I enjoyed Get Out, the introduction of Jordan Peele as a director. While it was a confident debut, it was also somewhat derivative. Us is another matter entirely. It possesses the same confidence of Peele’s debut, but moves with an elan bordering on bravado because let’s be clear, Us is more complex and that it […]
I’ve read that Netflix alters the episode order of Love, Death + Robots based upon the viewing habits of the particular subscriber. Annnnd…who cares? All Netflix likely knows about me is what I actually watch so if they’re tailoring the order of episodes due to what they perceive as my preferences, who cares (especially when […]
Ice Age is a pretty good episode, though I think I’ve seen it somewhere before. It’s well done, but the conceit is hardly an original one. It’s also the first, and likely the only, episode of the series that uses primarily live action and it’s a welcome change.
It’s not easy to make anything revolving around Hitler funny. That’s likely because Hitler is a murderous genocidal psychopath. It’s also why you either know what you’re doing, or you just leave it alone. And I wish the directors of Alternate Histories had done just that because it’s only intermittently interesting/funny (and much of that […]
Blindspot is a fun, engaging episode of Love, Death + Robots. It’s not particularly deep but then again not every episode needs to be (I would go out of my gourd if every episode were a Zima Blue).
When I first watched Zema Blue, the 14th episode of Love, Death + Robots, I assumed that it was pretty dull story-wise. Then I watched it a second time and realized how wrong I was and the episode is a pretty fascinating commentary on what it means be human. It’s pretty subtle, but it’s there.
Helping Hand is a bit of a joke, and I mean that in the best possible way. It’s a study in what can go wrong in a given situation, and when things go wrong, they GO WRONG. It’s also a story about survival, and about one person will do to stay alive under remarkable odds.
Not a terrible episode, but a very ‘Meh’ one–which is in it’s way worse because at least terrible had the potential to be pretty horrific, as these scenes from The Stuff (1985) illustrate . When The Yogurt Took Over feels more like visual wallpaper: It’s interesting to look at but when all is said and […]
Sucker of Souls, the fifth episode of Love, Death + Robots, is a lot of fun. Traditional drawn animation, as opposed to CGI, it’s pretty refreshing to see. And the thing is, I’m not a fan of this particular style of animation, though seeing it presented among, so-far, an entirely CGI field makes it pretty […]
Netflix recently launched a new anthology series, Love, Death + Robots, that revolves around–if the first episode is any indication–a dystopian world. In the premiere episode, Sonnie’s Edge, we meet Sonnie, who’s the best beast fighter around. Someone offers her hundreds of thousands of dollars to lose a match, which she refuses. But when you […]
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