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‘Shōgun’ Wins Best Drama Series Golden Globe

'Shōgun' wins Best Drama Series at 2025 Golden Globes, beating out shows such as 'The Diplomat' and 'Squid Game.'

It was initially conceived as a miniseries, just as the 1980 adaptation featuring Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune had been, but as a result of the show’s strong critical reception and viewership around the globe, FX/Hulu decided to expand the narrative into at least two more seasons. IndieWire previously named “Shōgun” among the best shows and performances of the year, with IndieWire critic Ben Travers writing, “As far as sweeping historical epics go, perhaps the highest compliment they can hope to receive is something along the lines of, ‘Hot damn, that was fun!’ OK, OK — ‘fun’ may not be the perfect word to describe a wartime saga with so many betrayals and so many severed heads it’s consistently compared to ‘Game of Thrones,’ but ‘Shōgun’ is still way more entertaining than any subtitled 17th century drama has any right to be.” Before it was announced that “Shōgun” would continue as a multi-season series, the show’s co-creators, Justin Marks and Rachel Kondo discussed on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast the difficulty of having such a brief amount of time to explore this world and history they put such effort into bringing back to life.

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