The first season of the animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots was a welcome discovery for many viewers and a sure victory for Netflix in developing its own catalog of animated works. However, in 2019, the community did not yet know that the following seasons would be worth watching only for individual episodes. Tim Miller and David Fincher seemed to be unable to come close to the perfectly balanced structure of the first season, which is why the impressions of the second and third were forgotten almost instantly.
In the fourth season of the show Love, Death & Robots there was a chance to fix everything. Especially since with Black Mirror, which is also an anthology, Netflix managed to find the right path again. However, animation dictates its own rules, which the management of the streaming service does not seem to fully understand. Therefore, another portion of independent stories about technology and not only is almost not impressive.
| Name | Love, Death & Robots |
| Genre | science fiction, fantasy, animated anthology |
| Director | Tim Miller |
| Cast | MrBeast, Roger Craig Smith, John Boyega, Chris Parnell, Emily O'Brien and others |
| Channel | Netflix |
| Episodes | 10 |
| Year | 2025 |
| Link | IMDb |
The fourth season of Love, Death & Robots consists of 10 independent stories of about 10 minutes each. At the same time, you can see that the authors were not particularly limited in anything, so the connection to science fiction and the impact of technology on society turned out to be quite conditional. Some episodes do without it and instead focus on magic and mystical events. And one series was filmed with real actors, and the computer animation in it is more of an addition.
The essence of the fourth season is perfectly described in its very first episode. In it, the Red Hot Chili Peppers perform the song Can't Stop, a version from a concert at Slane Castle in 2003. However, instead of live actors, all the people were depicted as puppets. The band performs the song - and that's it. And this episode was directed by David Fincher himself.
Is this surprising? Maybe someone, but in general the series does not cause any impressions. Unless you are an ardent fan of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. However, in general, everything looks more like a demonstration of the technical abilities of the authors. Fincher's talents also went to this, and not the new season of Mindhunter. And so in season 4 of the show with almost all episodes.
They are not visually surprising, they are not shocking on a story level, they do not evoke strong emotions. The series "Love, Death & Robots" / Love, Death & Robots in the fourth season has turned into something on the level of a TikTok video. The episode "Smart Technology, Stupid Owners" is perfectly structured for a short format of 30-60 seconds. However, when some TikTok accounts create animation of higher quality than the talents that cooperate with Netflix, it is already a reason to think.
And it cannot be said that the authors do not have ideas, although some deficit of originality in the fourth season is still noticeable, so we got three short films about pets at once. On the contrary, there are still enough ideas in "Love, Death & Robots", some of them are simply not able to interest, others are not fully revealed, and still others suffer from presentation and animation style. The anthology was loved, among other things, for its visual diversity. In the new season, half of the episodes strive for "CGI-realism", a somewhat unified style, as if the authors are afraid of experiments, which also does not benefit the series.
This doesn't mean that the show "Love, Death & Robots" didn't have anything interesting to offer in its fourth season. The episodes "Spider Rose", "The Four Hundred", "How Zeke Came to Believe" and "Because He Can Crawl" are official translations of Ukrainian Netflix, but some of them are incorrect, so don't take them too seriously - at the same time, they look nice and tell interesting stories, even if somewhat simple.
So, "The Four Hundred" shows the union of street gangs to fight against a common supernatural enemy, and the author of the short film "Winter Blue" beloved by many viewers, Robert Valley, was responsible for the episode. And "How Zeke Came to Faith" is almost continuous action with an interesting look at religion, also stylized as classic animation, which is pleasing to the eye. However, even the strongest episodes still do not reach the level of the first season - and even lose to the best episodes of the second and third.
The worst thing is that there is almost nothing to say about the fourth season of "Love, Death & Robots". It is not a bad show, but it is definitely not good either. In it, the technicality of execution prevails over any interesting ideas, which contradicts the essence of animation as an art form. After all, animation allows you to depict the most amazing scenes due to the imperfection of the methods. For some reason, the authors of the Netflix anthology forgot about this. Therefore, it turned out to be more of a demonstration of the skills of animators and artists, a kind of advertising presentation, but not a work of art at all. So get ready to be bored. It's good that at least it doesn't take up much time.
And another character was voiced by popular blogger MrBeast. An absolutely pointless role and a blatant marketing ploy, but someone might like it.