The Adventures of Puss in Boots is a spin-off television series in the Shrek universe based on the film Puss in Boots. It was executively produced by Doug Langdale, who is best known for his work on The Weekenders and El Tigre: The Adventures of Many Rivera.
The television series debuted on Netflix on January 16, 2015, and concluded on January 26, 2018. The series was removed from the said service on December 29, 2023 in the US.
Overview[]
Set before the events of Puss in Boots, our favorite feline hero, decided to live some other adventures before retiring to live happily with his friends but he accidentally takes down the protective barrier around the mythical town of San Lorenzo. After his mistake he swears to restore the protective barrier. To do so, in the end, he must pay the ultimate price to save his friends and the world itself.
Plot[]
Season 1[]
Puss in Boots discovers a secret town called, San Lorenzo and meets all of it's colorful characters. When Puss accidentally breaks the town's protective spell, he vows to protect the town from robbers and villains. With the help of his new friends, Dulcinea and Artephius, Puss discovers all sorts of magical places, artifacts and becomes the hero that he was born to be.
Season 2[]
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Season 3[]
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Season 4[]
The Bloodwolf has been summoned, so it's up to Puss and Dulcinea to go on a quest to find pieces of the Crown of Souls. But it ended up being the next part of Uli’s evil plan.
Season 5[]
With the Bloodwolf defeated, Puss believes everything to be alright not knowing that creatures are coming out of the portal to the Netherworld. Over the season Puss fights off the creatures, with the help of Dulcinea, Artepheus, and the other citizens of San Lorenzo, and attempts to close the portal. After failed attempts to close the portal Puss, Artepheus, Dulcinea, Toby, and Babieca. Upon arrival they find out they have gained new powers, all except for Puss. They find help from a resistance within the Netherworld to overthrow the ruler of it, The Blind Kind, and restore the old ruler, The Tiny Queen. Once they restore the Tiny Queen to power, she blocks the portal, but cannot close it. With the portal blocked and nothing able to get through, Puss and friends return home to find graves in front of the portal, their graves.
Season 6[]
Upon finding their own graves at the end of Season 5, Puss and friend go to town to investigate what happened only to find out they were gone for a year, although for them it had been a few days. The town assumed them to be dead and had funerals. Once the people of the town found out that Puss had not died they returned to throw the bandits out of town. All is peaceful now in San Lorenzo, except lately there have been earthquakes, growing more in number and in intensity each day. Puss starts to looks for a way to stop these earthquakes only to find out that the portal to the Netherworld is unstable and that Earth and the Netherworld are bound to collide. After learning of this, Puss, Dulcinea, Cleevil, and Artepheus go to find the Great Mage Sino. Within the Forbidden Citadel they find a seemingly broken and evil Sino, but this was only one half of him, the other half being Artepheus. After both halves reunite Sino says they must find the Arcanum, the most powerful magic artifact, to try and stop this. Once they find the Arcanum Sino tries to stop the destruction to find out even it can not stop the world being destroyed. The world then breaks apart, but Sino uses his magic to save San Lorenzo. With San Lorenzo floating in space Sino devises a plan to send Puss back in time to stop this from ever happening by never going to San Lorenzo in the first place. Puss agrees on one condition: that he can keep his memories of his journeys and of San Lorenzo, because if he never went to San Lorenzo they these events never happened. Sino agrees and sends Puss back. Dulcinea, before fading away to the new timeline asks Sino to send her back too with her memories so she can be with Puss, he agrees. At the end of the finale, Puss and Dulcinea ride off into the sunset together, leaving San Lorenzo and their friends behind.
Trivia[]
- Actors who had worked with Doug Langdale return to play new characters. The Weekenders' Grey Griffin voices Vina among others, Dave the Barbarian's Paul Rugg portrays Artephius, and El Tigre's Eric Bauza for the first time plays Puss in Boots himself.
- Alumni from the Shrek franchise portray characters in the series.
- Jim Cummings, Jane Lynch, and Frank Welker played new characters and didn't reprise previous roles.
- In the finale it appears there are two Dulcineas, one that Sino sent back with Puss, and another that entered San Lorenzo after meeting Puss in the Thieves' Market.
- One of Doug Langdale's creative partners, Jorge R. Gutierrez, was the executive consultant for the first half of the series.
- Due to the events of the finale, much of the story was undone and it is unknown what actually happens in the new timeline.
- To date, this is the only major TV series having any relation to the Shrek series.
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