Love, Death + Robots: seasons, episodes, soundtrack and origin

We don’t know how long it will last, but until now some digital platforms have served to make room for content that shows that it has been developed without any creative obstacles. Series in which artistic criteria have prevailed over other considerations and that have allowed true geniuses to show their incredible talent. And Love, Death + Robots is an example of that, which will soon premiere a third season and has been telling us some stories since March 2019… amazing?

What is Love, Death + Robots?

Love, Death + Robots is an animation series, both 2D and 3D techniques, that tells self-contained stories in each chapter that touches on themes such as science fiction, fantasy, horror, drama, and even comedy. But the qualities of each installment do not end there: in each and every one of them the three leitmotifs that give the saga its title are treated from a different perspective, so love, death and robots are touched upon. It seems simple to understand, right? Well there is more.

The first thing you should know is that it is not a good idea to put this series on your young children. The fact that it is animated does not mean that the arguments deal with issues of extreme sensitivity , with situations that at times become very crude and that justify that classification for people over 18 years of age. It is, to make a comparison, like those comic books focused exclusively on adults, where there is no room for light stories and they do not try to find the impact on the reader’s mind. Hence its suggestive success that has allowed the series to reach three seasons, or volumes, which is how they are defined on Netflix.

Not in vain, behind Love, Death + Robots we find such renowned names in the industry as David Fincher, a director who regularly collaborates with Netflix –and thanks to whom we owe the sensational House of Cards or Mindhunter . Animation artists Jennifer Miller and Tim Miller also participate, as well as Joshua Donen or Alberto Mielgo, a Spanish animation director who has participated in volumes one and three.

Science fiction shorts for philosophers?

One consequence of this adult treatment of the stories is that there are those who, on the part of the spectators and the critics, have come to describe the series as “science fiction for philosophers” due to the convoluted nature of some approaches in which we You will come to find and understand when love, death and robots are talked about. And it is that practically all of the 28 chapters available right now –18 belonging to the first Volume and 10 to the second–, plus the 9 that are about to arrive on May 20, maintain very different levels with very different degrees of genius.

And that is precisely the key to Love, Death + Robots : that we will have the opportunity to find great chapters while others are left with the label of simply fun. As if that were not enough, this self-contained condition allows us to be able to see them all in the order that we most want, depending on the type of animation that we like to enjoy at each moment. Because nothing else, but in this series you are going to find genres and subgenres nested in chapters in a way that is shocking, provocative and suggestive.

What is the inspiration for Love, Death + Robots?

The stories that we are told in Love, Death + Robots do not come from a single source but each creator has sought inspiration in the books and stories that they have considered appropriate. So we cannot determine exactly if the origin of the moment in which the decision to start working on this fiction is made stems from the pages of a single work.

Yes, some references are known, such as the book Zima Blue and other stories by Alastair Reynolds, which has served to develop the arguments of two chapters of the first volume entitled Beyond Aquila and Zima Blue. Except in that couple of cases, the others have an origin that only the creators can confirm and, for the moment, they have not spent any effort to do so.

What we can say is that the series project is based on the idea that David Fincher and Tim Miller had handled since the end of the 2000s and, although the original work was not going to be exactly how Love, Death + Robots ended up being , the concept was to carry out a theatrical remake of the 1981 film Heavy Metal .

Legend has it that the project got off the ground when David Fincher told Tim Miller – who had just made it big with Deadpool – “well, now that you’ve become famous we’re going to use it […] screw up the plan to make a movie. Let’s take it to Netflix, they’re going to let us do whatever we want.” So said and done.

What order did you watch the episodes in?

At the launch of the series, in March 2019, Netflix played with viewers by taking advantage of the self-contained nature of the stories in each episode and created four different viewing orders, which were randomly shown to each of the platform’s users. The result is that millions of subscribers have seen the episodes in a different way without falling into the possibility that there could be another way to reproduce them.

Needless to say, when the news spread, many concocted conspiracy theories to try to explain this decision by Netflix when, surely, it was a simple AB test to determine which of the four playlists was the one that obtained the best global viewing results. Even so, we will put below an order as valid as any other you can find, since even today it seems that the platform maintains these different variants. Luckily, in the second season there were no doubts and a single official order was shown .

All episodes and seasons

Below we leave you the list of Volumes (seasons) and chapters of each one. Are these:

Love, Death + Robots Vol. 1

Sonny’s Advantage
three robots
The witness
Suits
Soul Eater
yogurt to power
Beyond Aquila
Good hunting
the landfill
METAMORPHOSIS
Helping Hand
sea creatures night
lucky 13
Zima Blue
Blind point
The ice age
alternate stories
the secret war

Listen to the soundtrack here.

Love, Death + Robots Vol. 2

Automated customer service
Ice
evolutionary response
snow in the desert
the tall grass
All over the house
Shelter
the drowned giant

Listen to some songs from the series here.

Love, Death + Robots Vol. 3

The third season premieres on May 20, 2022 and the titles of each chapter are already known, as well as the names of some animation artists and directors involved. And just reciting them scares: David Fincher, Alberto Mielgo –Oscar winner for The Windshield Wiper– , Tim Miller with a story by Bruce Sterling and much more. Here you have the trailer published by Netflix to inject us with a good dose of hype in our veins until the day of the premiere.