Sean Smith

Amazing. Absolutely Amazing. It's been a long long time since something this good has come along. I think it has been over ten years since I've felt compelled to take the time to write a review of a show or movie. For several years now, lackluster shows get produced. Last a season or two, then get dumped. Forgotten and consigned to memories one places little to no value upon. But finally, Blue Eye Samurai, produces a vision that is worth experiencing. it's no magnum opus. It's not content that will change what I think, or what I do, or how I view the world, but it is so well produced. Getting the details right. Providing culture. Providing events that are not generic emotional nonsense. It is Refined; complete. Like Elden Ring in the middle of an era of 'ship incomplete game, patch later, then abandon it'. In a world where every show introduces something Woke, inclusionary, or otherwise in vogue and there to promote or ride some agenda that isn't concerned with achieving any form of excellence, is this story; a real story. Just that, a story, created and told such that it is believable, compelling, without glaring plot holes or other gunk; it is the purity of telling a good story. With characters that seem like people, rather than placeholders for people that show even less intelligence, personality, than ChatGPT. I miss that. I really miss it. The detail and thoughtfulness of Ghost in the Shell. The compelling brilliance of Ink. The unapologetic pragmatism of The Watchmen. Blue Eye Samurai isn't on par with those works, but it is in their company, in spirit, and thus worthy of attention in a world where the content that gets shoveled out has become thoughtless drivel, there one moment, gone the next, leaving one to wonder, why did I watch this? Was it made for any reason other than it got watched? Did the writers and producers even know what having a passion for something really is? The people who made Blue Eye Samurai, they know, and I hope to see more of their work. Because honestly, I'd begun to lose hope that anyone even remembers how to tell good stories. To make something worth paying attention to.