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HBO’s Warrior returns for another bout of blood-soaked martial arts

Racism has a long and ignoble history as a pillar of American law enforcement. But San Francisco in the late 1870s had bigger problems than bigoted policemen and their venal city hall overseers, or even gangs of rough-hewn Irish labourers promulgating, with clubs, knives and dynamite, the anti-“coolie” and “yellow peril out” message. As we return to the emerging city by the bay for the explosive second series of period thriller Warrior , San Francisco is just a swinging nunchaku away from a…

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