LOVE, DEATH & ROBOTS

  • 28 Sep - 04 Oct, 2019
  • Mag The Weekly
  • TV TIME


Taken as a whole, Netflix’s experimental animated series Love, Death & Robots is a pretty mixed bag. This animated anthology has enough creative death to satisfy cyberpunk aficionados who love their robots to have some heavy metal influence, but the series' lofty ambitions are often undercut by a preoccupation with gore and titillation. It is a series of standalone episodes that each use animation and science fiction elements. Subjects range from a group of farmers trying to prevent an alien invasion to sentient yogurt that takes over the world. For every episode with a striking or exciting style of animation, there’s an episode with the paint-by-numbers aesthetic of a mediocre PlayStation 4 game. It has a genuinely shocking twist in each episode for which there’s an episode with an ending you’ve predicted from the beginning. For every original idea, there’s an idea you’ve seen dozens of times before. And, in general there is way too much violence in this series. Terrifying creatures, wicked surprises and dark comedy converge in this NSFW anthology of animated stories presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher. But here’s the good news: Because Love, Death & Robots is an anthology series; you don’t actually need to watch all the episodes. In fact, you can probably skip a bunch of them and have a much better experience with the show as a whole.

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