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A recently widowed workaholic clumsily navigates life with his kids, guided by his late wife's online tips. Can he ace this crash course in parenthood?

Catalog (2025) is an Egyptian Arabic-language family dramedy miniseries created by Ayman Wattar and released on Netflix. Across eight episodes of roughly fifty-three minutes each, it follows Youssef (Mohamed Farag), a workaholic who has just been widowed and is suddenly responsible for his children with no idea how to manage them. His late wife's online tips become his unlikely roadmap, and each episode is built around a clumsy domestic attempt at parenting that tests his patience, his career, and his sense of himself. Reham Abdelghafour plays Amina, and the supporting cast includes Aly El-Bialy, Retal Abdelaziz, Tara Emad, Khaled Kamal, Ahmed Essam, Sedky Sakhr, Donia Sami and Samah Anwar, who orbit the household and its daily chaos. The tone is warm and wry, with comedy grounded in ordinary errands and school runs, while grief sits quietly beneath the jokes. Set in contemporary Cairo, it treats family life with an intimate, human scale. Fans of This Is Us, Parenthood and Speechless will find resonance in its blend of humor and loss, and the self-contained single season makes it an easy, affecting watch.

• This Is Usshared family comedy-drama tone about a parent navigating child-rearing after loss
• Parenthoodshared warm domestic dramedy about a father learning to parent with humor and heart
• Speechlessshared single father premise with light comedic touch and emotional grief

Created by

Ayman Wattar

Release Date

2025-07-17

Episode runtime

53 min

Rating

7.6 / 10 (11)

What is catalog about?

A workaholic widower fumbles through single fatherhood with his children, relying on his late wife's online tips.

What is catalog like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of catalog as measured, its intensity as mild and its storytelling as easy to follow.

Is catalog violent?

No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in catalog.

Which shows are like catalog?

Shows with a similar feel include This Is Us, Parenthood, and Speechless.

How long is catalog?

catalog: 1 season, 8 episodes.

Is catalog still running?

No, catalog has ended.

Where can I watch catalog?

In United States, catalog streams on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads.