On the more scarred side of the evil robot coin, "Life Hutch" is a short-fused survivor story, based on a Harlan Ellison tale. until a robot vacuum cleaner turns on its owner. "Automated Customer Service," based on a story by John Scalzi, drops us in an automaton-run Palm Springs-type town where the elder residents seem to enjoy a Buy n Large-adjacent existence. Two of this year's entries involve the fear of a robot uprising: One played for satire and the other as a claustrophobic thriller reminiscent of 1990's Hardware.
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With stories emerging from Miller's own LA-based Blur Studio (Far Cry 5, Shadow of the Tomb Raider), Scotland's Axis Studios, France's Unit Image (God of War, Beyond Good and Evil 2), and the addition of England's Blink Industries and Passion Animation Studios, the series once again delivers a fierce fanning of animation that ranges from 2D to 3D to photo-real CGI. It's a viable variety act capable of both flashing its fangs and showing its belly, coming to us from an international array of animation and visual effects studios. Once again it carries the offbeat sci-fi anthology torch that was lit by the likes of Liquid Television in the '90s and 1981's Heavy Metal. This round of episodes - featuring morsels of mayhem, roughly 12 to 18 minutes each, that tackle monsters, malfunctioning robots, dastardly bounty hunters, and a dead giant's massive member.
Season 2 of Love, Death, and Robots only offers up eight episodes, which may feel slight compared to the first season's eighteen installments, but there's still a lot to mine here, and having fewer episodes actually cuts down on the overall bloat that the debut season dished out. David Fincher and Deadpool director Tim Miller's Love, Death, and Robots is back with a new batch of animated shorts that delve into the diabolical dystopias, cosmic combat, and - er - a cenobite Santa Claus? And while we may not be getting as many episodes this time around, the series continues to be a fun and engaging cabinet of curiosities.
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