In the anime, we rarely see Vicious, who’s made menacing largely because his motivations are unclear, his cruelty often senseless as he plots to overtake the Red Dragon Syndicate, an organization whose activities are also ambiguous but involve drug trafficking and assassinations. The new, deadly serious Red Dragon Syndicate plotline is largely responsible for the show’s suffocating pace, taking up a massive amount of the season’s runtime. It’s a mess of fan service and attempted reinvention that only adds up to an overstuffed final product each hourlong episode is packed full of as much stuff as the runtime will allow -unrelenting quips, endless exposition-without ever giving the viewer a moment to breathe. The premiere, for example, follows most of the beats of the anime’s first episode, establishes the Vicious plotline, and, for good measure, tacks on a redux of the opening of the well-received (but difficult-to-find) 2002 film Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Most episodes of Netflix’s take on Cowboy Bebop follow the same formula: Take the plot from an episode from the anime in its entirety, add some original scenes or a subplot to fill the runtime, and fold in the new storyline for now-expanded characters Vicious (Alex Hassell), a member of the criminal Red Dragon Syndicate, from which Spike defected, and Julia (Elena Satine), Spike’s mysterious former lover. While Spike, Jet, and Faye remain at the Netflix take’s core, and the story is mostly similar, showrunner Andre Nemec also looks for ways to make this Bebop his own-to his detriment and our disappointment. The pair are joined by Faye Valentine (a wannabe femme fatale drowning in mountains of debt), Radical Edward (an eccentric 13-year-old hacker), and a genius corgi, Ein. Set in the year 2071, the original series tells the story of former crime syndicate member Spike Spiegel and ex–Inter Solar System Police officer Jet Black, both of whom make a living as bounty hunters while traveling across the galaxy on their ship, the Bebop. ![]() Thanks for signing up! You can manage your newsletter subscriptions at any time.
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