Netflix’s Escape The Undertaker Is Like A New Day / Taker Cinematic Match

The Netflix interactive short Escape the entrepreneur debuted on the streaming service today (October 5). As fans of The New Day, The Dead Man, and pro wrestling silliness, we here at Cageside Seats have been looking forward to this Halloween special. Was it a trick or a treat?

I hit it this morning, because I’m an adult lucky enough to get paid to do things like that. While I haven’t played through all of the options, I’ve clicked my path enough to give you some thoughts.

Mostly I recommend you to watch / play Escape the entrepreneur with a kid who can handle a bit of goosebumps. But in the “Choose Your Own Adventure” spirit of the thing, I’ll also provide some alternatives. It will also be more enjoyable with a group of WWE-loving friends who you can riffle with, and / or around 30-45 minutes after you’ve ingested an edible.

A high-level synopsis, spoiler-free: we start in what I can only describe as Taker’s Alchemy Garage.

He uses mystical energy to forge certain things that will come into play later in the story, and to tell us the story of his precious urn. This is the urn that Kofi Kingston, Big E, and Xavier Woods came to ask the Phenom for … in his spooky mansion. Without invitation. The night. To Woods’ credit, he suggests they return when the sun is out.

Because he is bored and his urn needs pure souls, Taker lets New Day enter his spooky mansion. But if they want to combine their power of positivity with the power of the ballot box, they’ll have to work for it. There are three levels of the house to explore. Shortly after you start this E will start sucking his soul out of his body (at one point he is vomiting fluorescent purple from this slow soul sucking process) – so time is running out.

There are about a dozen choices you can make en route to the end of Escape the entrepreneur, and you can always undo your last selection if it leads you to an untimely end. I only really did it once, because I couldn’t resist the idea of ​​being a jerk and picking “I’m too scared” for the first one. It rewards you with a smart credit gag before you jump back into the story anyway.

Eventually, you’ll find yourself in the basement, where the Dead Man is doing light forging. It’s time for the showdown, and Take is going to screw you up some Sith stuff …

… but that home stretch is also where we see some fights that wouldn’t have looked out of place if Undertaker’s Boneyard Match with AJ Styles to WrestlingMania 36.

It’s just a way that Escape the entrepreneur it’s as much professional wrestling as it is Goose bumps. Michael Cole and Pat McAfee feature Taker and New Day in video packages shortly after they appear on screen. There are Easter eggs for the legendary career of the Phenom, including an old gadget that his brother Kayfabe used to work on. And the story is true to the characters – especially the princes of positivity. Here’s a hint: choosing friendship will never make you go wrong.

The interactive component is not great. The cuts after you make a choice might be smoother, but the antics of E, Kof & Woods are entertaining enough to get you to see what other nonsense they might do on the branches you don’t get down on the first pass. It took me about 30 minutes to go through it once, and based on the running Netflix views, Escape the entrepreneur still has about 20 minutes of footage to explore if you wish.

So go ahead. Knock on the dead man’s door and feel the power. There are worse ways to kill half an hour. You could watch Raw (I’m kidding, I’m kidding).

To verify Escape the entrepreneur on Netflix here.