# Love, Death, & Robots (Netflix animated series)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, netflix\
**Created:** [March 16, 2019, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222 "2019-03-16T10:07:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2022, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/61 "2022-05-25T21:18:23Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> The swarm was interesting but ultimately felt a little pointless.

FWIW, “Swarm” was a nearly word for word adaptation of a short story in Bruce Sterling’s Shaper/Mechanist book/stories from the early 80s. In-universe, it makes a lot of sense.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2022, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/62 "2022-05-26T06:18:36Z")

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I’m about halfway through this season and loving it.  
I liked that the rats one had a happy ending.

> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> I LOVED the miniature zombie apocalypse.

Me too. They _nailed_ that tilt-shift miniature look.  
Does anyone know - were the giant mutant fire-breathing zombies a specific reference, or just general escalation?

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**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/63 "2022-05-27T01:46:39Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Does anyone know - were the giant mutant fire-breathing zombies a specific reference, or just general escalation?

It felt very videogamey, like a later level tougher enemy. Probably not a specific reference though.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2022, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/love-death-robots-netflix-animated-series/831222/64 "2022-05-27T13:34:11Z")

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> [@Hypno-Toad](#):
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> Wow on Jibaro. I loved the freaky way she moved and how the knights twirled and danced as they ran to their death. It really highlighted the madness of her scream. I feel like she was as much a harpy as a siren what with her “call” being a violent scream rather than a song.
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> Also, I like that it was the deaf knight who first woke her up when he dipped his hand in the water for a drink.

Yeah, Jibaro was very unsettling. I was trying to figure out how they made it. Apparently it’s all stop-motion CGI (not motion capture). They had professional dancers perform the scenes and then used them as reference.

Kill Team Kill was hilariously horrifying. (Joel McHale and Seth Green providing some of the voices).

Mason’s Rats also deserves a mention.

Through many of the shorts, I felt like there was a common theme of “team goes in, unexpected monstrous horror, maybe one or none come out” Mason’s Rats was sort of the reverse of that.

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