Wu Assassins
2019
📺 1 Season
🎬 10 Episodes
📅 Canceled
🌐 EN
⏱️ 45 min/episode
Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAction & AdventureCrime
The last in a line of Chosen Ones, a wannabe chef teams up with a homicide detective to unravel an ancient mystery and take down supernatural assassins.
Where to Watch (US)
Stream
Netflix
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Seasons
Season 1
A botched restaurant order makes Kai a target of Triad members, who are unaware of his family connections -- and his new status as the Wu Assassin.
Cast
User Reviews
Excellent stereotype. Asian means you can do martial arts. Not much has changed. So I assume this is not bad writing, but a way to fix the racist stereotype by making the main character ignorant in the Chinese ways as a white male from Mid West. And, of course, the bad white guy is Russian, the archetypal US adversary. And the American born are fearless police ready to uphold the just law. Now add super powers. Yet the super powers still let them fight like in _Ong Bak_ or _The Raid_ and nothing like in the older Wu Xia movies.
And the best part: going to some second rate college to get drunk and become a writer for a NetFlix series is hard work, while becoming a chef or a fighter only take 15 minutes a day.
So watch it for the beatings and never mind the cook can't afford a food truck while paying for a huge flat all by himself in the cheapest town in America: San Francisco.
March 11, 2021
The trailer looked good, as was the choreography, but the plot as well as the visual effects, not so much!
Plus, what will season 2 mean; the wu assassin will now find worthy hosts of the wu elements?
March 14, 2020
Crew
Producer
Chad Oakes, John Wirth, Stephen Fung
Network
Netflix
Production
Flame Ventures, Nomadic Pictures
Keywords
san francisco, californiamartial artschinatownvillainsuperheromissionsupernatural power