![]() In season one the biggest drama centers around Quinn, his two current wives Lydia and Jade and his son Ryder. There are also relationships and back channels between the Baron's chief deputies, the Regents like Sunny and Zephyr who represent Quinn and Jacobee respectively. ![]() Romantic entanglements are all over the place and characters have conflicting duties between what they may want and what they are duty bound to do on behalf of their Barons. "Into the Badlands" balances the heavy doses of action with a large cast of characters arraigned in a complex web of relationships. The first season ends with a promise of more exploration of this power in season two. Penrith has some knowledge about these special powers but the extent of his knowledge is not revealed. There is also Penrith played by Lance Henriksen: a religious leader unaligned with any Baron and the estranged father-in-law to the Baron Quinn. The Widow hints at some knowledge of the power and as the first season goes on, we learn more and more about it. reverts back to normal, except that after each use, he is physically exhausted and weakened. The transformation is only temporary, however, and eventually M.K. ![]() With seemingly no control over his actions and little memory of what happens after he is cut, the power is as much a mystery to M.K. He becomes a one-man wrecking crew possessing superhuman strength, agility and fighting skills. is cut deep enough to bleed, his eyes turn black and he loses control. The second major mystery is the exact nature and origin of M.K.'s special powers. The show handles these issues in a way that doesn't take you out of the story, it all seems to fit well within the universe of the show. The show doesn't spend a great deal of time dealing with the racial or ethnic diversity that it portrays on screen, but it does for story reasons address both gender and physical handicap rather explicitly. Disability is also addressed with the wheelchair bound character of Waldo played by actor Stephen Lang.Įach barony features a mixtures of races and sexes, though the Widow's features a much higher percentage of women. Nichols) and the Baron Jacobee are all played by actors of color. This diversity extends to the rest of the cast as the female doctor Veil (Madeleine Mantock), the River King (Lance E. is played by Aramis Knight who has a mixed ethnic heritage of German, East Indian and Pakistani, while the adult lead of Sunny is played by Daniel Wu who is Chinese-American. Set at an unspecified point far in the future, the series features a diverse cast of actors and actresses. When the show lingers on a scene of blood and gore, it does so for a reason like with Veil's parents in the episode "Fist Like a Bullet." 14 BEST FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHY ON TVĭiversity is a hot topic in entertainment right now and "Into the Badlands" handles this issue deftly. There is plenty of blood in the series, but it is realistic in the depiction of damage that the weapons used could do. By nature, this story is going to revolve heavily around the violence that results from the rival factions coming into conflict. "Into the Badlands" presents a world full of melee weapons and a relative peace maintained by forces of warriors. Not every show needs to be as bloody as "Dexter" or as violent as "Game of Thrones." Even AMC's flagship series "The Walking Dead" often goes above and beyond with the gore because they can get away with it based on the conflict between zombies and humans. Often, since they can go further, they use gore that is gratuitous and unnecessary for the stories, devolving into being little more than torture porn. The birth of first cable and then streaming programming has allowed creators to portray a higher level of violence and gore in their shows. Television shows have long sanitized the results of their violence for broadcast television.
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