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CAT BURGLAR (2022) on Netflix: TV series or video game?

Netflix has a new cartoon called Cat Burglar (2022), which is an interactive trivia game. Getting the answers correct will lead to the to title character successfully stealing a precious painting. Getting enough of them wrong leads to the cat burglar losing to a canine security guard and dying for good.

The cat burglar has three lives per game. If you answer a set of trivia questions correctly, the cat will survive the rest of the scene. If not, one of his lives, depicted as a ghostly soul, will leave his body.

IMDb lists the cartoon as a TV series, but has no episode information. It's not clear to me that it should be listed this way. You watch a different cartoon each time, but they seem to be more akin to levels than episodes. But they're not quite levels either, because you're not progressing toward a goal.

In any case, it will be difficult to identify individual episodes of this cartoon. They're not named individually. They're not presented on Netflix as episodes.

Maybe other contributors could check out this cartoon on Netflix and give their opinions.

UPDATE: One episode just appeared a few minutes ago. It looks like someone is in the process of adding them, though it's not clear how he is identifying them.

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Looking at how other similar Netflix interactive productions are listed (You vs. Wild: Out Cold, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch) (Cat Burglar is even made by same people that made Bandersnatch) and the official listing, it looks like it should be listed as a short film.

There is a Netflix interactive listed as series too: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10044952/

but that's consistent with its official listing: https://www.netflix.com/title/80227574

That can't be told for Cat Burglar, it's listed as a short film on Netflix.

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4 years ago

Hi jay_spirit -

As mbmb observed above, this interactive title should be listed as a short film.  I have now adjusted the title type accordingly.

Cheers!