Love , Death & Robots Review

Wow it's been along time since I did a full series review but my god what a series to return with this is a series that i've been so looking forward to seeing and it doesn't disappoint. This is a series that I can very easily see alot of animation fans talking about heck i'm shocked that alot of them haven't already started talking about this show it's that good and it's one of the few Netflix shows that I want to get a second season so here is my review of Love , Death & Robots.

Now I would normally tell you what the plot of the show is and give you my thoughts on it but like Batman: Gotham Knight this is an anthology show. Each of the shorts has a different story with nothing that connects them so you can really watch any episode and get an idea of themes of each short. I will admit that the pacing for each episode can feel off since sometimes it goes by way to fast but sometimes it goes by far to slowly.

Now this is a first for any of my reviews because I can't list any of the actors that appear in this show and the reason why is because there's not a set cast list available anywhere. Also not helping as to why I can't list any of the actors is because they change the cast list literally every single episode so it would be impossible for me to say who's in the show and who isn't so I apologise for not mentioning who's in the show.

Just because I can't name who's in the show doesn't mean that I can't talk about the acting that's in it. That for me is a very mixed bag since in one episode you'll get pretty acting but then in the very next episode the acting might suck so it's really hard for me to fully judge the acting since it's such a mixed bag and in all honesty that's fine with me because that's the same for alot of TV shows be they on Netflix or not.

The animation for this show was handled around by fifteen different companies with perhaps the most note worthy name being that of Sony Pictures Imageworks. As well as alot of different companies working on each short the animation also came in from all over the world so while you will see companies that are based in America working on this show you'll also see companies from for example the UK and Spain.

I have to say that the overall quality of the animation is shockingly good i'm not even kidding and these guys aren't working with a feature film budget either there working with a small budget and most likely a small crew. So if there able to pull of this level of animation with little to no budget and a small crew then imagine what they could do with the budget of a feature film and the fact that there using animation companies from all over the world is great because it gives them a chance to shine and that can only be a good thing for the animation industry.

Now i'm not going to lie and say all of them are animated because there not but they all include animation of some kind and that helps the show stand out even more in my opinion. Netflix to me is one of those companies which is creator driven and by that I mean they allow the people who are making stuff for them to really do what ever the hell they want and that makes them the perfect place for this kind of show because it's something that so of the wall that it's actually on another wall.

I cannot give this show enough praise yes there is the odd one or two bad episode but that's something that your going to get with any show anyway. I honestly feel that the only note that producers David Fincher and Tim Miller gave the people creating the shorts is that there short has to have something to do with either love , death or robots or possibly all three because that's the thing that really connects all of the shorts it's those themes.

I have to say that if you have little kids and you think that this might be a show that they'll enjoy don't show it to them. This is very mature show and when I say very mature I freaking mean it there's blood , gore , sex and nudity and that's just in the first episode and trust me it gets alot more strange and alot more adult from there so this will have to be one animated show that they'll have to go without seeing.

Now i've seen sites like IMDB throw around that some of the shorts could be considered horror in my opinion the whole thing should be considered horror. Not because of the fact that there's alot of blood and gore in alot of the episodes but because of it's ideas and themes which to me make the series far more scary then blood and gore ever could even tho one of the common ideas thrown around is that mankind is doomed to kill itself it's still a scary idea.

I have to say not all of the episodes in this show fall under horror in fact all of the eighteen shorts made fall under a wide range of sub-genres ranging from horror to fantasy to comedy so there's really something for everyone here. The best episodes tho for me personally are the ones that have a great twist ending that you don't see coming for example episodes one and three have a freaking great pairs twists which have to be seen to be believed.

I can't believe i've gotten this far into the review and not really gave you that much information about the episodes themselves. There are eighteen episodes in total and each episode will last no longer then twenty minuets but they really range in length with some episodes lasting seventeen minuets and others lasting around seven minuets. So you you could honestly watch the whole series and in a few hours and still have time to write a blog post about the show.

Overall go and watch this show right now like stop whatever it is your doing and go and watch it because trust me you will not regret it. It's not a perfect show as i've explained but in my opinion it's damn freaking close so it gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me.