"Blue Eye Samurai."

The adult-oriented animation series on Netflix gets the Two Episode Test.

It’s hard to say what exactly constitutes a buzz-heavy series these days, as there’s not enough distance in our post-Peak TV, post-strike, current-contraction of the industry phase to keep us from still, and evermore, drowning in content. One person’s “buzz worthy” show is another person’s never-heard-of-it question marked face.

It’s still quite rare to have five people in a group of 10 know exactly the same new series. But there certainly is a rumble — probably because if its uniqueness — about the Netflix animated series “Blue Eye Samurai,” created and written by husband and wife writing team Michael Green and Amber Noizumi (Green has a very lengthy TV series credit list and also wrote the movies “Logan,” “Bladerunner 2049” and all three Hercule Poirot movies starting Kenneth Branagh).

But it’s Noizumi’s mixed-race background that infuses the series, about a revenge-filled samurai named Mizu (Maya Erskine, “Pen15”). Set in the 1600s of Japan’s isolationist Edo period, where no one knew much about or had even seen white people, Noizumi and Green (who also writes comic books), imagined the secret presence in the country of four white men, one of whom is Mizu’s father (hence the blue eyes).

While the first episode is written in a way that suggests the original idea was to possibly keep it a secret that Mizu is female, it’s really not much of a spoiler given that Netflix itself gives that away in the show description and Mizu certainly sounds like a woman and any review or Google search just to figure out, let’s say, what the buzz is about, will lead you to Maya Erskine in the lead role. And, based on the title (and then the written intro to the series) we also know that Mizu’s blue eyes mark her as an outcast.

So she has two secrets.

Her rage, then, is to kill the father that brought her into this world (and dozens and dozens of people who get in the way) while constantly keeping her eyes covered with special glasses to hide her bright blues (plus a huge hat that gives off serious Clint Eastwood Western vibes).

But “Blue Eye Samurai” isn’t connected in any needful way to spoilers — the audience is hip to things pretty quickly. No, the series stands on its own in this Two Episode Test because of its graphically appealing animation, bloody samurai components and a kind of surprising adult take on sex (yep, animated sex and nudity). Part of the uniqueness is the unabashed way the series just kicks right off with violence, sexuality and, at least so far, an intriguing enough storyline (with each episode kind of surprisingly filling, with ease, one full hour).

If you’re looking for the source of the show’s nascent buzz, it probably starts right there in that tasty mix. There are not a lot of series of this kind. But “Blue Eye Samurai” has more going for it than being animation for adults. You’re always hoping for the backbone of a good story in any new series and this one at least appears ready to pack eight hours with compelling strands.

Here’s some early hope I saw (and maybe a little to worry about as well):