Author's note: The following review was published on Spanish language in April 24th. It may content spoilers.
On March 15th, Netflix premiered a sort of anthology of 18 science fiction and fantasy stories named Love, death & robots. Each chapter lasted from 5 to 20 minutes; in them we can see a wide range of 2D and computer animations.
I found out about this series through YouTube; the scenes I saw and the opinions of the fans prompted me to look for it and watch it. Frankly I can say that fans of any of the mentioned genres will not be disappointed, as there are for all tastes, colors and sizes. There are chapters, such as the second titled "Three Robots" and the sixteenth entitled "Ice Age" where you can laugh out loud; and others, such as the eleventh chapter entitled "Helping Hand" and the fifth chapter entitled "Soul Sucker", where you will be "flipando" as the Spaniards say when you get out of amazement.
Of course, there'll be stories that would seem a little sluggish, as the episode titled "Alternate Histories", where you'll see the six ways to die of Hitler and its consequences.
What I loved about this anthology is the creative exploration through animation, the balanced use of colors and, in the specific case of "Good Hunting" "Witness", "The Secret War", "Beyond the Aquila Rift", "Blood Sucker" and "Suits", their arguments. These animations in particular evoked a series of films that I saw at the time during my childhood and adolescence as The Matrix, Underworld and Alien sagas. In these stories in particular we see a culmination of psychological terror, cyberpunk, the fascination of man for the supernatural and the possible war with other worlds.
Now, if you ask me which of these stories is my favorite, I would definitely say they are "The Secret War" and "Suits". Their narratives left me speechless, especially the first one; in fact, I agree with some viewers that both should have their own series. It would be interesting to see a Russian Red Army team deal with the demonic entities invoked by an ambitious guy and a group of human farmers seated on Saturn fighting the relatives of the xenomorphic villain with their war machines to protect their farms from imminent destruction.
I hope that the directors and Netflix itself decide to do a second season. Or, at least, that they listen to the request of two potential series.
