Pirate mercenaries smuggle illicit goods through Southeast Asia, navigating a relentlessly gritty world with darkly comic flair.
Pulpy and high-octane, with dark satire. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is heavy.
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Nothing past what a TV-MA promises: moderate sex and nudity, and brutal violence.
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The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s. Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in southeast Thailand near the border of Cambodia.
It leaves things open rather than tying them up.
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