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- Zima Blue (Season 1, Episode 14) A reporter is invited to Zima Blue's island to interview the reclusive artist, who hasn't had direct contact with the press in over a century.
- Bad Travelling (Season 3, Episode 2) In "Bad Travelling" Torrin is the mate on a ship that is attacked by the thanapod, a giant crustacean. The thanapod strikes many crew members, including the captain, before fleeing below deck.
- Good Hunting (Season 1, Episode 8) In early twentieth-century China, Liang and Yan meet by coincidence. When Liang's father, a human, goes looking for Yan's mother, a Huli Jing (a shapeshifting fox-like creature), Liang and Yan argue, prompting Liang's father to capture and murder Yan's mother.
- Sonnie's Edge (Season 1, Episode 1) Sonnie and her friends are participants in an underground fighting game in which they assume the consciousness of mechanically engineered beasts in a cyberpunk future.
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- 26. When the Yoghurt Took Over
- 25. Sucker of Souls
- 24. Ice Age
- 23. Automated Customer Service
- 22. Alternate Histories
- 21. The Dump
- 20. Fish Night
- 19. Ice
- 18. Sonnie’s Edge
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By Axel Metz
published 22 May 2021
Every episode of Netflix's sci-fi anthology, ranked
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The new season of the excellent Love, Death and Robots anthology series has arrived on Netflix, and pretty much picks up where the robot-malfunctioning, alien-shooting debut collection left off.
And so we begin with the When the Yoghurt Took Over, an absurdist, if entirely inoffensive, tale of a society dictated by sentient yoghurt. It’s suitably bizarre, but also only four minutes long – not one that stays long in the memory, if we’re honest.
Sucker of Souls throws up the question of what makes good animation. It’s pretty to look at, for sure, but doesn’t quite fit the motion-heavy sequences that fill this story of a giant Dracula-inspired monster hiding in a tunnel system. A later episode in the show, Blindspot, hits this balance more effectively.
In a rare live-action outing for the series, Ice Age sees a young couple move into a home not knowing of the miniature civilization that resides inside their fridge. Topher Grace and Mary Elizabeth Winstead are a funny duo, at least, but it’s not the most original of Love, Death and Robots’ stories.
Season 2’s opener seems like a sequence plucked straight from the script of Despicable Me or Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs – which is a compliment. The problem is, Automated Customer Service doesn’t do anything we haven’t seen before, and its premise wears thin as soon as you realize where its killer-vacuum-robot plot is headed.
It feels a little harsh placing Alternate Histories so far down on this list, since it deserves credit for its unique 2010-era-internet-game animation style – but it just doesn’t make much sense. It follows the alternative ways Adolf Hitler might’ve died, including one scenario where he suffocates after being encased in a giant jelly… Enough said, ...
Save for its slightly unexpected ending, The Dump is a pretty bland affair. A giant garbage monster emerges from – you guessed it – a giant garbage dump, and proceeds to exist alongside an old-timer who lives among the trash. The animation is gorgeous, but that doesn’t hold much value in a series where every episode is adorned with pretty computer ...
Fish Night packs a glorious final few minutes, but is let down by committing two thirds of its run-time to an uninspired conversation between a pair of travelers stranded in the desert. It doesn’t half look like a Borderlands game, though – and the Great White Shark reveal is awesome.
Ice is probably the most anime-like of any episode in either season, and benefits from this stylistic approach. It does a great job of cultivating its dystopian, ice-ridden environment, and is a nice breather from the ultra-realistic animation of several other stories in the series. That said, it’s a little unsure of what it wants to say – genetic ...
Sonnie’s Edge is a tricky one. Its monster-battling premise is thrilling to behold, and the use of bright lights and neon colors makes for hypnotic viewing, but the episode is let down by a misguided use of sexual assault as a plot device – which is problematic, to say the least. Ultimately, placing it here feels like a solid compromise.
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- The Witness. Stylish, quick, smartly written, and deftly executed, "The Witness" is the short that most encapsulates the various principles of Love, Death & Robots.
- Beyond The Aquila Drift. The darkest Love, Death & Robots episode on an existential level, "Beyond The Aquila Drift" has a Star Trek-like premise delivered in a very non-Star Trek manor.
- When the Yogurt Took Over. Douglas Adams worship isn't the easiest thing to do, and the Love, Death & Robots episode "When the Yogurt Took Over" nails it.
- Three Robots. One day, robots that we've built will be the last things functioning as we find some way to erase human life from the planet, or at least that's what "Three Robots" puts forward.
- Night Of The Mini Dead (Volume 3, Episode 4) Viewers get a bird's eye view of the collapse of civilization via a zombie apocalypse in the humorous episode "Night of the Mini Dead."
- All Through The House (Volume 2, Episode 6) In "All Through the House," two kids sneak out of bet in the hopes of catching Santa Claus on Christmas Eve, but they're shocked to find a horrific sack-like creature delivering their presents, instead.
- Sonnie's Edge (Volume 1, Episode 1) It makes sense that the premiere remains one of the best Love, Death and Robots episodes. The number of twists and turns that are present in "Sonnie's Edge" is enough to make anyone's head spin.
- Shape-Shifters (Volume 1, Episode 10) Werewolves are a fairly played-out fantasy horror trope, but one of the best Love, Death and Robots episodes revitalizes the concept by imagining them as combatants in war-torn Afghanistan.
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- "Bad Travelling" (Season 3, Episode 2) IMDb score: 8.7/10. This was the first episode of the show directed by David Fincher himself, and the payoff was massively positive.
- "Beyond the Aquila Rift" (Season 1, Episode 7) IMDb score: 8.5/10. One of the genres which Love, Death & Robots visits most often is sci-fi, and fans seem to believe that "Beyond the Aquila Rift" is the best of the Netflix show's sci-fi stories.
- "Zima Blue" (Season 1, Episode 14) IMDb score: 8.3/10. Perhaps the most philosophical and mature episode of Love, Death & Robots, "Zima Blue" has the renowned titular artist tell a journalist about his mysterious past and rise to fame before revealing his last piece.
- "Sonnie's Edge" (Season 1, Episode 1) IMDb score: 8.2/10. If "Three Robots" helps set the tone of the show, "Sonnie's Edge" helps show how great of an episode viewers can expect from that point onward.
May 21, 2022 · With that in mind, I've put together a definitive ranking of every episode of Love, Death + Robots, including the spoiler-free rankings of select segments of Volume III, premiering...
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1. Love, Death & Robots. Episode: Bad Travelling. (2022) 2019– 23mTV-MA. 8.7 (16K) Rate. TV Episode. Release the Thanapod! A ship's crew member sailing an alien ocean strikes a deal with a ravenous monster of the deep. Director Franck Balson Jerome Denjean Jennifer Yuh Nelson Stars Troy Baker Kevin Jackson Fred Tatasciore. 2. Love, Death & Robots.
