‘Shogun’ Finale Recap: “A Dream of a Dream”

Spoilers be waiting for Crimson Sky, but that shit happened fifty-leven days ago Maaaan, listen. Before you ask, nah, ain’t no other recaps from this season so don’t even look. You didn’t miss a damn thing so don’t even bother Google with that. This show, this fuckin’ Shogun show y’all…listen. I put my jersey in the rafters for the recap game. I was Tim Duncan, enjoying my retirement and rarely seen and when you did see my, I had them jeans and flannel on with no edge up in sight. Your boy was trying not to be seen, OK! But this damn show. The power of Edo compelled me. So yeah, I had to lace them up one more time. And while I am resisting the urge to recap this whole ass amazing ass season, I will start here. Mariko. Mariko-sama. Is. The. Fucking. GOAT. Please, please, I beg of you, name me a more BOUT THIS ACTION, unshakeable willed character than The Translator. The T-M Hundred Terminator model. Never been more upset to assume a character is dead, celebrate her escape and then realize nah, she bout to be dead as fuck. All in about 30 minutes, mind you. But T-M Hunned looms large in this episode, sorry, this masterpiece. So, let’s jump into this.

Laid to Rest First off, as soon as I saw an old man on his death bed, I was like, this gotta be Blackthorne. About to die of old age in your comfortable bed, in this economy, gotta be a white dude. And it was. His boys looking at his Japanese artifacts and perpetuating some myth of him fighting off “hundreds of savages.” But hol…