After entangling himself in its thorny political landscape, Backthorne is left at the mercy of samurai warriors and, eventually, in the custody of a Japanese warlord, Yoshii Toranaga (played byBut will there be anything released beyond its first season?The storyline for the first season has already covered all the material from Clavel’s 1975 book, and so will unlikely be followed up with a second.“We took the story to the end of the book and put a period at the end of that sentence.
We love how the book ends; it was one of the reasons why we both knew we wanted to do it — and we ended in exactly that place.“And I’ve been party to this in the past with shows like this, where you build a whole factory, and it only pumps out 10 cars and closes up shop.”“It feels a lot like parenting,” she said, “where you get really good at, like, washing bottles, or all the other things that babies require, and then suddenly they don’t need any of that anymore.