
[Editor’s note: mild spoilers]
Partially foraged in history, Netflix’s “Yasuke” takes what it can from the limited details of the real samurai’s origin story.
Luckily, series creator LeSean Thomas (“The Boondocks”, “The Legend of Korra”) and the stacked co-writing team; Nick Jones Jr., Alex Larsen, and musician Flying Lotus make the most of the ambiguous annals lost in nearly 400 years of time across the span of its limited six-episode run.
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