5 best episodes of Warrior, a show you should watch on Netflix now

1. Episode 105, "The Blood and the Sh*t"

This episode is a little like "To a Man with a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail" in that it's more or less removed from the main action back in San Francisco. Ah Sahm and Young Jun are charged with transporting a coffin full of...well, stuff...back in Chinatown, and have to spend the night alongside several strangers at a roadside saloon in the middle of nowhere. The cultural differences between the groups are vast, but they find themselves needing to band together when a bunch of a bandits show up looking for whatever our heroes are smuggling in that coffin.

"The Blood and the Sh*t" drops around halfway through season 1, and it was the first episode that really got me thinking that this show was something special. It fits a ton of incident into an hour. The strangers-to-allies plot is highly entertaining and tense, climaxing with a thrilling action scene that feels lifted right out of a classic Sergio Leone western. The saloon is owned by a Chinese man and his American wife, which has our heroes thinking about expanding their horizons. There's even time for a tender little love story between the hot-headed Young Jun and Wankeia, the Native American prostitute who works at the saloon.

Personally, I'd love to see Warrior continue, at least for one more season so the show can finish on its own terms, with a proper ending. Whether or not that can happen is up to us.

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