![]() ![]() The series opens with messy-haired, blue-suited hotshot Spike Spiegel (John Cho) and his more responsible, subdued partner, Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), a disgraced ex-cop with a metal arm, arriving at the scene of a casino robbery. Though this is ostensibly a story about down-on-their-luck bounty hunters in a dingy future, the world is unimaginatively staged and overly lit, resulting in an inescapably artificial look. By any standard, adapting one of the most beloved and influential works of animation is a tall order, but the series immediately gets off on the wrong foot just for the way it looks. At its worst, Netflix’s take on the 1998 sci-fi anime series Cowboy Bebop recalls the redundancy and general inferiority of a live-action remake of a Disney animated film.
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