Settling down with something to watch on Netflix is becoming as tough as the career choices us millennials get. Too many things to choose from; and that makes us too skeptic of our decisions. We stubbornly demand to get a 100 percent of what we spend, be that our time or money. And hence the hours of surveying around Love, Death & Robots created by Tim Miller is a sci-fi animation consisting of 18 different stories of lives unknown to us with bits and pieces of what we perceive the future to look like.
To put it simply, if the science fiction series Black Mirror wildly known for the mind boggling stories had a wild yet beautiful spinoff, Love, Death & Robots would be it. Each episode ranges from 18-20 minutes, rich with such intricate animation details that even your noob self will admire the work.
The full season has this stressing combination of high-lows in the guise of stories of worlds that may seem familiar but are unfathomable to our lifeless eyes. I’m talking big, my friend. Self-dependent cats taking over earth once they learned to open tuna fish cans. Animated sex-bots are nothing new to us but what of animated human beings turned into sex-bots? What if werewolves were trained to be in war alongside humans, hand-in-hand? What if you witness a sight of an ocean that existed thousands of years ago, while being stranded on a deserted island? These storylines start at the point where the wildest sphere of our imagination ends. And lead us to people and places with stories mind-boggling enough to leave us wanting for more.
The eerie similarity of the introduction theme of both Black Mirror and Love, Death & Robots added to the obviously parallel flow of storyline is what hit me first about this Netflix original. While some of the stories portray creative juices so rich you’d want to second guess the world around you, some are simply mediocre. My personal favorites are “When the Yogurt Took Over” and “Zima Blue”.
Love, Death & Robots is something you must catchup on this summer. Hold your heart and take a leap of faith towards this series. The journey through 18 amazing worlds and all these remarkable stories will give you a inimitable image of the future, unless of course we all die when a meteor hits earth or due to global warming. We spend too much time thinking about what to choose that we forget to enjoy what we choose. Long gone are the days of “Living in the Moment”, leaving too anxious and desperate for “The Moment”. Live Every Moment: high or low, they’re yours, my friend.
