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I don't want to jump to hyperbole in the first week of the year, but I'm pretty confident in saying that The Brothers Sun has the best fight scene with men in inflatable dinosaur costumes that I've seen in 2024. Sure, it's the only one I've seen during this or some year, and I doubt there will be another soon. But that doesn't reduce how much is enough. It's just great to start the year with a show that can give me something I've been missing from television for a while: a show that's as interested in good goofs as it is killer brawls.

Created by Byron Wu and Brad Falchuk (co-creators of many shows in the Ryan Murphy empire, from American Horror Story to Glee), the new Netflix martial arts dramedy – there's something you don't get to say every day! — introduces viewers to Bruce Sun (Sam Song Li), a regular butt-geek living in LA. Bruce loves improv comedy more than anything else, so much so that he spends college fees on comedy classes and allows himself to be talked into selling drugs by his best friend – which would be a problem for him, if he were good at it.

Bruce doesn't know this, but he is also Triad royalty. His father, Big Sun (Johnny Kou), heads one of the most respected gangs in Taipei, and someone is targeting them all. This is how Bruce is finally reunited with his long-lost older brother, Charles (Justin Chien), who flies in from Taiwan to protect Bruce and their mother, Eileen (Michelle Yeoh), after an assassination attempt on their father.