History Series / Warrior2019

* LetYouAndHimFight: Bill tries to welch on the gambling debts he owes to the Fung Hai but they hire a PsychoForHire Irishman to act as their enforcer in the matter. Bill does not have the money so he informs Leary of the sitution. Leary does not really care what happens to Bill but he cannot tolerate that a white Irishman is willing to kill a fellow Irishmen over debts owed to the Chinese. So he fights the enforcer on Bill behalf. However, Leary is not happy about being set up like this so he makes Bill [[spoiler: kill the enforcer with his own hands.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The show doesn't pull any punches in depicting the absolute virulence of the racism directed at the Chinese immigrants in the 1870s United States. Furthermore, Voting rights for women are mocked by a group of rich men and politicians.

* MobWar: As the series opens, the various tongs in Chinatown are one step away from open warfare. And on top of that you have Leary's Irish Gang who hates them all.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Both the leaders of the Hop Wei and Long Zii surprisingly. Long Zii is constantly teaching and encouraging his wife Mai Ling in leading his gang and his rival Father Jun has no problem with Mai Ling leading the Long Zii gang, he just has a problem of her trying to undermine his gang's opium trade.

** Being based on a concept originally developed by Creator/BruceLee, various homages to his films worked into the show's fight scenes. Most notably in the pilot, Ah Sahm lays an opponent out on the floor, [[Film/WayOfTheDragon then sits on top of him to add insult to injury.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The show doesn't pull any punches in depicting the absolute virulence of the racism directed at the Chinese immigrants in the 1870s United States.

** Being based on a concept originally developed by Creator/BruceLee, various homages to his films worked into the fight choreography. Most notably in the pilot, Ah Sahm lays an opponent out on the floor, [[WayOfTheDragon then sits on top of him to add insult to injury.]]

* MythologyGag: The series is based on a concept for a television series called ''The Warrior'' developed by Creator/BruceLee, about a martial artist in the American Old West. According to Bruce Lee's widow, concept was retooled and renamed Series/KungFu, but Warner Bros. gave Lee no credit. With this in mind, pay attention to how Young Jun describes the sources of their opium supply problems:
--> Then we had some trouble back in China. '''Someone fucked someone who knew the emperor's nephew. ''' I don't know.

* ShoutOut: A bar named Series/{{Banshee}} is featured in a few episodes, a reference to creator Jonathan Tropper's other ''Creator/{{Cinemax}}'' series.

''Warrior'' is a [[GenreMashup martial arts, historical crime drama]] on created by Jonathan Tropper and Justin Lin, which premiered April 5, 2019 on ''Creator/{{Cinemax}}''.

* SpaghettiWestern: Episode Five is an unabashed homage to this genre, complete with a TheEnd title card in classic Western font.

* ShoutOut: The series features a bar named {{Series/Banshee,}} creator Jonathan Tropper's other ''Creator/{{Cinemax}}'' series.

* ShoutOut: The series features a bar named Series/Banshee, creator Jonathan Tropper's other ''Creator/{{Cinemax}}'' series.

* BilingualBackfire: Ah Sahm speaks perfect English, courtesy of his American grandfather. However, since he is a fresh of the boat immigrant, he pretends he doesn't.

* TranslationConvention: Whenever the Chinese characters are talking among themselves without any non-Chinese present, the dialogue is in English but it is understood that they are really speaking in either Cantonese or Mandarin.

* SleazyPolitician: Mayor Blake, who on top of being corrupt is also a DepravedBisexual who indulges with prostitutes of both sexes in Chinatown... simultaneously.

* TranslationConvention: Whenever the Chinese characters are talking among themselves without any non-Chinese present, the dialogue is in English but it is understood that they are really speaking in either Cantonese of Mandarin.

* TranslationConvention: Whenever the Chinese characters are talking among themselves without any non-Chinese present, the dialoge is in English but it is understood that they are really speaking in either Cantonese of Mandarin.

Set during the Tong Wars in late 1870s San Francisco, California, the series follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a martial arts prodigy who immigrates to San Francisco from China in search of his long-lost sister and becomes a hatchet man for the Hop Wei, the most powerful tong in Chinatown. But he will also have to face the bigotry of the city’s white population and the machinations of the corrupt politicians trying to make a profit out of the whole mess.

* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: And we do mean everybody. Even the non-Chinese in the cast tend to be proficient in GoodOldFisticuffs.

In April 2019, ''Cinemax'' renewed the series for a second season.