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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Nov 4, 2022 12:31 am
Posted: May 19, 2021 12:00 am
All eight new installments of Love, Death, and Robots are available on Netflix.
David Fincher and Deadpool director Tim Miller's Love, Death, and Robots is back with a new batch of animated shorts that delve into the diabolical dystopias, cosmic combat, and - er - a cenobite Santa Claus? And while we may not be getting as many episodes this time around, the series continues to be a fun and engaging cabinet of curiosities.
Season 2 of Love, Death, and Robots only offers up eight episodes, which may feel slight compared to the first season's eighteen installments, but there's still a lot to mine here, and having fewer episodes actually cuts down on the overall bloat that the debut season dished out.
Automated Customer Service
Ice
Pop Squad
Snow in the Desert
The Tall Grass
All Through the House
Two of this year's entries involve the fear of a robot uprising: One played for satire and the other as a claustrophobic thriller reminiscent of 1990's Hardware. "Automated Customer Service," based on a story by John Scalzi, drops us in an automaton-run Palm Springs-type town where the elder residents seem to enjoy a Buy n Large-adjacent existence... until a robot vacuum cleaner turns on its owner. On the more scarred side of the evil robot coin, "Life Hutch" is a short-fused survivor story, based on a Harlan Ellison tale. It stars Michael B. Jordan as a marooned space marine who must duke it out with a mad maintenance droid. Neither of these episodes are exactly fresh concepts, but one of Love, Death and Robots’ strengths resides in a freedom that nurtures an ability to show us similar stories with different tones, textures, and animation.
"Automated Customer Service" is also a good episode to watch first, since kicking things off with a tongue-in-cheek robot apocalypse loosens one's psyche enough to absorb heavier fare later on. For instance, there’s the gruesome "Pop Squad," from Season 2’s supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson, which features Nolan North as a future cop who hunts down and kills illegal offspring, and "Snow in the Desert," which is a carnage-filled caper that fills the Space Western act on the bill. Those two both deal with humanity's cold and cruel quest for immortality: "Pop Squad" plays this out more like 2013's Elysium, or even Netflix's own Altered Carbon, with the elite enjoying a life in the sky and the opportunity to live forever but experiencing the unrewarding emptiness of being a god. "Snow in the Desert" is the other side of that, with a bullets and bounties-based story that treats immortality as a plague of aloneness. That theme is a solid go-to for sci-fi, and breaking it up into gorgeous nibbles allows us to cut right to the core.
If you’re looking for more diverse animation 'The Tall Grass' unfolds like a moving painting
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Next up, Robert Valley's "Ice," tells a simple but warm sibling tale amidst a swirl of shadows and neon blues. "The Tall Grass" and "All Through the House" dabble in ghoulish ghastlies as humble horror offerings. Though “Ice” and “The Tall Grass” are visually unique compared to the other chapters, and “All Through the House” is a pretty good gag, these three are the weakest of the lot. While not entirely empty, they just don’t quite measure up to the thoughtfulness of the rest.
If you take these in the suggested order, the final chapter is an adaptation of a J.G. Ballard novella called "The Drowned Giant." While "Life Hutch" is a mostly dialogue-free escape room, "The Drowned Giant," from Tim Miller, is narrated all the way through, running the gamut of existential questions and observations as a small town discovers a dead and naked giant man on their shore. It's excellent. An outlier of an endcap -- made to feel even more so, by the shorter episode count -- "The Drowned Giant" is a poetic triumph, bubbling up chaotic feelings through calm repose. It’s the best of the batch, with “Pop Squad,” “Life Hutch,” and “Snow in the Desert” following up. If you’re looking for more diverse animation “The Tall Grass” unfolds like a moving painting while “Ice” has a flatter, more traditional 2D look, though those two episodes won’t sit with you like the melancholy of the others.
Love, Death and Robots Volume 2 needs more than eight episodes, even though its first season had too many. A shorter catalog is probably best here since this year’s batch of stories features some repeating themes. That being said, the series continues to be an enjoyable thought-provoking buffet of animated wonders and wickedness.
Apr 19, 2021 · Season 2 of Love, Death & Robots arrives on Netflix on May 14. Season 3 is on the way for 2022.
- Petrana Radulovic
Apr 29, 2021 · Love, Death and Robots season 2 premieres May 14 on Netflix. With only eight episodes, volume 2 is about half the length of volume 1. Most of the shorts are on the longer side, spanning 10 or 15 minutes, although there are two shorter stories ranging 6-8 minutes.
Love, Death & Robots (stylized in all-caps with a plus symbol in place of the ampersand; represented in emoji form as ️ 🤖) is an adult animated anthology television series created by Tim Miller and streaming on Netflix. [1]
Apr 19, 2021 · The NFSW Netflix anthology series Love, Death and Robots is back for a second season, with the streamer revealing a new trailer and release date. The Emmy-winning anthology’s second...
May 8, 2021 · When is Love, Death + Robots season 2 released? Love, Death + Robots season 2 will launch on Netflix on May 14th, 2021, at 8am. Season one launched in March, 2019.
