Godly cats and bad monkeys
The Citizen|September 13, 2024
Exploding Kittens’ takes comedy through religious themes to a new level.
Hein Kaiser
Godly cats and bad monkeys

Entertainment just keeps on getting better as streamers compete for eyeballs. Us, the audience, outright winners as streamers compete for subscriptions and attention span with brilliant programming that would have likely never made it onto traditional channels or occupied late night slots in the past.

Exploding Kittens on Netflix is a show that would have most definitely been banned in the '80s. Imagine that God sits around a boardroom table with his set of heavenly directors. God is told by his managing colleagues that He should return to earth to reconnect with humans and, before he could argue against the notion too much, a trapdoor opens and chutes Him down to earth, as a housecat.

Godcat, voiced by Tom Ellis, drops into an average suburban family, the Higgins. It's His first assignment; the mission to get the family to bond. But there is a catch; amongst morals, Godcat's magical powers are not as powerful below, as it had once been above, so every mission requires an extra measure of wile. After several failed attempts at pulling the Higgins family closer, Godcat eventually succeeds, and expects to be instantly teleported back to heaven. Of course, that doesn't happen...

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