The Badlands Tv Series ((install)) 🆓

In a genre television landscape often defined by who lives and who dies, Into the Badlands asked a more interesting question: How do they fight? And the answer, for three glorious seasons, was: like nothing else on TV.

The mastermind behind this was Stephen Fung, a Hong Kong film director and action choreographer (and a childhood friend of Daniel Wu). AMC gave Fung and his team, including legendary fight coordinator Andy Cheng (a veteran of the Rush Hour franchise), an unprecedented amount of time to stage each fight. A typical episode took eight days to shoot; the fight sequences alone consumed four of those days. the badlands tv series

In the landscape of prestige television, there are shows about power, shows about survival, and shows about morality. Then there was Into the Badlands . Premiering on AMC in November 2015, at the height of The Walking Dead ’s cultural dominance, it was an audacious, technicolor anomaly. It wasn’t a zombie show, a political thriller, or a gritty crime drama. It was a “wuxia Western”—a post-apocalyptic martial arts epic that prioritized wire-fu ballet over bullet-counting realism. In a genre television landscape often defined by