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If you’ve been eagerly waiting for  Love, Death & Robots Volume 2  ever since its announcement (like me), it’s finally here! It’s a shorter anthology this time with only 8 episodes as opposed to 18 in the previous season. It’s dark, strange, and uncomfortable in some places, which is precisely what I expect from this series. Now, if you’ve already watched it or are planning to watch it, here’s my Love, Death & Robots Season 2 review where I share my thoughts about this amazing animated show. Love , Death & Robots Volume 2 Review The 8 episodes in Love, Death & Robots Season 2 are: Automated Customer Service Ice Pop Squad Snow in the Desert The Tall Grass All Through The House Life Hutch The Drowned Giant The show promises Love, Death & Robots but a few episodes didn’t have it all. But that’s okay if the stories are amazing, which unfortunately is not the case here. While watching S2, I ended up comparing the stories to those in Volume 1 which were piteous...

  ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Review Volume 1: David Fincher and Tim Miller’s Netflix Shorts Are One-Dimensional Beauty Too often hyper-masculine and half-baked, the Netflix series offers distinct visual styles that need more substance. “Love, Death & Robots” Good ideas wasted are often more infuriating than no idea at all. Such is the case with Tim Miller and David Fincher’s series of animated short films, “Love, Death & Robots,” a project conceived with broad ambition and executed with a maddeningly narrow perspective. Uniting animators from around the world for 18 standalone stories of various self-determined lengths, the  Netflix  offering intends to be a “global celebration” of the craft. While there’s a lot to admire in the visuals — each distinct to their episode, with an enticing range of styles on display — the stories themselves are treated like an afterthought, and that colors everything an ugly shade of gray. Only one-third of the first season was scree...