Cowboy Bebop (2021) 1.01

Cowboy Gospel

This series is based on the anime series of the same name that is over 20 years old. It is a live action version of the original/ There are a lot of similarities between the two. The opening scene and most of this episode and lifted from the anime series. This isn't much of a reimaging. It is more of a remake.

I had my doubts when I heard that Netflix was attempting a live action version of Cowboy Bebop. My hopes for the show rose when I saw the trailer. My hopes were dashed when I saw this episode. I didn't want or expect it to live up to the original. I was expecting something different. I was ready for it to be different. I wasn't ready for what I got.

Cowboy Bebop 1.26

The Real Folk Blues (Part 2)

Spike reunites with Julia. She wants to run away with him. He wants to deal with Vicious. They aren't given much of a choice. Syndicate killers come after them. Spike and Julia fight back. They take out a number of syndicate men but Julia is killed.

Cowboy Bebop 1.25

The Real Folk Blues (Part 1)

Vicious, who hasn't been seen since 1.13 (Jupiter Jazz - Part 2) tries to take down the leaders of the criminal syndicate. His attempt fails and they lock him up.

Gunmen from the syndicate attack Spike and Jet while they are in the Loser Bar on Mars. They aren't sure what to make of it but they fight back. Jet gets shot in the leg. Shin, Lin's brother shows up to help them out. He tells them know about what happened to Vicious. He stays behind while they escape.

Cowboy Bebop 1.24

Hard Luck Woman

Faye and Ed land the ship on Earth, it was headed toward Mars. They go on a little trip. Faye is looking for a piece of her past. She's been watching the video she got from her past which was last seen in 1.18 (Speak Like a Child). There's a fountain in the video. Ed says she knows where it is.

Cowboy Bebop 1.23

Brain Scratch

Faye has joined SCRATCH, am electronic transendence group or cult. She was very depressed about the debt collectors coming after her and seems to see the cult as a way out of her predicament, or maybe she's after a bounty. The latter seems like the more likely answer.

Cowboy Bebop 1.22

Cowboy Funk

Spike has caught up to Teddy Bomber. He is about to take the guy in for a bounty when Andy the Cowboy shows up. Andy thinks that Spike is Teddy Bomber. Teddy gets away and blows up part of the building that he was intending to destroy while Andy is chasing Spike, on horseback.

Cowboy Bebop 1.21

Boogie Woogie Feng Shui

The Bebop travels to Mars after Jet gets a message from Pao, an old acqaintance. He quickly finds out that Pao is dead. He goes to visit Pao's grave. He meets Meifa, Pao's teenage daughter. They are chased from the cemetery and around town by two men who start shooting at them.

Cowboy Bebop 1.20

Pierrot Le Fou

Spike becomes the target of a super-powered hit man after he stumbles across him just after he killed some mobsters. Spike just barely escapes. He is badly injured but that doesn't stop him from accepting a challenge from the hit man.

Cowboy Bebop 1.19

Wild Horses

Spike runs into Doohan, an old friend after crashing on a planet. Doohan fixes up the Swordfish, Spike's ship.

The rest of the Bebop's crew are high above the planet trying to catch some Space Pirates. The pirates turn out to be a little more competent than Jet and Faye are expecting them to be. They take control's of Faye's ship and turn it on the Hammerhead, Jet's ship.

Cowboy Bebop 1.18

Speak Like a Child

Faye returns from an unsuccessful day spent gambling at a race track. Jet accepted a package for her while she was gone. It was sent COD with no return address. He wants her to pay up, because he paid for it. She thinks it might be from debt collectors, freaks out, and immediately leaves.

Cowboy Bebop 1.17

Mushroom Samba

The crew of the Bebop are out of fuel, out of food, and drifting through space. The Bebop gets hit by another ship. The other ship takes off. The Bebop crash lands on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. The suface looks a lot like the desert southwest of North America. Ed and Ein go looking for food while the others work on fixing the ship.

Cowboy Bebop 1.16

Black Dog Serenade

Jet answers a call from Fad, an old friend. Fad and Jet were partners when Jet was with the Inter-Solar System Police (ISSP). The last case they worked on together was the case that cost Jet his left arm. They were on the trail of an mob assassin named Udai. Jet got caught in an ambush, was badly injured, and quit the force.

Cowboy Bebop 1.15

My Funny Valentine

Something jogs Faye's memory and she flashes back to before she met the crew of the Bebop. She remembers how little she remembers and why. She remembers Whitney Hagas Matsumoto, a man with whom she fell in love and who broke her heart. He's dead now, or so she thinks until he shows up very much alive and with a bounty on his head.

Cowboy Bebop 1.14

Bohemian Rhapsody

The Bebop bounty hunters are on the trail of someone (or maybe a gang of someones) that are robbing the interstellar toll booths. They are not alone in searching for these bandits. They catch many of the people known to have stolen money via the toll booths but none of them have the money they stole or much information about how it was done. The criminal mastermind behind it all remains on the loose.

Cowboy Bebop 1.13

Jupiter Jazz (Part 2)

Gren tells Faye about how he and Vicious served together in the war on Titan. He also tells her about what happened to him after they parted ways, how he went to prison, and how he got to be the way he is now. He suspects that Vicious is at least partly responsible for his arrest.

Cowboy Bebop 1.12

Jupiter Jazz (Part 1)

Faye runs off with the money. Ed does some online searching for her and turns up something linked to Spike's past. Jet tries to argue with his partner but Spike takes off in search of Julia and Vicious (last seen in 1.05 - Ballad of the Fallen Angels). Spike doesn't have much luck searching for Julia on Jupiter. One person he meets tells him that someone named Gren might know where to find Julia.

Cowboy Bebop 1.11

Toys in the Attic

Something is aboard the Bebop, something more than just the usual five. Jet is the first one to get bit by it. He was investigating what looked like a fridge of unknown origin in the cargo hold at the time. It gets him in the back of the neck. Spike takes a blood sample and tries crosschecking it against the ship's database of known diseases without any luck. Faye thinks that Jet and Spike are being overly dramatic. She is the second victim.

Cowboy Bebop 1.10

Ganymede Elegy

The Bebop stops on Ganymede, Jet's home planet. They are there to turn in a bounty whom they caught between this episode and the last one. Edward is still with them but doesn't play a very big role in this episode. The same can be said about Faye. She catches some rays in a bikini while Spike turns in the bounty and Jet visits an old friend, an old girlfriend, Alisa.

Cowboy Bebop 1.09

Jamming with Edward

The Bebop stops on Earth. What brought them there isn't clear but when they hear about a big bounty for a hacker they stick around long enough to learn that once again not everything is as it seems. The hacker's name is Edward. They go looking for him but can't seem to find any reliable information about Edward. Instead of finding Edward, Edward finds them.

Cowboy Bebop 1.08

Waltz for Venus

Spike and Faye thwart a hijacking attempt aboard a passenger ship bound for Venus. Roco Bonnaro, who was sitting next to Spike had nothing to do with the hijacking but turns out to be a wanted man. Roco has a bounty on his head but he is also wanted by some mobsters who also have bounties on their heads.