Series is complete.
Best viewed with English dub.
Samurai Champloo is a fantastic blend of pop culture and the Edo period. The characters dynamics are very finely balanced and the writers did an excellent job at developing the relationships between them. The two leads are a unique take on a classic tale of the cold and calculating mixing with the hot headed and rash.
Samurai Champloo's storyline is paced maturely and there's only one or two fillers, but they liven it up so effectively that you tend to not mind. I found a really nice meld of humour and drama that's topped off with a garnish of hip-hop/pop. There are lots of comparisons online between this and Cowboy Bebop for a reason.
I highly recommend this to everyone, especially those who want to see the second best English voice acting I've ever seen in an anime.
Additional info:
http://myanimelist.net/anime/205/Samurai_Champloo
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=1543