'Warrior' is a thrilling martial arts crime drama series based on an original idea from Bruce Lee and brought to life by Banshee creator Jonathan Tropper. The second season will consist of 10 one hour episodes and will premiere on Friday, October 2 at 10/9c. Both seasons of the show will be made available on HBO MAX some time after season 2 finishes airing on Cinemax.
Due to Cinemax exiting the original series business, and HBO not caring about saving any of their shows, it's highly unlikely that Warrior will continue past season two (the cast and crew have already all moved on to other projects).
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'Warrior' is a gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm , a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances. After proving his worth as a fighter, Ah Sahm becomes a hatchet man for the Hop Wei, one of Chinatown's most powerful tongs (Chinese organized crime family).
Season two follows rival Chinatown tongs, the Hop Wei and the Long Zii, as they fight for dominance amidst the growing anti-Chinese racism that threatens to destroy them all. After barely surviving last season's disastrous showdown, Ah Sahm is back with the Hop Wei and determined to wreak vengeance on Long Zii's new leader, Mai Ling, who also happens to be his sister. Spending his nights honing his martial arts skills at a notorious Barbary Coast fight pit run by a savvy, opportunistic woman named Rosalita Vega, Ah Sahm harbors ambitions to topple Hop Wei head Father Jun. To accomplish this, he pushes tong heir Young Jun into a new opium deal and welcomes the arrival of an enthusiastic new recruit and fighter, Hong.
As the two tongs fight for dominance over the course of the season, both face numerous outside threats, including from the brutal Fung Hai tong and its nihilistic leader Zing, the embittered Irish labor movement led by tough-as-nails bar owner Dylan Leary, and the hostile local government under the politically spineless Mayor Blake and his scheming deputy, Walter Buckley. With the stakes mounting and tensions with her brother growing, Mai Ling struggles to control her new-partner Zing, and lover and tong lieutenant, Li Yong (Joe Taslim).
Meanwhile, brothel madame Ah Toy continues to pursue her secret and violent agenda and slowly becomes intrigued by Nellie Davenport, a wealthy widow using her fortune to rescue young Chinese sex workers. Struggling to get out from the Fung Hai's grip, debt-ridden police sergeant Bill O'Hara faces growing suspicion from his subordinate while fixer and profiteer Wang Chao continues to play both sides. Socialite-turned-businesswoman Penny Blake works to keep her father's factory open using Chinese labor and must adjust to the arrival of her young, rebellious sister Sophie who begins to cross family lines in favor of the Irish labor movement. Between the local political turmoil and the escalating gang violence, tensions in Chinatown threaten to boil over into a full-scale war that will raise the stakes and its survival of the fittest for those left standing.
Cast
Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm
Kieran Bew as Bill O'Hara
Olivia Cheng as Ah Toy
Dianne Doan as Mai Ling
Dean Jagger as Dylan Leary
Langley Kirkwood as Walter Buckley
Hoon Lee as Wang Chao
Christian McKay as Mayor Samuel Blake
Joe Taslim as Li Yong
Jason Tobin as Young Jun
Joanna Vanderham as Penelope Blake
Tom Weston-Jones as Richard Lee
Perry Yung as Father Jun
Celine Buckens as Sophie
Dustin Nguyen as Zing
Chen Tang as Hong
Miranda Raison as Nellie Davenport
Maria Elena Laas as Rosalita Vega