On Dec. 18, 2019, Netflix produced the raw documentation of a group of Internet crime hunters and their search for justice in a series of brutal cat murders. The three-part series follows the upsetting and gruesome story of the attempt to expose the mystery man behind several anger-provoking videos.

“Don’t F**k With Cats,” begins with Deanna Thompson telling the story of a Facebook group that bloomed after the uploading of a video named “1 boy 2 kittens.” In the video, an unknown man places two kittens in a vacuum seal bag, sucking the air from the bag and suffocating the cats, leaving them lifeless. The deranged video created a large stir on the Internet and resulted in a vast group of Internet geeks, eager to diminish the enigmatic killer placed in the frame of these brutal cat murders. 

The Facebook group would later begin to scrutinize nearly every aspect of the videos posted, from the bedspread to the origin of cigarettes found in the video. The group numbers exploded as the grotesque videos continued and the eagerness to suppress the demented, attention-craving cat killer grew. 

As the documentary progresses, the hunt for the cat killer develops into a more complex and detailed search. John Green joins Thompson on the hunt. The two spend nearly two years extinguishing all resources they have to put an end to the bloodthirsty killer. The chase never grew cold due to the continuation of revolting videos, each video revealing more information that would lead them closer to his location. 

The final episodes of the documentary tell the unexpected and hideous end to the chase for justice. Netflix fuses many fast-paced and well thought out scenes to conclude the series, making the third episode almost impossible to peel away from. The twists and turns of the series established a more captivated audience and cannot be replicated.

This true-crime documentary has watchers devoted to the manhunt from the first opening scenes. The strange documentation, told from two dedicated, detective-like Facebook users, was unexpectedly everything I needed in a Netflix series. “Don’t F**k With Cats,” is recommended to anyone looking for a strange take on a true-crime thriller, that leaves you questioning your part in the Internet frenzy that potentially spiraled into the final events of the docu-series.