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The Live-Action ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Is Just the Latest Victim of ‘Netflix Bloat’

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Caroline Framke Chief TV Critic(This post contains no spoilers for the first season of “Cowboy Bebop,” now streaming on Netflix.)Netflix’s live-action remake of “Cowboy Bebop” tries to be so much all at once, and appeal to so many different potential audiences, that it ends up struggling to forge an identity of its own.For fans of the iconic, relatively solemn Japanese anime that inspired it, the show’s reliance on borderline whacky hijinks (think an R-rated “Scooby Doo”) will be nothing short of confounding.

For newcomers, the show might also confuse as it hops across crisscrossing planets and timelines, weaving between vastly differing tones as it goes.

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