Love, Death & Robots, Season Four by Various Artists (2025)
As with most anthologies, this is a mix of hits and duds. Unfortunately, this season starts off weakly with “Can’t Stop,” which is just a Red Hot Chili Peppers performance in marionette form. And though I enjoyed season two’s “Night of the Mini Dead,” “Close Encounters of the Mini Kind” is perfunctory and juvenile. (For the record, I hope bestiality doesn’t play a part in the real alien invasion.) Other episodes, like “Spider Rose,” “The Other Large Thing,” and “Golgotha,” aren’t bad, just obvious and clichéd. That said, I enjoyed “400 Boys” and its weird vision of psychic street gangs (led by John Boyega and Ed Skrein) battling god-like extra-dimensional beings as well as “How Zeke Got Religion,” in which a WW2 bomber crew fights for survival against a Nazi-summoned demon, with predictably shocking and gory results. I’m glad to see Netflix promoting animation as an art form, but I wish the individual episodes were more original and intriguing. To that end, I still think the series’ first season is its best, thanks to episodes like “Beyond the Aquila Rift,” “Good Hunting,” and “Zima Blue.”
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