Kat spends her entire savings to open a cat cafe in Louisville, Kentucky.Kat spends her entire savings to open a cat cafe in Louisville, Kentucky.Kat spends her entire savings to open a cat cafe in Louisville, Kentucky.
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- TriviaThis show is an American version of ITV's Miranda by Miranda Hart. It ran for 4 seasons and 20 total episodes.
- GoofsKat is telling her employees they will get a bonus for coming up with the best name for the cat she is holding. They all refer to the multicolored cat as "him" but it is clearly a Tortoiseshell Calico. The odds of a Calico being male are astronomically low. It is a well-known fact that Calico cats are almost always female.
- Crazy creditsDuring the end credits, the actors momentarily break character to wave to the viewers.
- SoundtracksFirework
Written by Katy Perry, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen (as Mikkel S. Eriksen), Tor Erik Hermansen, Sandy Vee and Ester Dean
Performed by Mayim Bialik
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Worse than the source material, but I'm still watching.
Some thoughts for American fans of Miranda, the British sitcom on which Call Me Kat is based:
For us -- the few, the proud, the self-professedly quirky -- this reincarnation is liable to stir up old feelings. From the cold open direct address, Call Me Kat establishes itself as a descendant of the original: the joke shop is now a cat cafe and Stevie's been split into 2 characters to run it, but we've still got our oddball heroine and her dashing love interest (who we hope to find out is a little goofy too.)
Pluck this conceit straight from 2009, kick it across the pond, and it plays (forgive me) worse. Kooky is hard to pull off, and the tone of the pilot episode veers towards obnoxious then overcorrects into saccharine, rarely striking quite the right balance. Sometimes the tracked laughs seem misplaced, the turns to camera slightly off time, the jokes a little awkward coming from Kat's mouth rather than Miranda's. But there are also moments where it works, including my favorite from the pilot, a sweet callback from Max (new Gary) all the way to a bit taken from the original series.
Is Call Me Kat as fresh and sweet as Miranda? Well, no, but I'm quite in love with the original so that's a biasing factor. Will I keep watching to see how it stacks up? Yes, definitely. It's trite, and not master cinema, but I could use a little comfort and I wasn't so scared off that I won't be back in search of more fruit friends next week.
For us -- the few, the proud, the self-professedly quirky -- this reincarnation is liable to stir up old feelings. From the cold open direct address, Call Me Kat establishes itself as a descendant of the original: the joke shop is now a cat cafe and Stevie's been split into 2 characters to run it, but we've still got our oddball heroine and her dashing love interest (who we hope to find out is a little goofy too.)
Pluck this conceit straight from 2009, kick it across the pond, and it plays (forgive me) worse. Kooky is hard to pull off, and the tone of the pilot episode veers towards obnoxious then overcorrects into saccharine, rarely striking quite the right balance. Sometimes the tracked laughs seem misplaced, the turns to camera slightly off time, the jokes a little awkward coming from Kat's mouth rather than Miranda's. But there are also moments where it works, including my favorite from the pilot, a sweet callback from Max (new Gary) all the way to a bit taken from the original series.
Is Call Me Kat as fresh and sweet as Miranda? Well, no, but I'm quite in love with the original so that's a biasing factor. Will I keep watching to see how it stacks up? Yes, definitely. It's trite, and not master cinema, but I could use a little comfort and I wasn't so scared off that I won't be back in search of more fruit friends next week.
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- knmcgauley
- Jan 5, 2021
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