Netflix's latest adult animation offering, Exploding Kittens, is a bonkers card game adaptation that is fun, even if overly familiar.
, or a board game) into a movie or TV show if you have the budget and the right people to make it happen, even a silly card game that foundon Kickstarter nearly a decade ago.
Once the freshness of the concept wears off after the first few episodes, the lack of a coherent central plot becomes palpable. Don’t get me wrong, the writers pack in plenty of quick-witted jokes with the right amount of pop culture references—needling stars like Timothee Chalamet or Steven Spielberg—alongside some creative and hilarious cat-based jests. Story and character-wise, however,doesn’t deliver anything out of the ordinary.
On the other hand, the two crazy cats are the bread and butter of the series, and they more or less deliver what you want from them. Since God is basically a manchild with a fancy accent and Beelzebub is an insecure twenty-something chick with a vivacious persona, they make a frenetic duo.
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