Everyone is steamy in the Fire Nation preview images from Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender

It all looks pretty serious, but Daniel Dae Kim pulls it off well

By Sam Barsanti | October 17, 2023 | 8:26pm

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The first teaser for Netflix’s reboot of M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender movie (just kidding, it’s a live-action adaptation of the Nickelodeon cartoon that the movie was based on) was just the opening sequence that will appear before every episode, but it still heavily suggested that the show will be going for a much more “grim and gritty” tone than the original cartoon—which was usually at least brightly colored, even if it wasn’t always a wacky, lighthearted romp. Now, Netflix has released new preview images for the show, and… well, they won’t be beating those “grim and gritty” allegations any time soon.

Still, the preview images are all dedicated to main characters from the Fire Nation, and if any one of the show’s factions is going to be grim and gritty, it’s this one. Plus, Daniel Dae Kim looks pretty sick as Fire Lord Ozai. He’s got the beard, he’s got the hair, he’s got the big fire-shaped thing in his hair. There’s a man we would gladly follow in his quest to take over the world.