Early Access: Shōgun 8 - Group Reaction+Uncut
Added 2025-06-03 14:34:00 +0000 UTCUncut: https://thenormies.com/shogun-ea/
Edited reaction is in the thumbnail above!
Comments
I never comment but Suraj; that comment was golden.
Karl-Johan Bergendorff
2025-05-02 19:06:14 +0000 UTCSo glad it wasn't just me!!!
The Normies
2025-04-11 22:12:53 +0000 UTCFirst time i watched this i thought the guy at 16:12 was Mac making a sneaky Lost style cameo too
BindingofNack
2025-04-09 10:14:14 +0000 UTC"He has hygiene now" that line kill me. Was John Blackthorn now cleaner than the average Englishman back home. I can only imagine John making back home and then complaining why everyone smells so bad.
Xonok
2025-04-09 04:47:04 +0000 UTCThis episode is Hiroyuki Sanada‘s Emmy submission and rightfully win. That shot on his face after the seppuku!
Peng
2025-04-09 04:11:33 +0000 UTCAbsolutely valid if you ever grew up in a different country and then move to a completely different one, after a while your norm just changes and you're not at home as naturally in the older one anymore because you have changed
fr0st
2025-04-09 01:38:51 +0000 UTCDomain Expansion: Crimson Sky
bondbond53
2025-04-08 20:32:58 +0000 UTC10:23 👏👏👏 to Suraj. I straight up guffawed and startled my dog at your line. 😂😂😂
Sickleweed
2025-04-08 18:22:37 +0000 UTC#sundayrundown RIP Hiromatsu… you will be missed. He’s a true friend who sacrificed himself for Toranaga’s plan to work, and everybody's unshed tears in that scene were unforgettable. I loved watching warriors with big egos and pride trying not to shed a tear while secretly overwhelmed by emotion. It was impressive to see an actor shed a tear without his face moving, and the breaking of the eightfold fence added to the intensity of the moment. Yabushige keeping a book for ranking deaths is the most Yabushige thing ever, and light ain’t got nothing on Yabushige’s Death Note. When Yabu declared that at twelve PM tomorrow he’d be boiled in oil and Ryuk casually reminded him that it’s the 21st century, the humor was on full display. The actor’s Instagram art makes everything even funnier, perfectly capturing his trickster and menacing spirit. Toranaga proved he’s quite the troll by placing Gin’s tea house right across from the Church, embodying the essence of a monkey’s paw—giving you what you want, but not quite what you expect. The ironic interplay of Catholic guilt near all the lust and sin promises to pay dividends for the Portuguese if they play their cards right, as the scene juxtaposes Christ livid alongside whores and beggars in a way that sparks creative marketing ideas. The final moment between Toranaga and Hiromatsu, full of knowing looks and unspoken emotions, revealed just how deep the characters and their plans ran. Hiromatsu’s sacrifice not only lent credibility to the surrender but also prevented the other leaders from attacking Toranaga outright, leaving us to wonder if his actions were truly necessary or simply the tragic result of a miscalculation. Yabu immediately having Nagakado’s death recorded because he’d never thought of such a thing is hilarious, and he ranks it lower than boiling. The callback to his obsession with death, especially after he already brought the pot up last episode, keeps his character on this crazy seesaw. He is simultaneously unpredictable and predictable—Toranaga read him like a book. Now we see why Toranaga wanted to keep him alive; he’s extremely useful and doesn’t even realize it. I feel like Omi is all of us in this show. He always seems to have the most sensible reactions in every situation, which is mostly just “y’all are fucked up.” It’s amazing that the Japanese language doesn’t have any L’s in it, since Buntaro has been racking them up nonstop the past few episodes. Holy shit, I’m crying. I didn’t think my man could get roasted any harder, but here we are. The guy in the pot was catching less heat. Mariko-sama now needs to be called banjin, because that was the most savage and barbaric burn in all of “the Japans.” “And I would sooner live a thousand years than die with you like this.” Lady unfolded all 8 layers of her fence just to spirit bomb his ego. Yeah dang, Buntaro not having a great week. And that was before having to behead his own father. AND his father sided with Mariko by telling him he has to live so he can feel what it’s like to be denied the death you want.
Yhwach
2025-04-08 16:35:30 +0000 UTC#SundayRundown #Shogun The last line of this episode was improvised by Hiroyuki Sanada. In the script, he just stands there looking at his sons ashes for the final shot. In the moment however, Sanada was compelled to tell Nagakato and Hiromatsu that he wouldn't waste the chance they'd given him.
Nabeshin
2025-04-08 16:11:54 +0000 UTCIt is mentioned earlier in the season that Toranaga is a big fan of Noh plays and often acts in them and is known to be a very good actor. He's 5d chess incarnate. For Johns crew it kinda shows it but in the book of course it goes into more detail, when they were first moved to Edo the Japanese did try and give the crew decent housing proper clothes encouraged them to bathe etc, and they rejected it. They found the Eta, the lowest class of people the ones that dealt with corpses, ate red meat dealt with flesh and sewerage and so on, the really dirty jobs. The crew were basically like "hey these are our people" and moved into the Eta district, Toranaga is providing for them btw thats where they get money from. So both Chris and the rest of the couch have it right in different ways, yes they didn't get the A Class treatment John did but they were given the opportunity to somewhat assimilate with the culture and they rejected it. For the tea ceremony it is absolutely a show with exact ways it is done how to react how to drink etc, very formal, Buntaro was a master of the ceremony in the book, the scene goes pretty much exactly the same, she is moved by his artistry but is in no way changing her opinion of him.
Macs
2025-04-08 15:45:53 +0000 UTC
