Netflix’s Cat Burglar is here to entertain and take interactive quizzes
Plus: Netflix also offers the end of Love Is Blind: Japan, and the docuseries Race: Bubba Wallace
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Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Tuesday, February 22. All times are Eastern.
Top Pick
Cat Burglar (Netflix, 3:01 a.m.): This animated comedy special spoofs old Warner Brothers cartoons; it’s written by BoJack Horseman alum Mike Hollingsworth and James Bowman. The comedy uses the same interactive technology behind the Black Mirror spinoff Bandersnatch, and also boasts Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones as producers.
Although in this case, you’ll be asked to answer witty trivia questions to progress through the story. Viewers must help Rowdy Cat get one over on Peanut The Security Pup and break into a museum to steal some prized paintings. Cat Burglar can be played multiple times to unlock previously unseen sequences. Voices come from James Adomian, Trevor Devall, and Alan Lee. Will it be more violent than those old-school cartoons—or even just as violent?
Here’s a video to remind you what that was like:
And here’s the real trailer. What differences can you find?
Regular coverage
This Is Us (NBC, 9 p.m.)
Wild cards
Love Is Blind: Japan (Netflix, 3:01 a.m.): It’s already time for the first season finale of Netflix’s popular reality show’s Japanese version.
To continue the streak of reality TV, why not also watch:
UnREAL: Season 1 (Hulu): Are you missing Peacemaker already too? Or maybe more specifically, Vigilante? Rewatch Freddie Stroma in what is still a very relevant parody of The Bachelor, and all those dating realities shows ever. It’s still so good and disturbing in what it says about dating in a reality show format.
Race: Bubba Wallace (Netflix, 3:01 a.m.): This docuseries follows Bubba Wallace, the only Black driver currently in NASCAR’s Cup Series, as he uses his voice and talent to change the sport. Hopefully, he’ll answer the one question we all wanna know about Nascar drivers: How accurate was Talladega Nights?
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UnREAL season 1 was great, definitely worth watching. Season 2 was a nosedive, and seasons 3 and 4 are best not spoken about.
Thats one of the rare shows where I started a second season and never bothered to finish it. Season 1 was an unexpected delight.
All of that is true, but I will say the series finale was a good time.
Cat Burglar just seems off. I don’t know what it is, but no one seems able to recreate the comedy of those early cartoons. In the 2000s when my kid was little, and/or my nieces and nephews would come over, they would make me play over and over again the Goofy sports cartoons. I watched them when I was a kid, and they were 40 years old then. There’s a timeless hilarity to them that I’ve never witnessed on modern cartoons.
there was some clever scenes, and i like that it was aimed more towards adults and that the evil character can win, but goddamn was the cat overly sadistic
I mean, it’s not even as gory as Itchy and Scratchy. Also, the dog is clearly the sadistic one.
i dunno, i tried twice and each win the cat mercilessly kills (descending in his gold helicopter and chopping him with the propeller blades) the dog (whos poor and digging out of a trashcan for scraps), and afterward the cat just laughs maniacally.
I think the method of animation hampers it. It’s not hand-drawn any more; they just make some stock poses, limbs, etc. and then just frame-by-frame move them around. It’s very limiting if done poorly, but it can be done pretty well (like those new Mickey shorts, or The Cuphead Show).
UnReal is so, so good.
I’m trying to figure out if/when the other shoe drops on Cat Burglar. Especially knowing it’s from the Black Mirror guy.I’ve already gotten a few “off” moments that suggested something else is going on, but not quite on par with Bandersnatch’s mind-fuck way of making what felt like a replay pivot in to what revealed itself as a continuation of the current branch.