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In such a recycled Hollywood climate, the third season of "Love, Death and Robots" is a refreshing breeze

While the screens are filled with more and more fresh revivals of old products, Netflix's animated anthology series continues to show boldness, originality and creativity in a way that is hard to find in the Hollywood mainstream.

Thus, the third and new season of "Love, Death and Robots" is probably the best

Ofri Atrachi

25/05/2022

Wednesday, May 25, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

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"Love, Death And Robots" Trailer - Season 3 (Netflix)

Two years of reality in an apocalyptic future of a deadly plague have brought Netflix's animated anthology series, “Love, Death and Robots,” to become more pessimistic and gloomy than ever.

The series, which has never spared us blood and internal organs, is now exploring the limits of horror and creating a play that will not suit the soft-hearted.

In general, the third season of "Love, Death and Robots" focuses much more on death and much less on love.

In a large part of the nine new chapters, which as a rule are based on existing MDA and fantasy stories, violence manages to serve as a tool for conveying ideas, mortality and philosophical questions, but sometimes it feels trivial and unnecessary. Strange hybrids, showing amounts of blood in a way that feels pointless.

Repeat with a statement about classes.

"Three Robots", "Love, Death and Robots" Season 3 (Photo: Netflix)

But in most cases, originality and grace elevate "love, death and robots."

"Night of the Little Dead", which is faithful to its description on Netflix and presents the cutest apocalypse you will see, and even manages to produce a little perspective and show the smallness of humanity on the scale of the infinite universe.

So is "In the Depths of the Earth" (directly translated: "Buried in Concave Halls"), which gives a taste of the nightmarish mythological universe of the horror writer HF Lovecraft

. Different socio-economic classes, examining how each of them dealt with the end of the world, and uploading familiar images like billionaires flying into space (did anyone say Ethan Stevia?).

As for love, some of the episodes show passion or attraction, but the only one that made me feel the pure emotion was "the heartbeat of the machine."

The chapter, which is not about love in the romantic sense but about friendship, explores the loneliness of the person and the desire to connect with another soul.

The chapter presents these issues, in an original and surprising way, through a psychedelic drug trip on one of Saturn's moons.

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A dance of passion, greed and tragedy.

"Farmer" from "Love, Death and Robots" Season 3 (Photo: Netflix)

The most successful stories of the new season, of all kinds, are brought to us this time by two of the most prominent of the creative forces of "Love, Death and Robots" - those who not only know how to produce great violent stories, but more importantly, how to use violence as a plot tool.

Alberto Milgo, whose previous episode in the series, "The Witness" from the first season, won several Emmy Awards (and he himself even won an Oscar for a short animated film), returns with "Farmer", or originally "Khibaru" (Puerto Rican farmer).

In this story, which seals the season, a siren and a deaf knight dance a dance of passion, greed and tragedy.

The blood in "Farmer" is not random but is directly connected to the emotional themes in the episode.

For example, at the emotional climax of the story, an entire lake is painted red with blood.

The episode also uses animation in an exemplary manner, which gives men who are drawn to the siren the appearance of string puppets, and the siren itself the appearance of an enchanted dancer.

David Fincher, creator of "Love, Death and Robots" alongside Tim Miller, directs an episode of it for the first time himself (and finally fulfills his dream of directing an animation) - "Tough Journey", a seafaring crew act facing a moral dilemma.

The violence in the chapter raises philosophical questions about human nature and the common good, and manages to reflect a chilling picture of human evil and lust for power.

Also notable in the episode are the animation, which is based on image capture, and the spectacular dubbing work.

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A chilling picture of human evil.

"Tough Journey" from "Love, Death and Robots" Season 3 (Photo: Netflix)

While Hollywood continues the unfortunate trend of restoring and recycling materials, lack of originality and fear of new creations, “Love, Death and Robots” is a refreshing breeze.

By being a collection of stories it does not always hit the target and its episodes change in quality, but each new season the series brings abundant creativity, originality, visual experimentation, and new ways of telling stories.

The new episodes are probably her best crop to date.

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