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Based on James Clavell’s 1975 novel of the same name, and already adapted previously as a 1980s miniseries, the 2024 limited-series historical epic “Shōgun” has come to a close after ten episodes. It aired weekly on FX/Hulu simultaneously and is available through Hulu on the Disney+ bundle. Inspired by real history, the story follows.
By the time you’ve inched toward the halfway point of the first episode of Shōgun, the epic new limited series that revisits James Clavell’s 1975 doorstopper of a historical novel about early 1600s Japan, you’ve already seen an eyeful: massive schooners, flashing swords, military processions, political power plays, a father and his infant son sentenced to death, a half-dozen English prisoners awaiting their fate in a pit.