10 Amazing First Episodes Of Brilliant TV Series

Cowboy Bebop is the most brilliantly unique tv series ever made, and anyone that hasn't seen it is seriously missing out. A brilliant blend of noir, sci-fi and trying to escape the past, you will never feel quite the same after finishing it. Like many others on this list it is a complicated world of diverse characters. Rather than spread themselves too thing trying to cover everything in a 20 minute episode they chose a much more clever strategy.

The first episode of Cowboy Bebop is a masterclass in show don't tell. Rather than get bogged down in complex stories or character introductions, they simply show two of the main characters chasing a bounty. By doing so they focus more on capturing the essence of the series in a single short story.

You are told nothing about Spike Spiegel, but seeing him him charm his way through life and enjoy fighting shows his laid back nature. You know nothing of Jet Black's backstory, but from seeing his bonsai tree and hearing the manner in which he addresses Spike you can see he is tempered and serious. You know nothing of the world of Cowboy Bebop, but the episode's setting on a colonised asteroid tells you we are in a world beyond Earth.

The creators give you no details, but capture the soul of the show so perfectly in this episode that you don't need them. So much of what makes Cowboy Bebop great is in its mood, the atmosphere, in what characters don't say. This is so brilliantly demonstrated In this amazing first episode.