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It's amazing how reviewers hate the reboot and claim that it's "not as good as the original", citing the very things that the original did. "The clones are just insults to the original historic chaaaracters!" Really? And the original clones weren't? Do people actually believe that Joan of Arc, Cleopatra, Abraham Lincoln, John Kennedy and Ghandi were more like the original clones than Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo and Confucius and their respective clones? Spoiler (not spoiler): they were not. It was a comedy show to begin with.

"Oh no, they joke about white privilege!" Newsflash (not newsflash): the original show joked about sex, religion, homosexuality, homophobia, rape, homosexual rape, death, prisons, and arthouse films.

"Oh no, there's so many cliche sentiments and themes!" Well this is what it always has been, it parodied the cliche sentiments and themes. Duh.

The only thing missing is, of course, Ghandi. But he's always mentioned.

A short but refreshing meeting with the ghosts. Everyone is in character, though the episode is too brief to show more than the basic glimpse of each. In a way, we see a reenactment of Alison's big talk to the ghosts back in season 1.

Kylie's acting is good. The chemistry between all the characters is nice and makes sense. I'd actually like to see how more of this story in the final season of Ghosts, but it's rounded up smoothly enough to explain why they might never meet again (I suppose affording Kylie as a full-time star is too expensive - she only appeared in one episode of Galavant back in the day, which the characters joked about in the season finale).

Inspired by the film Zatôichi chikemuri kaidô, the seventeenth in Zatoichi franchise about the adventures of a blind swordsman, Blind Fury keeps many of the strong points of the original while adding to them, replacing crimes and villains of the Shogunate era with those of 80's USA. The cast is good, the screenplay keeps a good mixture of drama, action, and comedy, and the swordplay is excellent.

It's interesting to watch for someone who's been a fan of Zatoichi films for a while, comparing the way Rutger Hauer plays the blind veteran Nick Parker with how Shintaro Katsu played the wandering canesword-wielding masseur.

It's sad that a sequel was never made. They could even invite Toshiro Mifune - now that would've been a meeting!