The Cuphead Show will finally premiere on Netflix soon.
On Tuesday, the streaming giant announced that The Cuphead Show’s first season will go live on Feb. 18, 2022. Season one will contain 12 episodes, each about 12 minutes in runtime a piece.
The series is a video game adaptation of Cuphead, an action platformer that came out in 2017. It was quite the critical and commercial darling at the time, evident by its 86 Metacritic score for the Xbox version. Cuphead eventually made it on PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC, and macOS.
A trailer for The Cuphead Show also went live Tuesday, which you can check below. The biggest name attached to the show is undoubtedly Wayne Brady, who plays the villainous King Dice.
Netflix has a pretty decent track record adapting video game licenses as of late. Arcane: League of Legends was a massive hit on the platform, so much that a second season is already on the way.
It’s hard to say if The Cuphead Show will reach similar levels of prestige. Still, if nothing else, Netflix has shown they won’t (necessarily) pump out more terrible video game adaptations — we have more than enough of those.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
