The third volume of Love Death & Robots brings 9 new episodes of Netflix's edgy adult animation anthology to the streaming service with a variety of visually inventive sci-fi and fantasy shorts in a range of genres from futuristic comedy to military horror or cerebral science fiction. While some of the stories are more straightforward entertainment, others leave the viewer with a thought provoking ending or shocking cliffhanger.
Executive produced by Tim Miller and David Fincher, Love, Death & Robots is the evolution of a pitch for a Heavy Metal anthology remake the duo tried to develop with James Cameron over a decade ago before eventually arriving on Netflix in its current form, adapting a variety of short stories with the occasional original script written for the show. The first volume arrived on Netflix in 2019 with 18 episodes, garnering enough popularity for an 8 episode second season and 9 episode third season.
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Love, Death & Robots Volume III features the series' first sequel as well as David Fincher's animation debut. The shorts also feature a superstar voice cast featuring actors like Joel McHale, Seth Green, Rosario Dawson, Joe Manganiello, and more.
As the first Love, Death & Robots sequel, Three Robots: Exit Strategies ironically sidesteps the quasi-cliffhanger ending where the robots are surrounded cornered by intelligent cats demanding to be petted. Instead, the episode simply opens to the three titular robots arriving at a new stop on their vacation tour of humanity's extinction. While the first Three Robots episode had significant political undertones, it was mostly veiled through the robots' contextless description of human society, the
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