A 10-episode live-action “Cowboy Bebop” series from writer and executive producer Christopher Yost (Thor: The Dark World, Thor: Ragnarok) just came to Netflix on November 19, with John Cho (Searching) leading the cast as Spike Spiegel. It seemed “Bebop” was going to be a potential hit franchise for Netflix but, well, things don’t always go as planned.
After just one season, Netflix has already pulled the plug on “Cowboy Bebop,” which wasn’t exactly a hit for critics or longtime fans of the property. And we can only assume the viewership just wasn’t there, leaving the streamer with no choice but to give the series the axe.
The show’s one and only season includes ten total episodes, all available for streaming right now. You can also stream the original animated series over on Netflix as well.
Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending story of a rag-tag crew of bounty hunters on the run from their pasts, as they hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals.
They’ll even save the world…for the right price.
“Cowboy Bebop is an action-packed space Western about three bounty hunters, aka “cowboys,” all trying to outrun the past. As different as they are deadly, Spike Spiegel (John Cho), Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir), and Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda) form a scrappy, snarky crew ready to hunt down the solar system’s most dangerous criminals — for the right price. But they can only kick and quip their way out of so many scuffles before their pasts finally catch up with them.”
The series also stars Alex Hassell and Elena Satine.
“Cowboy Bebop is executive produced by André Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, Josh Appelbaum and Scott Rosenberg of Midnight Radio, Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements of Tomorrow Studios, Makoto Asanuma, Shin Sasaki and Masayuki Ozaki of Sunrise Inc., Tim Coddington, Tetsu Fujimura, Michael Katleman, Matthew Weinberg, and Christopher Yost. Nemec serves as showrunner. Original anime series director Shinichirō Watanabe is a consultant on the series, and original composer Yoko Kanno returns for the live-action adaptation.”