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In 2019, Dead Pool And Terminator: dark fate Director Tim Miller started Love, death and robotAn animated Netflix Anthology series that, together with others, serves as a shop window for Miller's own Blur Studio. For each of its three seasons, the series has won a PrimetimeMMEMY, which has a versatile mix of six to 20-minute shorts that span horror, science fiction and imagination.

Miller used the same formula for Prime Video's Secrecywhere each of the shorts is based on a different video game. But that didn't prevent him from returning Love, death and robot For a new 10 episode season: the longest series so far, but also the weakest.

An episode of Love, death and robot Can be successful due to a clever idea or a charming humor. John Scalzi has become a popular author of the series who went wrong, and he delivers two episodes for volume 4 with different results. But too much of this season runs with vibes with episodes with cool graphics, but not much action. Others push the concept too far and let all genre or even animations. The good thing about an anthology format is that an individual episode, if it is not great, is quickly over and you can then pass to the next. Unfortunately there are pieces from Volume 4 with Dud to Dud.

Love, death and robot It is best when it uses a close short story to provide a strange and often disturbing story. The highlights include Peter F. Hamilton's Brutal Spin at Pokémon battles “Sonnies Edge” or Neal Azers Horror in Sea Tale “Bad Travelling”, which was masterfully staged by David Fincher and showed an icy performance by Troy Baker. Fortunately, there is an episode in Volume 4 that still fits this form.

Written by Jt Petty based on a short story by John McNichol, “How Zeke Got Religion”, merged aspects of Master of air And Hellboy. Like the excellent episode of the last season “In Vaulted Halls Engombed”, it begins as a war history and becomes pure horror.

In this case, the crew of the B-17 Flying Festress Liberty Belle is nervous that they were treated with chocolate and a John Wayne film because “When Brass is nice to them, they are fucked nearby.” The best crew that the allies have is sent to a solo mission to bomb a church in France at the behest of a mysterious new commander.

The episode shows how they normally work as a team, navigate the flick, uptight weapons and a malignant dog that would be the worst part of most missions. But the church is the place of a bloody Nazi ritual to call a fallen archangel that is pursuing its plane, which leads to an abrupt genre shift and a gore -distant struggle that forces Jaded Zeke to rethink what he knows about the world.

Director Diego Porral, who served as the main animator for the hyper-fertile episode “Kill Team Kill” of the last season Govern And PantheonDo a phenomenal job that very much differentiates between the fallen hornemon and bat-wing demon. It is more like a biblically precise angel, a cherubic face on a body with far too many eyes that pull soldiers apart with baby hands. If it literally spits balls of newly shaped screaming mouth, the crew notes that faith is its best weapon.

When you see an episode of Love, death and robot Volume 4, do it “How Zeke got religion”. Then contact this ranking of the remaining entries of the season.

This is just a Red Hot Chili Peppers music, which was shot by David Fincher with marionettes for the band and the crowd. There is no love, death or robot, which makes it feel like a pretty senseless entry in the series.

9. “The screaming of the tyrannosaurs“”

Mrbeast plays the great master-like moderator of the spectacle with triceratops, a tyrannosaurs, naked gladiators and far too much voice-over. This episode is extremely predictable and even for something that is based on how dinosaur fights are cool.

The series returns to Bruce Sterling Universum in the episode of the third season “Swarm” for a much less convincing story. “Swarming” was a deeply disturbing story about the human greed and the nature of the sensations, and this is a boring revenge story with a strange, cute, extraterrestrial pet. The way in which Blur Studio float people in space is still beautiful.

Rhys Darby (What we do in the shadePresent Our flag means death) brings his more characteristic neurosis to the play of a pastor who apparently brought a beach delphin back to life and attracted the attention of a group of water countries. Unfortunately, the story doesn't have much in history and it is a very strange decision to have a live action shortening in the mix.

6. “The other big thing“”

The weaker of the two Scalzi stories of this season contains a fluffy cat called Sanchez (Chris Parnell), who sees his chance of world domination when his negligent, lazy owners bring home a robot expressed by John Oliver. Agbos grotesque animation of people makes it feel as if they really come, even though the story is very simple and the last joke falls flat.

Robert Valley, who staged the Emmy Prize winner episode “Ice”, returns to Love, death and robot For a beautifully animated story with John Boyega as the leader of a gang of many warfare in the UK post -apocalyptic Great Britain. It is such a strange rich world full of clairvoyant and alien giants that I wanted it to be developed a little more beyond the breathtaking action sequences.

4. “Close encounters of the Mini Art“”

Last season Robert Bissi and Andy Lyon teamed up to use sped-up miniatures to tell a rapid-fire zombie apocalypse story, and they have come together again in Volume 4 to do the same for an extraterrestrial invasion. It is a very fun rush through the tropics of the genre with a fairly low opinion of people who cause a problem and repeatedly worsen it.

3. “Smart Appliances, stupid owner“”

John Scalzi and the director Patrick Osborne have come together for “three robots: exit strategies” of the last season and they are back together for a number of confession from smart electronics that use the way their owners use or neglect them. Aaron Sims Creative offers the animation in the claymation style for the anthropomorphic waffle iron, toothbrush, shower head and more of a stacked cast of comedians such as Ronny Chieng, Amy Sedaris and Kevin Hart.

2. “Because he can crawl”

The blocked tomb author Tamsyn Muir wrote this charming episode, which is based on the Siobhan Carroll-Nebel-nominated novel of the same name. Daniel Stevens (legionPresent The beautiful and the beast) plays a complete version of Satan, which tortures a poet that he believes that he can help his dark thing. Fortunately, the poet has a loyal cat that, although he is tried by the Prince of Darkness offer of delicacies, unites his surprisingly powerful cat -like friends to fight for the poet's soul.

1. “How Zeke got religion”

If you ran over the intro, go back and read about this wonderful short film.

Love, death and robot Volume 4 now stream on Netflix.