{"id":30251,"date":"2024-03-06T03:31:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/the-brothers-sun-canceled-by-netflix-after-one-season\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T03:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:01:52","slug":"the-brothers-sun-canceled-by-netflix-after-one-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/the-brothers-sun-canceled-by-netflix-after-one-season\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Brothers Sun\u2019 canceled by Netflix after one season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2024-03\/240305-brothers-sun-ch-1455-5b418a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Netflix\u00a0has brought the curtain down on the\u00a0Michelle Yeoh\u00a0crime drama \u201cThe Brothers Sun\u201d after one season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The series revolving around Taiwanese organized crime and set in Southern California\u2019s San Gabriel Valley premiered Jan. 4 on Netflix\u2019s global platform. The series was created and executive produced by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">In addition to Oscar-winner Yeoh, \u201cBrothers Sun\u201d also starred Justin Chien, Sam Song Li, Highdee Kuan and Joon Lee. News of the cancellation was\u00a0first reported by Deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The series had an eight-episode run. Chein played a Taiwanese mobster who heads to Los Angeles area to protect his estranged mother after his father is assassinated in Taipei. Yeoh, who won the best actress Oscar last year for \u201cEverything Everywhere All at Once,\u201d received strong reviews for her work in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><em>Variety<\/em>\u00a0TV critic Aramide Tinubu called Yeoh \u201ccutthroat and commanding\u201d and declared the series to be \u201ca thrilling, brilliant dramedy about familial obligations, buried skeletons and the bonds that can never be broken.\u201d Tinubu also observed: \u201cThough it provides Yeoh a showcase that she\u2019s more than earned, the series also introduces Chien and Li as two mega talents who will undoubtedly continue to grace our screens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Other executive producers include Mikkal Bondesen and Kevin Tancharoen, who directed the series\u2019 first episode. Additional cast members included Alice Hewkin, Jon Xue Zhang, Jenny Yang and Madison Hu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The short life of \u201cThe Brothers Sun\u201d could be another sign of how even starry series projects are being closely evaluated at a time when streamers, studios and major networks are reassessing overall content expenditures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\"><strong><em>For more from NBC Asian America,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>sign up for our weekly newsletter<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Netflix\u00a0has brought the curtain down on the\u00a0Michelle Yeoh\u00a0crime drama \u201cThe Brothers Sun\u201d after one season. The series revolving around Taiwanese organized crime and set in Southern California\u2019s San Gabriel Valley premiered Jan. 4 on Netflix\u2019s global platform. The series was created and executive produced by Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu. In addition to Oscar-winner &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}