Netflix’s <em>Blue Eye Samurai</em> Is a Bloody Masterpiece
The animated series, a historical drama with a modern sensibility, stuns from the first frame.
Early last month, and with minimal fanfare, Netflix released all eight episodes of the first season of the animated action series Blue Eye Samurai. Following a sudden and almost entirely organic rise in popularity, the show was renewed for a second season. Even the rock-star video-game designer Hideo Kojima was posting about it. is more than worth the hype: It deserves to be counted among the . The series takes the trappings of a heroic action-adventure and turns them on their head, crafting a bloody, emotional drama that is riveting from the very first frame.
