Love, death and robot Volume 4 Review: keep a good thing going

Netflix from in the best case Love, death and robot Create the same feeling as a collection of science fiction short stories. You don't always know what to expect and not everything is brilliant, but you are guaranteed to have something interesting. This was particularly true for volume 3 of the animated anthology, which offered nine shorts, all of which were excellent. The latest gang does not reach the same heights, nor does it have a unique outstanding episode like “The Pulse of the Machine”, but it is still a strong offer.

What volume 4 is good – and it is something that is a strength of LDR Overall – offers a variety of tones and styles. There are still dark, violent and hyperreal episodes that are so closely connected LDRLike “Spider Rose”, a follow-up for “Swarming” last season, which tells a cyberpunk story about a woman who is consumed with revenge, which she finds with the help of a very strange creature. There is also “the screaming of the tyrannosaurs”, in which trained warriors struggle in front of rich dignitaries and royal areas until they drove to dinosaurs. The Mrbeast's death races are organized in a strangely inspired casting.

The show continues to press over classic, darker science fiction. For example, there is a lot of comedy here. An episode is a confessional for intelligent devices such as connected toothbrushes and toilets that complain about how terrible it is to serve people. Another follows a cat that intends world domination who finds the perfect accomplice when its owners bring a robot assistant home. And if you enjoyed the “Night of the Mini Coter” last season, there is a sequel that transforms an extraterrestrial invasion in a cute diorama of death and destruction.

And while the show is still strongly displaced compared to the CG animation, there are also a few great 2D episodes. “How Zeke get religion” is pure Heavy metal And is a story about a group of soldiers of the Second World War who end up fighting a demonic monstrosity that is called by the Nazis. It is full of plenty of blood and blood and a really terrible monster that are all hands, mouths and screams. This is accompanied by “400 Boys”, a wild and kinetic post-apocalyptic action story about a world full of war-like gangs that merging to combat a group of highly towering, naked babies, which are simply called “boys”.

Volume 4 also needs a few funny risks. “Golgotha” is the first complete live action short films of the show, a simple story about a priest, an extraterrestrial invasion and a risen dolphin that could be the Messiah. Like the best of LDRThe episode is satisfactory, but it also lets it see and learn much more about its world. Not all episodes are quite as successful. “Because He Can Creep” is a fine, inappropriate story of a cat that fights against Satan LDR as a whole).

But even the worst episodes of volume 4 are still interesting, and that is the promise of Love, death and robotReally. Streaming services have contributed to initiating a new wave of science fiction anthologies that ranged from prophetic and effective to completely unnecessary. LDR Could be the most constant modern example of the form. It's funny, violent and surprising – and almost never boring.

_{Volume 4 of Love, death and robot Streaming now on Netflix.}