Breaking down Love, Death & Robots season 3 by the amounts of love, death, and robots
Tim Miller and David Fincher’s edgy adult animated anthology Love, Death & Robots is back with volume 3, baby! Season 1 of the series really pushes the graphic nudity and extreme violence with 18 shorts that are pretty dang long. Season 2, by contrast, is punchier and sharper, trading in gratuitous tiddies in favor of more poignant storytelling.
Season 3 follows in the footsteps of season 2, keeping the individual shorts shorter and snappier. There are more guts and gore than in season 2, though without the excessive sexual violence from season 1. We love to see it!
True to past Polygon tradition, we’ve broken down each of this season’s nine shorts by the amount of love, death, and robots they contain, as well as the general enjoyment factor.
The first direct sequel in Love, Death & Robots history — from the mind of acclaimed sci-fi novelist John Scalzi. The titular trio of droll droids return to take a whirlwind tour studying post-apocalyptic human survival strategies before mankind was finally snuffed out.
Love: Once again, these three robots are buddies who certainly share strong platonic love.
Death: Various human corpses the robots find in increasingly compromising positions. It’s pretty morbid, but also very funny. The fall of mankind is actually comedic.
Robots: Right there in the title.
Does it work? Because the joke behind the robots’ vacation is the same as it was in season 1, the jokes in this “Three Robots” sequel aren’t as funny as they were the first time. But it’s still oddly charming to see the robots tour the dilapidated remains of human civilization, making pointed jokes about how tech billionaires thought they could survive the apocalypse without any survival skills. The kicker at the end of this
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