‘Blue Eye Samurai’ Director Breaks Down the Fiery Finale: ‘Let’s Just Burn Down That Whole Set’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comValerie Wu Intern SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for the series finale of “Blue Eye Samurai,” titled “The Great Fire of 1657,” now streaming on Netflix.
Season 1 of Netflix animated series “Blue Eye Samurai,” created by Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, ended on a cliffhanger. The city of Edo burned down, and mixed-race samurai Mizu (Maya Erskine) left white man Abijah Fowler (Kenneth Branagh) alive — despite her craving his death from the very first episode.
Right as Mizu was about to kill him in the burning palace, Fowler revealed that only he knew the identity of the other two “hidden” white men who could be Mizu’s father: Skeffington and Routely.
Fowler then dropped another bombshell on Mizu: The woman Mizu saw die wasn’t her mother, but instead a maid paid to keep Mizu hidden.
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