Cat’s Eyes stars three kick-ass sisters in an action/adventure/crime/sisterhood drama that is fun to watch even though it’s 100% unrealistic. It’s based on manga by the same name and has been approved for a second season. This review is only about season one.

The Cat’s Eyes cast begins and ends with the sisters. Sylia (Constance Labbé) is the eldest. Since the father died several years ago when his art gallery burned down, Sylia has stayed in charge of the youngest sister Alex (Claire Romain). Alex is pretty much grown up now, but Sylia still feels very protective.

The middle sister, Tam (Camille Lou), just returned to Paris after being away for five years. The sisters’ apartment is above that of Hélène (Carole Bouquet), who has looked after them since they lost their father.

The sisters do parkour, climb walls, rappel from great heights, jump from airplanes, fight like ninjas, and can make a plan to steal a piece of art from a well guarded place like the Louvre in two minutes flat. The opening scenes are of Tam scampering all over the scaffolding on the outside of the Eiffel Tower running from the police.

Why is Tam jumping from beam to beam in the open air above Paris? For the last 10 years, the sisters believed all their father’s art burned up and he died in the same fire. But they see one of their father’s paintings in a display for collectors in the Eiffel Tower. Finding a painting that should not exist makes them believe they don’t know the truth about their father and sets them off on a quest to learn the what really happened.

Each of the women have romantic interests. Sylia is with Abel (Simon Ehrlacher), a restaurant manager. His restaurant looks to be in for important changes in season 2. Alex has a closeted girlfriend named Lili (Loryn Nounay). They are planning to get an apartment together. Tam’s ex is a cop named Quentin (Mohamed Belkhir). It’s so convenient that he is the cop in charge of art theft crimes, isn’t it? While Tam was gone for five years, Quentin dated fellow officer Gwen (Cindy Bruna). Gwen is jealous of Tam, and for good reason.

All that is background to the action parts of the series. The sisters begin breaking into places that nobody could break into, but of course, they can. They are looking for not only art that belonged to their father but a particular painting with a memory chip hidden in it. That will tell them more about their father’s situation and maybe lead to more lost art and even a murderer.

In eight episodes of about an hour each, the sisters break into Versailles, the Bastion, the Louvre, and a big safe. They leap onto moving barges, hang by one hand under bridges, and break into the well-guarded chateau of kingpin collector Dalembert (Guillaume de Tonquédec). Dalembert is in a wheelchair, but his sister Prudence (Élodie Fontan) is willing to do his dirty work.

I really enjoyed watching these women do all the physical stuff, but the plot was hard to believe. It was so unrealistic it was almost funny sometimes. There were so many wigs and costumes produced in an instant. Every tool a burglar could want was in someone’s backpack. The cops couldn’t recognize someone they knew well when their hair was a different color or they wore a mask at a ball. Or, like Superman, all it took was a pair of glasses. Still, for an action series with tough women characters, it was a fun watch.

You can see this one on Hulu.