BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — RZA could have created a Wu-Tang Clan biopic like the NWA-based “Straight Outta Compton” film, but felt the nine-member rap group needed more room to tell their story.

What started as an almost unbearably slow start with a pilot that took me multiple sittings to digest, led to steady improvement with each episode that followed culminating into a finale that not only ...