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Yahoo
6 days ago
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- Yahoo
Check out Netflix's 'Love Death + Robots' ahead of Shreveport's Geek'd Con
SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) — Geek'd Con is a few months away, but to get in the mood, fans should check out some of Netflix's recent releases. Shreveport's Geek'd Con returns, what you need to know Geek'd Con will be held in Shreveport, providing fans with an opportunity to dive into an immersive experience filled with pop culture and comics. Additionally, Netflix's latest release, 'Love, Death & Robots,' is likely to captivate fans alike. The streaming giant has recently launched a new season of this popular animated anthology series, which first premiered in 2019. 'Love, Death & Robots' explores various genres, including science fiction, horror, fantasy, and comedy. Since its debut, the show has garnered a significant following, with each episode telling a unique story featuring different characters, settings, plots, and artistic styles. Kai Cenat goes from King to Headmaster with launch of Streamer University, Louisiana native joins him Several episodes in the latest season have caught the attention of fans on social media. Two episodes worth checking out are from season 4: episodes four and nine. Episode four, titled '400 Boys,' is set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian world where gangs battle for territory. However, the story takes an unexpected turn when these gangs must unite to fight against giant mutants known as the 400 Boys. This episode reflects today's political climate and explores themes of unity and survival within society. Episode nine, titled 'Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners,' features modern appliances and objects sharing their sarcastic opinions about the humans who use them daily. The episode explores the absurdity of human behavior. To check out the trailer for Love Death + Robots, visit YouTube. For more information on Geek'd Con, visit their website Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Express Tribune
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Not enough love for robots
Netflix recently dropped the fourth volume of acclaimed animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots,.created by David Fincher and Tim Miller. Since 2019, Fincher and Miller have crafted this sleek universe where opportunities for top-of-the-line animation and exciting, genre-bending stories are in abundance. However, after six years and four volumes, it seems that the series is running out of original ideas. Standouts While Volume 4 of Love, Death & Robots still delivers absolutely beautiful animation and keeps its diversity in terms of the different visual styles, it's the storytelling that suffers. The first three volumes were hugely successful because they always had a few standout episodes. The series has always been structured to offer a few episodes, usually 10 to 15 minutes, which have the strongest story concepts backed by the most stunning animation. These episodes offer a banger beginning, middle and end to each volume, which is sprinkled with shorter, usually comic experiments. The first volume – with its 18 episodes, the highest of any so far – offered the most gems. Episodes like Sonnie's Edge, Good Hunting, The Witness and Zima Blue blew away the audience. Sonnie's Edge was a revenge tale set in the underground 'beastie' fighting world while Good Hunting explored the bond between a shape-shifter and the son of a spirit hunter in a rapidly industrialising world. The Witness follows a woman fleeing through the city after she witnesses a murder while Zima Blue recounts the journey of the artist Zima and his true identity in a story that leaves your jaw on the floor. While the eight-episode second volume saw interesting ideas like genetic modification in Ice and themes of immortality and loneliness in Snow in the Desert, it was Jibaro in volume three which deserves a spot in the all-time great episodes of the series. Alberto Mielgo's masterpiece became a cultural phenomenon due to its hypnotic CGI work and brilliant characters and story, all told without words. You could see its influence as tons of fans recreated their own versions of the iconic 'dance of death' sequence with all the makeup, jewelry and costumes. The purpose of all this is to say that there are no episodes in the latest volume which achieved this level of emotional resonance. This volume consists mainly of filler episodes that are rehashed from filler ideas of previous seasons. Night of the Mini Dead (Vol. 3) became Close Encounters of the Mini Kind. The Other Large Thing serves as a prequel to Vol. 1's Three Robots. Micro experiments like Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners, while funny, are not strong enough to be complete episodes. They are test exercises at best and feel too short to have any substance. Even Can't Stop, a Red Hot Chilli Peppers concert with animated puppets, directed by Fincher himself, seems underwhelming. This is something that Neill Blomkamp's Oats Studios also did back in 2021. The District 9 director experimented with his own collection of strange, fascinating world building and concepts. Love, Death & Robots Vol. 4 faces similar issues as Oats Studios did: exciting concepts which are left half-baked almost as teasers to full-length films which never come about. In love with death and robots This is not to say that Vol. 4 offers nothing. It offers just enough to keep it going. There are some great ideas in episodes such as Spider Rose, The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur, How Zeke Got Religion and For He Can Creep. The first three of the aforementioned episodes come close to scratching the signature Love, Death & Robots itch. Spider Rose, set in the same universe as Swarm from Vol. 3, explores a grieving woman's pursuit of revenge with the help of a furry companion. The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur offers a race-slash-fight between genetically modified gladiators atop custom-bred dinosaurs on a space station above Jupiter. It follows the same tropes of dystopian sci-fi where the poor die for the entertainment of the elite until it backfires. Despite the rehashed narrative and a feeling that perhaps more could have been done with the story, the world-building and characters make this episode a worthy addition to the series. How Zeke Got Religion is absolute chaos, a loud, twisted feverish nightmare come to life. It works with a similar structure as Kill Team Kill (Vol. 3) where a team of US armed forces fight inhumane beasts they never expected. While that team was at least foul-mouthed and humorous, the new deployment of the forces forgo the humor. And considering the hellish monstrosity that awaits them mid-air, you can't blame them for not finding the situation funny. In the same vein, we find 400 Boys where a band of survivors fight giant baby monsters called 'Boys'. But beside the hilarious image of baby-faced giants causing destruction, it doesn't give you much to take home. Love, Death & Robots also offers a surprise this season with a live-action episode 'Golgotha' in which an aquatic alien race arrives on earth. It essentially warns us not to kill and torture aquatic life and maintain the balance of the ecosystem. But the episode itself isn't much of a standout. Despite having something important to say, it doesn't say so with impact and style. For He Can Creep had the potential to be an all-time great episode. Set in London in 1757, Satan is here to battle a poet's cat as he wishes to take the poet's soul. The soul is in the form of a new verse and taking it would allow Satan to rule over the earth. But his cat isn't a pushover and will fight at all costs to defend its master. An interesting twist on the deal-with-the-devil idea that has prevailed in myth, literature and film for so long, the episode still feels like it tries too hard to be fun. But there is a lot that could have been done with this 'selling the soul' trope, and the makers end up choosing a rather vanilla iteration and presentation of the idea. Regardless, while the latest volume does offer just enough dopamine to not be bored, it is not as engaging or innovative as the early volumes. On the animation front, it still delivers top-notch visuals and sound. The issue isn't with the production, but rather the quality of stories. It feels littered with vignettes and unfinished ideas, and often weak concepts to begin with. One does hope we get a Vol. 5 to rebound with some exceptional takes. If the makers have to follow old concepts and flesh them out, the worlds of Jibaro, Zima Blue and Good Hunting offer plenty of rich aspects and depth to go on for the next several seasons.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Love, Death & Robots Aired A Great Episode Recently (But It's Not Enough To Redeem Season 4)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. SPOILER WARNING: The following article may contain a few light spoilers for Love, Death & Robots Season 4. So, if you have not used your Netflix subscription to catch up on this latest batch of weird, wild animated shorts, do not say I did not warn you if you continue to read on. I am a huge fan of anthology TV shows, and one of my all-time favorites is Love, Death & Robots. From creator Tim Miller and co-executive producer David Fincher, the Emmy-winning, Netflix animated series for adults is a collection of short sci-fi/fantasy films, typically no longer than 15 minutes, boasting mind-blowing, highly inventive stories and out-of-this-world beautiful animation. However, I hate to admit that I would not quite say that about Love, Death & Robots Season 4 (billed as Vol. 4), which is easily the series' weakest collection of films so far, in my personal opinion. Luckily, there was one bright spot among the largely disappointing experience I had this time around. In fact, I'll start by singing my praises for that episode before I get into my reservations about the season overall. Director Diego Porral's "How Zeke Got Religion' is based on John McNichol's short story of the same name. It follows a group of World War II-era pilots, one of whom, named Zeke (Keston John), is unlike the rest by being a staunch atheist. However, he begins to question his certainties when his crew's plane is attacked by a monstrous demon conjured straight from Hell by the Nazis. Love, Death & Robots is not quite a horror anthology TV show, but it has been known to scare in some episodes, and 'Zeke' is a great example of that for its traumatically graphic violence, cleverly juxtaposed with gorgeous animation from the studio Titmouse. What really takes the creature feature over the edge for me is its message about the benefit of second-guessing your beliefs, or lack thereof, and acknowledging the secrets of the universe that we, as humans, cannot confidently understand. I can't say I would call it one of the all-time best Love, Death & Robots episodes yet, but it's easily my favorite from Season 4, especially in comparison to the rest. To be clear, I do not believe Love, Death & Robots Season 4 is a complete dud, and not just counting 'Zeke.' For instance, I found director Jennifer Yuh Nelson's 'Spider Rose' quite touching, especially as a devoted pet owner, and the Tim Miller-directed 'The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur' was a decent, futuristic chase flick. However, even those bear the same problem I have with the shorts I do not care for. As far as I am concerned, the majority of installments in this volume suffer from weak executions of decent concepts or weak executions of weak concepts. I have always praised the show for consistently having story ideas that I could only dream of coming up with on my own, and animation styles unlike anything I have ever seen. Season 4, for the most part, offers very little that is refreshing in the animation department, in my opinion, which is a shame because that could have redeemed some of these shorts from their relatively unremarkable plots. Patrick Osborne's 'The Other Large Thing' has a cute concept of a cat achieving world domination with a robotic assistant's help, but it ultimately felt like a setup for a joke with a weak punchline. I was even more disappointed by Miller's live-action short, 'Golgotha,' which is about a priest (Rhys Darby) meeting with an extraterrestrial, that I feel does not fully live up to its potential in its 10-minute runtime, especially with its abrupt conclusion. I was also excited about the star-studded, stop-animation comedy 'Smart Appliances, Stupid Owners,' in which tech products complain about the humans who use them, but it was not nearly as funny to me as it clearly tried to be. The first short in this latest collection had me invested from the beginning. An animated recreation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing 'Can't Stop' live, and from none other than David Fincher at the helm? Hell yes! However, it ended up being a little underwhelming, since it is really nothing more than a short concert doc that replaces humans with CGI marionettes. Sure, I had fun with it, but I didn't think it was anything special like what Love, Death & Robots has been capable of presenting before. It is certainly cool to see Fincher return to his roots as a music video director, but I suppose I was hoping for something more from the man who directed what I believe is the absolute best episode of this anthology series, Season 3's "Bad Traveling." You know, I have rewatched some of the series' older shorts and ended up liking many of them more a second time. So, perhaps I should try to stream Love, Death & Robots Season 4 on Netflix again at some point and see how I feel then. However, there are still a few installments I might skip.
Atlantic
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
Seven Weekend Reads
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Our editors compiled seven great reads. Spend time with stories about the risks of trying to raise successful kids, an alarming trend affecting the job market, the top goal of Project 2025, and more. Stop Trying to Raise Successful Kids And start raising kind ones. (From 2019) By Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant Something Alarming Is Happening to the Job Market A new sign that AI is competing with college grads By Derek Thompson The Top Goal of Project 2025 Is Still to Come The now-famous white paper has proved to be a good road map for what the administration has done so far, and what may yet be on the way. By David A. Graham What the Press Got Wrong About Hitler Journalists accurately reported that the führer was a 'Little Man' whom the whole world was laughing at. It didn't matter. By Timothy W. Ryback Quaker Parents Were Ahead of Their Time The nearly 375-year-old religion's principles line up surprisingly well with modern parenting research. By Gail Cornwall The Aftermath of a Mass Slaughter at the Zoo Last year, a fox broke into a bird enclosure in D.C. and killed 25 flamingos. The zoo refused to let him strike again. (From 2023) By Ross Andersen The Sociopaths Among Us—And How to Avoid Them You're bound to come across the 'Dark Triad' type of malignant narcissists in life—and they can be superficially appealing. Better to look for their exact opposite. (From 2023) By Arthur C. Brooks The Week Ahead Final Destination: Bloodlines, the sixth movie in the horror franchise about people marked for death (in theaters Friday) Volume 4 of Love, Death & Robots, an animated anthology series featuring strange and darkly funny short stories (premieres Thursday on Netflix) The Emperor of Gladness, a novel by Ocean Vuong about a desperate 19-year-old who becomes the caretaker of an elderly widow with dementia (out Tuesday) Essay The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain By Graeme Wood In his last, most pathetic years, Mark Twain threw himself behind the crackpot theory that the true author of Shakespeare's plays may have been Francis Bacon … The literary critic Northrop Frye, who dismissed the Bacon theory, nevertheless had a wry aside of his own about extrapolating too freely from scattered biographical details and the unflattering portrait that is the only surviving image of Shakespeare. 'We know nothing about Shakespeare,' Frye wrote, 'except a signature or two, a few addresses, a will, a baptismal register, and the picture of a man who is clearly an idiot.' Ron Chernow's Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. More in Culture Catch Up on The Atlantic Why this India-Pakistan conflict is different Airport detentions have travelers 'freaked out.' The conclave just did the unthinkable. Photo Album Take a look at these photos of the week, showing a new pope, artistic swimming in Ontario, a bun-scrambling competition in Hong Kong, and much more.
Scotsman
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Love, Death & Robots s4: which Netflix episode is MrBeast in
Watch more of our videos on and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now MrBeast is in the cast of Love, Death & Robots for its fourth season 👀 Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... MrBeast is set to lend his voice to a Netflix show. The YouTube star has been signed up for Love, Death & Robots. But which episode will his voice appear in? MrBeast has been announced as part of the cast for the brand new series of Netflix's Love, Death & Robots. The anthology show is set to return this month and boasts quite the cast. Rock legends Red Hot Chilli Peppers are set to appear in an episode, while John Boyega has also been signed up. Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, is one of the most famous YouTube stars in the world and is also known for his Feastables snacks. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad But when will the episodes be out and which one will MrBeast star in? Here's all you need to know: Which episode of Love, Death & Robots is MrBeast in? MrBeast poses with fans at the launch of the first physical MrBeast Burger Restaurant in 2022. Photo:for MrBeast Burger |for MrBeast Burger The YouTube superstar and host of the recent Prime Video show Beast Games is set to lend his voice to the upcoming fourth season of the animated anthology show on Netflix. He is due to appear in the seventh episode of the series entitled: The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur. MrBeast is one of two stars set to feature in the show alongside Chinese American singer and actor Bai Leng. The episode has been directed by Tim Miller, who was behind the camera for Deadpool 1. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It is not the first time that MrBeast has had a voice acting role either - you may have missed it but he also had minor roles in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem in 2023 and also Kung Fu Panda 4 last year. He voiced Panda Pig in that Dreamworks movie. When is the MrBeast episode out on Netflix? Love, Death & Robots will return to the streaming service this month - after three years away. It is due to drop its fourth season on Thursday May 15 and there will be ten episodes. The full season is set to be released on May 15 and that includes the MrBeast episode. As previously mentioned above, his voice will feature in the seventh episode of the season - if you just want to jump to that. Have you got a story you want to share with our readers? You can now send it to us online via YourWorld at . It's free to use and, once checked, your story will appear on our website and, space allowing, in our newspapers.
