Shang-Chi and The Legend of the 10 Rings: Thank you for your service, Simu Liu.

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Happy Wine Wednesday! We are back with a really fun discussion
all about Shang-Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings ("Shang-Chi")
with songwriter, YouTuber, and 90s nostalgia junkie, Rod
Kim.

In between Jocelyn being extremely thirsty for Simu Liu, we
managed to have an in-depth conversation about the film.  We
share our prior exposure to the source material and touch a
little on the Awkwafina of it all.  Rod shares the
significance of Shang-Chi and FINALLY having a Marvel film
starring an Asian lead.  We then shared the sh*t we loved
about the film and the sh*t we didn't love about the film. 
Spoiler alert - there is VERY little that we did not love about
Shang-Chi.  Rod provides thoughtful, necessary insight on
the importance of Shang-Chi telling the story from a very unique
Asian-American perspective.

Next up, we get into the Qs that needed some As.  This
includes our thoughts on the use of non-linear storytelling, a
complete love fest for the amazing action sequences, and we
explore whether Katey's heavy involvement in the film made
sense.  Shang-Chi is yet another entry into the MCU that
highlights complicated family issues, so we discuss where the
film lands among our favorite family ties caught on screen. 
We'd be remiss if we didn't touch on parallels between Shang-Chi
and Black Panther, given that both films broke significant ground
in being lead by a person of color.  Both films also
inserted a random White dude into the story, so we walk about
Everett Ross and Trevor Slattery and whether their inclusion into
these films made sense.

Thanks to Shang-Chi, we have another amazing entry into the
Marvel universe of superhero uniforms.  We swoon over
Shang-Chi's costume and talk about our other favorite MCU
costumes.  We then shift gears to talk about the film's MVPs
and explore the replay value of Shang-Chi.  Is this a film
that is relegated to a Marvel marathon or is it one that you'd
actually play when you're looking for something good to
watch?

We close out the main discussion by introducing Rod to his very
first thirst segment. Following our sign-off, we have a quick
discussion about the mid-credit and post-credit scenes.

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language. 

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