Season Review: Cat Agent Season Two

Despite flaws, the show stays solid, but for how long?

In the heyday of money-making independent animation on Youtube, Cat Agent from Emmy-award winning director Kent Osborne was right at home. A series following the silly adventures of a Cat running a rep agency for cats belonging to famous people. It’s a funny concept that lends itself to a time where you just had to get content posted on a weekly basis, and the newly rabid Youtube fanbase would flock and come check you out.

Nowadays, that model isn’t viable and as such we have a growth in streaming services. For my money, VRV/Mondo has been the most impressive outside of the big league streaming services providing us with a steady diet of new, returning, and acquired programming that should keep subscribers locked in for the time being. Unfortunately, the brilliance of a series like Last Man has shone a spotlight on the cracks that have formed underneath the likes of Deep Space 69 and Cat Agent.

In the case of Cat Agent, an entertaining start to the show’s second season had given way to a season rife with an uncertainty of where it wanted to go. For one part of the show’s season, Cat Agent was really sick, but we got over it in a relatively quick fashion. In another instance, Cat Agent falls in love in the second to last episode but has to part ways with his love interest in the finale, a consequence that would’ve worked had we been privy to a budding relationship during the course of an entire season per se, instead viewers aren’t given enough time to really build a relationship with new characters or story arcs long enough to give a damn by the time they end. Again, if you’re in the deep pool that is Youtube, you deal with this, but in the streaming world, a writer’s room would take a couple of these arcs and expand on them and create a serial that forces the viewer to hang on for dear life to their subscription.

That said, aside from the occasional and all too cliched Trump jokes, Cat Agent’s second season is a positive one. But, the writing has to get a HECK of a lot better to be considered a “must watch”.