Pierrot Le Fou (Episode 20)
… and then a standalone that reminds you that actually, sometimes Bebop can just be full-on horror in its twisty-turny approaches to genre. “Pierrot Le Fou” follows Spike as he finds himself the target of the titular, almost supernatural killer. If “Toys in the Attic” pulled Bebop’s examination of sci-fi to a more light-hearted side, this slickly animated episode is a much darker mirror, delivering something quite unlike anything else Bebop does in its 26 episode run. Plus, the live-action show’s title sequence gives us a brief glimpse of the villain, so it’ll be interesting to see just how it handles the series’ big tonal switch too.
