Adapted ranking Cloned from: Two Cineasts Presents: Love, Death & Robots ranked

Everything below is from their list but the ranking and notes will be my own. Episodes 17-35 need rewatching as of right now I have not reviewed or re-ranked them. -jSyd

The medium film is more than just the ordinary 90 minutes of entertainment. After the first photographic sequences, known as chronophotography (the photographic technique was used to show mostly humans and animals in movement) short films were there long before feature-length movies.

The Skladanowsky Brothers, the Lumière Brothers or later Georges Méliès created modern attractions but also cinematic classics that have stood the test of time. Even today short films are not only an entrance ticket to the film industry and the first attempt of a new generation to show their potential, as most directors and thus probably also your favorite directors started with short films (Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson) but a very unique genre on its own with a lot of advantages.

Apart from the fact that, for example for film students, short films are the only way to make a film at all, short films can be more expressionistic, creative don't have to be afraid of becoming box office bombs and can also simply try out absurd ideas. There's simply no time to develop a deep character study or establish ten different personalities with flaws and traits. It's all about one idea, one vision. Tim Miller and David Fincher had this vision to eventually reimagine the reboot of the film Heavy Metal from 1981 they had wanted to do for years.

So fasten your seatbelts and prepare for a ride, or better 35 individual rides you'll never forget. Since Love, Death & Robots is an anthology series therefore (except for episode Three Robots: Exit Strategies) you don't have to have seen the episodes in chronological order as every short film has a finished plot. Based on the short stories of various international writers, each episode is animated by different studios from a range of countries. The various styles make every episode unique: from cartoonish (Alternate Histories) to hyper realistic CGI (Snow in the Desert), rotoscoping-like animations (The Witness) or a look as right out of a PlayStation game (Sonnie's Edge).

The name says it all: gruesome violence, sex and everything under the influence of science fiction, sometimes obviously with robots and artificial intelligences as protagonists sometimes more subtle when the story develops and H.P. Lovecraft horror (The Tall Grass) or Blade Runner-like cyberpunk settings (Pop Squad) suck us into their short but all the more interesting worlds. Futuristic utopias, dystopias, the infinite space or alien planets and together with a lot of black humor and social criticism - Love, Death & Robots is snackable content and yet a creative blast. It combines the best skills of short films, the creativity, the forwardness, the simple yet focused world building, everything that makes you say „I'd like to see more of each and every episode!”