Shōgun is a great show... but the novel was still better

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Shōgun is a great show... but the novel was still better

Live long enough and everything you love will be remade by Hollywood. If you vaguely remember some film or show from your childhood, expect a grey-suited producer to rip it from the vault, spruce it up for “modern audiences” and shove it onto multiplex screens or one of the endless streaming services, where it’s likely never be seen and instantly forgot. There have been four modern Predator remakes.  When it was announced in 2018 that FX would b…