executive of Queensland’s music industry development association, Kris Stewart of QMusic, said rising insurance and transport costs meant touring events had to practically sell out in order to break even.

“We need to take stock of what’s really going on here,” he said. “Do these festivals need to be smaller, do we need to find less expensive ways of touring? Are there other more sustainable ways of doing things, where maybe [organisers] pick up more national artists, instead of international artists, and have fewer people on the road? There’s a number of things that I think need to be considered … we can’t just keep ploughing ahead like this.”

#auspol

[frazerbrown-producer]

#film #youtube #comics #frazer brown #theatre #tftqcomic #redcabincomics #talesfromthequarantine #red cabin comics #tales from the quarantine