Love Death and Robots Season 4 Review: Fan favourite Netflix sci-fi series (LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS / ❤️❌????) is back with another set of insane stories in this NSFW anthology series featuring terrifying creatures, bizarre situations and dark comedy that will leave you scratching your head!
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Love Death and Robots Netflix Creator
Tim Miller
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Love Death and Robots Season 4 Supervising Director
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
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Love Death and Robots Season 4 Episode Directors
David Fincher, Robert Bisi & Andy Lyon, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Robert Valley, Patrick Osborne, Tim Miller, Diego Porral, Emily Dean
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Love Death and Robots Season 4 Cast
Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante, Chad Smith, Emily O’Brien, Feodor Chin, Piotr Michael, Sumalee Montano, John Boyega, Ed Skrein, Sienna King, Dwane Walcott, Rahul Kohli, Pamela Nomvete, Amar Chadha-Patel, Chris Parnell, John Oliver, Fred Tatasciore, Rachel Kimsey, Rhys Darby, Moe Daniels, Graham McTavish, Phil Morris, Michelle Lukes, Matthew Waterson, MrBeast, Bai Ling, Keston John, Braden Lynch, Roger Craig Smith, Gary Furlong, Bruce Thomas, Andrew Morgado, Scott Whyte, Melissa Villaseñor, Ronny Chieng, Amy Sedaris, Kevin Hart, Josh Brener, Nat Faxon, Niecy Nash-Betts, Brett Goldstein, Dan Stevens, JB Blanc, Jim Broadbent, Nika Futterman, Jane Leeves, Dave B. Mitchell
The series has 10 episodes, each with a runtime ranging from 5 to 15 minutes.
Love Death and Robots Season 4 Review
There’s very little that Love Death and Robots can do wrong in my book, and adding a cat or two to it just makes it better (if that’s even possible). Season 4 is another thrilling, mostly crazy and absolutely hilarious (well, sometimes very serious) ride through the minds of some of the best creators out there, complete with fantastic voice acting and top-tier animation.
The stories this season are more hilarious and slightly less unhinged, in my opinion. I found every story to be extremely enjoyable, but of course, I love the ones with the cats the most. Episode 5, titled The Other Large Thing, is the most hilarious and will leave every cat lover thoroughly amused. Other than the cats (which I am obsessed with a bit), the series’ other stories hold on to the classic sci-fi elements that the show is known for and will bring forth different feelings in everyone.
There’s an overall vibe of finding companionship in this desolate, lonely existence that rings true in almost all the episodes, while some deal with religion and tackling something bigger than us. I think the series, as usual, deals with these different, relatable themes in the best way that it knows and makes us see our lives in a different light. The twists and turns that every episode, regardless of length, takes are nothing short of entertaining, and you’ll be sitting on the edge wondering what comes next.
However, what I always appreciate about Love Death and Robots is that it can pack so much in so little. While some might say that it’s impossible to create an impact with a short runtime, this series proves it wrong, delivering one hard-hitting episode after another in 5 minutes. Whether it’s funny or sad, thrilling or existential, you leave every episode feeling something that stays with you after the entire show is over.
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I love how nothing is off-limits with this series and Love Death and Robots Season 4 features some of the most varied stories that I have come across in a while. Of course, it would be incorrect to say that the other seasons get repetitive, but with 10 episodes, every episode is new in every sense of the term. Whether it be the animation or the story, it pulls us into one immersive realm after another, and even though there’s not a lot of context, you get what is being told with almost no exposition.
One of the things that I found surprisingly enjoyable this season is how emotional it is. From Spider Rose, The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur to For He Can Creep, there’s something so human in these otherworldly stories. Spider Rose, especially, a sequel to Vol. 3’s Swarm, has notions of motherhood that will drive anyone to clutch their chests. Every other story showcases some form of vulnerability in the midst of the chaos and the gory bloodshed that connects the human with the superhuman or mystical, which makes these stories close to our hearts.
Final Thoughts
I loved Love Death and Robots Season 4 just as I have enjoyed every season that has come before it. It’s charming, hilarious and doesn’t shy away from bringing something innovative and wacky to the table, leaving the background and interpretation up to the audience. You don’t get shows like that these days, best to appreciate the ones that do! I will mention here that there’s nothing this season that is truly shocking like last season’s Jibaro that will leave you questioning everything in your life, but the approachable stories are what make it worth it for me. Some of these might be forgettable, it’s overall thoroughly fascinating to watch.
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