(We reviewed every episode, you can find all the reviews below the full review)
If you’re a video game fan or a fan of cinematic trailers then you’ll most likely have heard of Blur Studio. Blur Studio make the awesome cinematic trailers for just about every game that has an awesome cinematic trailer. The main man behind the studio is Tim Miller, who owns the studio, he went on to direct the first Deadpool film and now he has created an anthology series. An anthology series that is some of the best content on Netflix.
Love, Death & Robots is an animated anthology series made by several different animated studios and created by Tim Miller (again the first Deadpool). The series is also produced by the one and only David Fincher. If it sounds like the series is ticking all the right boxes for you then don’t be alarmed because it is true. The series consists of eighteen different short films, each with their own story, their own characters and their own universes. The joy comes from not just the episodes but not knowing what you’re about to watch next as every episode is
I’ve been excited for this series ever since it was announced as I love the work of Blur Studio. I’m also a fan of Black Mirror, probably the most popular anthology series out there. Love, Death & Robots has rivalled in my mind the position for best anthology series. I recently wrote about how Netflix is a space for creators to make what they want and this series is a prime example of why other places should let creators just create.
Now is every episode of this series absolute gold? Of course not, it would be crazy if it was but a majority of the episodes are fantastic spectacles and they are all good short films. There are episodes which are fast-paced and violent like ‘The Witness‘ (which features an animated style that looks like the cousin of Into the Spider-Verse) and ‘Sucker of Souls‘. These two do a great job of showing how violence and chases can be shown in different ways. There are slow-moving pieces like ‘Zima Blue‘ and ‘Fish Night‘, both of these have art styles that allow you to simply take in the beauty of what you’re watching.
Amongst all the feeling and action there are also three hilarious treats of ‘When the Yogurt Took Over‘, ‘Alternate Histories‘ and ‘Three Robots‘ Both, again, have a unique and different art style. It is in the series science fiction episodes where the animation technology advances with ‘Helping Hand‘ being a prime example for an animated remake of
There are almost too many episodes to discuss, that is why we reviewed them all. The animation of each is so particular that some episodes have depth and some episodes have colours jumping out at you, this is the type of content that looks spectacular on your 4K screens. Every short has spectacular voice acting, again from a lot of voice actors from cartoons and games. I can only hope that these let the voices get some well-deserved attention for their great work. Underneath the voice
The series is very much rated R and maybe that helps with letting the creators be free but would be great to get some younger viewers in to watch as well to inspire them.
If you’re looking for something to watch, something that is different and has everything then this series is the way to go. Love, Death & Robots is, I can only imagine, the type of series that an up and coming animator dreams of. Examples of fantastic work from studios that aren’t just Pixar, no offence to Pixar they’re great too. Rarely do you get to hear about the great work that these studios do but now Netflix is helping to push them into the spotlight.
It’ll be interesting to see where the series goes next, I’m confident that the series will get glowing reviews. Some of these shorts could be series for Netflix to make but hey I’ll just take a second series as quickly as possible if that is the only option. The amount of work put into each short is clearly shown, every aspect of each one seems done to perfection,
Score: 5/5
Links to our reviews for each episode:
#1 Sonnie’s Edge, #2 Three Robots, #3 The Witness, #4 Suits, #5 Sucker of Souls, #6 When the Yogurt Took Over, #7 Beyond the Aquila Rift, #8 Good Hunting, #9 The Dump, #10 Shapeshifters, #11 Helping Hand, #12 Fish Night, #13 Lucky 13, #14 Zima Blue, #15 Blindspot, #16 Ice Age, #17 Alternate Histories, #18 The Secret War