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That’s something we here at Vulture probably spend more time thinking about than anyone else does or should, but after nearly two decades in the recap biz and many shifts in the TV viewing landscape, we’ve gathered enough data to have a pretty good handle on the answer. Season 1, Episode 1: The stakes still aren’t totally defined by the end of this pilot: We’re starting to get to know these people and what they’re dealing with, but the whole web of mysteries is so amorphous and free-floating at this stage that the show hasn’t quite achieved a sense of real momentum yet. From another, and I suspect this will be the way most viewers who’ve stuck with the show will see it, it’s the finale the series needs, one more concerned with its characters and the overarching story of how nations get made than sword-clanging action (not that Shōgun has lacked that either).
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