https://apurvanakade.github.io/blog/tags/netflix/ Recent content in Netflix on PostDoc Problems Hugo en Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:44:20 +0000 https://apurvanakade.github.io/blog/notes/series/2023-12-26-blue-eye-samurai/ Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:44:20 +0000 https://apurvanakade.github.io/blog/notes/series/2023-12-26-blue-eye-samurai/ <p>Netflix has created a masterpiece with Blue Eye Samurai.</p> <p>There are some standard tropes - lonely samurai, mad skilled, dark past, revenge/mercenary for hire, amateur and naive apprentice, etc. A female protagonist with non-japanese ancestry adds a bit of novelty but not sufficient enough and the first couple of episodes feel pretty standard.</p> <p>But then as the characters develop and the backstory is revealed, the show really takes off. I distinctly remember watching S1E5 - The Ronin and the Bride - and unable to contain myself with excitement. There is a play in the episode - a story within a story - that is used to reveal Mizo&rsquo;s past. This is sheer genius. They could have just shown her backstory and the episode would still have been good. But this incorporation of a Japanese myth being told as a play which then parallels Mizu&rsquo;s life makes this episode great.</p>