Genre: Documentary/ Crime
Number of episodes: 3
Year: 2019
Starring: Deanna Thompson, John Green, Claudette Hamlin, Antonio Paradiso, Anna Yourkin, Benjamin Xu
Description: A group of justice seekers track down a guy who posted a video of him killing kittens.
Review: The three-part true-crime series “Don’t F**c with Cats” has the most effect on people who watch the series without any prior knowledge. Maybe that’s why Netflix launched the series the day before Christmas, relatively low-profile; yet the documentary spread like a social media hype in just a few days.
The title refers to the first rule of the internet, tells casino employee and internet nerd Deanna Thompson, aka Baudi Moovan. Anyone who dares to hurt kittens a hair will be hunted by a driven community that will not rest until the culprit is found.
“Don’t F**k with Cats” director and Emmy-winner Mark Lewis doesn’t show the three gruesome movies in which a perverted young man tortures and kills young kittens. But the suggestion is enough: the viewer immediately understands why the Facebook group that Deanna and her internet friend ‘John Green’ create is doing everything they can to find and punish the perpetrator.
As fully-fledged detectives, they study all the clues offered by the videos: where is that bedspread for sale? Can that vacuum cleaner only be ordered in the US? Is that Russian music we hear in the background? However, the actually insane undertaking degenerates into a real-life manhunt when the deranged animal torturer seems to shift his field of activity by torturing and killing people.
“Don’t F**k with Cats” is, partly due to the avalanche of astonishing archive and news images and the energetic editing, so much more that a three hours of ‘talking heads’ reconstructing an already bizarre enough story itself. Above all, it is a bizarre and bloodcurdling thriller, the outcome of which cannot be guessed until the last moment and which no writer could have invented.
But in the meantime, director Lewis also paints an accurate picture of the pros and cons of the role that the digital world has come to play in our modern lives in a short space of time. Lonely people can, if they join forces behind their computers, actually be able to track down hyperintelligent killers. But at the same time, the world wide web also offers a stage to disturbed people who enjoy all the attention they get. “Don’t F**k with Cats” is one of the best crime docu series I have seen in a long time.
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