I watched Love, Death and Robots on Netflix, a sci-fi anthology show of animated shorts done in the spirit of Heavy Metal with a lot of graphic violence, sex, and cursing. It was a mixed bag to watch, as there were 18 shorts with more misses than hits. My favorite shorts were Zima Blue (about a reclusive artist who turns himself into a cyborg and is obsessed with a particular shade of blue in his art, for sentimental and beautiful reasons); Three Robots (three robots examine a post-apocalyptic Earth in which humans are all extinct and do an anthropological study on them, with funny hypothesis on the objects left behind); Suits (farmers in mecha suits fighting giant alien bugs that surprisingly got me invested in the emotional stakes of the characters very quickly and made me care about them); Good Hunting (a short story by Ken Liu that combines a Chinese folk tale with early 1900s steampunk elements that was touching and striking); and Alternate Histories (a hilarious short about a virtual reality game that shows outcomes of alternate histories, and depicts Hitler dying in 1908 in ridiculous ways, like being trampled by a horse-drawn carriage to being trapped in a gelatinous cube, and the ways that history would be radically changed afterwards).
The other shorts were mostly decent, with some bad or boring ones, but I highly enjoyed watching this series to see a variety of animation and sci-fi, all based on short stories.
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