I Never Knew I Needed It: ‘Love, Death + Robots’ Review

Season: 1 / Episodes: 1-18 / Netflix And on this day, Bast (by way of Netflix) sent to us some of the best damn CGI this side of a Square Enix trailer! I give you: Love, Death + Robots!!! They Make This Look Good Let’s start on the surface. The visuals are bananas! LD+R goes hard, y’all. Each entry has a completely different aesthetic which speaks to its individual narrative. They look so good they’re what I imagine real life in 4K looks like. In the “Secret War” episode, I was able to point out at least three different types of stubble! Stubble!?!? The only way I can sum up how dope the anthology looks is to compare it to the dopest digital visuals I’ve seen to date: the combined Star Wars: The Old Republic trailers. Love, Death + Robots is leaps and bounds ahead of those visuals while drawing you in without forty-plus years of continuity. Point is, there has not been a better-looking collection of CGI animation. Ever. @ me if you need to (and at your own risk).

Love, Death + Robots is a haunting and beautiful anthology of macabre sci-fi fantasies. The whole LD+R anthology plays out like lining up the juiciest plot twists of Black Mirror single file and marching them into the deepest recesses of your mind. It follows in the wake of some other legendary animated anthologies like The Animatrix, Halo: Legends, and Gotham Knight. Each of those had different directors, writers, and production houses, they shared the same licensed property. They occupied the same world, and were …