Netflix's live-action adaptation of the anime classic 'Cowboy Bebop' is a pulpy, genre-blending hit. Read Alan Sepinwall's review.
, the late-Nineties Japanese series that introduced a generation of Western viewers to the world of anime. So I can’t speak to how faithful or satisfying fans of the original will find itslive-action remake. But the new version very much feels like a project with anime roots, and has for the most part figured out how to make its influences work with flesh-and-blood actors and practical sets. It’s a lot of fun.
The show is just self-deprecating enough to get away with its various affectations, making sure to show, for example, how bored Faye is whenever Jet begins monologuing about his favorite music. Those stories are mixed and matched from the anime, and merge bounty-of-the-week plots with the more serialized Syndicate story, which plays out in the background until late in the first season. It’s always a relief to see a streaming drama that both deploys standalone stories in its episodes and is proficient at telling them, which avoids the kind of narrative bloat that tends to infect a lot of Netflix series.
Much of the strength of the bounty stories is a credit to the easy, lived-in chemistry between Shakir as the frustrated and responsible straight man and Cho as the cocky live-wire. Both actors are excellent , and Cho in particular is so effortlessly cool and charismatic that it’s a wonder Hollywood hasn’t tried him in leading roles more often over the years.
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