4/5
'Til Death Do Us Parts.
9 Episodes. Starring: Josh Brener, Greg Anthony Williams, Kate Lowes, Troy Baker, Mackenzie Davis, Holly Jade, Joel McHale, Seth Green, Gabriel Luna, Rosario Dawson, Jason Winston George, Craig Ferguson, Dan Stevens, Joe Manganiello, Christian Serratos, Jai Courtney & Girvan 'Swirv' Bramble. Created By: Tim Miller & David Fincher.
'❤️☠️🤖' returns to Netflix for a third volume of valentine, skull and death metal. All as most are more concerned with scrolling through emojis on their phone than giving their heart to the war that's upon us. But the bolts of this biting satire will repair all of that. David Fincher and Tim and Jennifer Miller's 'Love, Death + Robots' are back on the streaming service and so are those lovable 'Three Robots' (Josh Brener, Greg Anthony Williams and Kate Lowes) from eons ago. This time looking at the 'Exit Strategies' we has a human race tried to run before we became extinct. It's hilarious in its comedic pokes and haunting in its COVID jabs. It's the end of the world as we know it...and we don't feel the need to wear a mask? That's the kind of 'Bad Travelling' that goes with Fincher's Moby Dick like expedition, led by Troy Baker. One that gives you a whale of a time with a beasty that tried to take down Captain Jack Sparrow. Now, reflecting the hallucinogenic 'Fish Night' bowl of the first volume comes 'The Very Pulse Of The Machine' and this highlight of Vol. 3. With 'Black Mirror', 'Terminator: Dark Fate' and 'The Martian' star Mackenzie Davis, lost on Mars without Holly Jade and going more Matt Damon in 'Interstellar' than the aforementioned movie they co-starred in. But here as always, she's all-time and all-in on a lava lamp of volcanic and solar visuals for your system, seeing stars and the dark side of many moons.
Still don't believe we're at the brink? Then why not look upon the 'Night Of The Mini Dead' from that high horse of escapism on what looks like a miniature museum reenactment of how it all went down and the best undead bite since Flanders was a zombie. The set-up too is as hilarious as the "epic" end in this amazing animation. And that's all before the 'Kill Team Kill' gang of mercs (Joe McHale, Seth Green and a ghost riding Gabriel Luna against another Terminator set to make skulls out of them) with necks redder than all day snoozing in the sun with no sunscreen go up against a bear (part Winnie the Pooh honey, part Winter Soldier) like how it wipes its ass on a tree, that makes the one that clawed DiCaprio's 'Revenant' look like Paddington. Making more mess than an Uber Eats delivery of marmalade sandwiches. A 'Swarm' of beautiful alien life and brutal human nature with Rosario Dawson and Jason Winston George will really get into your mind and restart a conversation after this conservation. Whilst down on the farm a colony of rats led by a colonel, versus a hobo looking farmer (late night host Craig Ferguson) with a shotgun will give all new meaning to pest control in this droll drone warfare (Dan Stevens giving the city corporate hard sell to this field mouse). But it's the powerhouse penultimate episode that really packs a wallop, 'In Vaulted Halls Entombed'. Like a catacombs graveyard the waiting dead have some real creepy crawlies on their back. As an elite unit need all the helmets, bullets and proof vests they can get. Joe Manganiello taking the lead of a team that features the likes of Christian Serratos and Jai Courtney and some amazing A.I to go amongst the artifical resistance of this battalion of brothers and sisters who are about to suffer real arachnophobia like that episode of 'The Mandalorian', with no Baby Yoda to eat them. It will capture your eyes.
Eyes rising from the sheen depths of an 'Apocalyse Now' war like Coppola though, 'Love, Death' plus those machines saves the best for last like 'The Buried Giant', 'Zima Blue' or a Vanessa Williams song with the Girvan 'Swirv' Bramble starred, siren swan song 'Jibaro'. With real and raw shades of 'The Witness' of Volume 1 and predatory male themes, this close to the bone animated story is so textured in truth, you'll be forgiven for thinking it's not fake. It's message surely isn't too. As an army of knights descend on the solitary female form of what looks like the first volumes witness, decorated in more jewels and treasure than a pirates chest. But as these pillaging men are sent to the pitchforks. One deaf horseman is immune to her 'Dune' Bene Gesserit like call. It almost looks like love amongst the slaughter that runs the rivers red in these woods. But the jarring mix of inaudible rings and clattering coins amongst the songs of screams soon goes through you and wakes you up to the true nature hidden within this stirring story. If they're giving out awards to these robots then this one will compute in all its love and death. A fortnight ago, in the same week the new Netflix anime 'Ghost In The Shell: SAC_2045' Season 2 came out in all its digital animation, these bots of amore and destruction came off the assembly line for a third time. Giving character clues to each episode like the O of the 'Ozark' logo. Right before last Friday's first volume of the final season of 'Stranger Things' went to baseball bat ("the one with the nails") with the sabers of Disney + and Star Wars' new 'Obi-Wan Kenobi'. But for all the cult classics out there in a geeks dream. This Fincher and Miller show now storied has its time next to an acclaimed anime, the best show of the moment taking it back to the wonder years of the 80's and the greatest science fiction told of all-time. Man, take a look at this ghost in the machine and see what it all means. X marks the heart. All you need is love, death and robot wars. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
Further Filming: 'Black Mirror', 'Robot Chicken', 'What If...?'
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