You may have seen our review of Volume 2 of this stunning series, so today we bring you our thoughts on the long-awaited Love, Death and Robots Volume 3, which features more fantastic imagery and twisted tales and is streaming now on Netflix.
Emmy-winning animated anthology Love, Death + Robots returns with a third volume executive produced by Tim Miller (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) and David Fincher (MINDHUNTER, Mank). Terror, imagination and beauty combine in new episodes which stretch from uncovering an ancient evil to a comedic apocalypse, telling startling short stories of fantasy, horror and science-fiction with trademark wit and visual invention.
Three Robots: Exit Strategies
The opening episode takes us on a journey into the future as the three robots from the end of volume 1 return to take a walk around a post-apocalyptic Earth, bringing us a look at humankind’s last attempts to save itself from annihilation. The story is short and features some nice one-liners to make you laugh in the face of the disastrous future, the CGI looks fantastic and the twist is one that I wasn’t expecting, but certainly has me laughing out loud.
Bad Travelling
This s a dark and foreboding addition to Love, Death and Robots Volume 3 as we join a sailing ship as it sails across an alien ocean, one of the ship’s crew makes a bargain with a monster from the deep known as a Thanapod that has a taste for human flesh and bone to get it to an island. This is a rather freakish story and the animation circle brings the Thanapod to life with gory detail, with shocking results.
The Very Pulse of the Machine
This was an episode I watched a couple of times to take it all in, when an expedition to a Jovian moon ends with a crash landing and one of the two crew dying, it’s up to the lone survivor to begin a mind-bending journey to try and survive, this episode has some real moments that mess with your head, but it works for the material and the animation is accompanied by a brilliant soundtrack to take you through the journey.
Night of the Mini Dead
What can I say about this, the shortest of the episodes, well it’s completely bonkers! It starts with a couple arriving at a churchyard late at night to have an unholy sex session, but it all goes very wrong and it kicks off a worldwide zombie plague and the apocalypse, but what makes this different to most zombie stuff you may have seen is that it’s all in miniature, yep that’s right, it’s almost as if you are watching your Sims game and it’s all not going to plan.
Kill Team Kill
Taking is to the realms of bad language, gore, craziness and a Honeybear, a US Special Forces team that is trained to destroy any threat that comes up against possibly their hardest foe to defeat yet, a cybernetic killing machine that has been created by the CIA, packed with some great animation and moments of humour that will give you a smile, Kill Team Kill is entertaining.
Swarm
Another of the episodes that have CGI that once you are watching you forget is computer-generated, this episode looks great, two human scientists study the secrets of an ancient alien entity, but as with most stories in the series things don’t always go to plan and after a while they learn that they have to pay the price to survive in a universe that is more hostile than they may have first though. The story is a bit of a slow burner but the end result is one that will shock.
Mason’s Rats
This 10 minute short certainly has the comedic and shock factor to keep you entertained. Farmer mason has a pest problem in his barn, the rats are revolting! They have armed themselves and are taking the barn for themselves, but Farmer Mason has other ideas and sens in the Ratpocalypse, the ultimate rodent deterrent. Be warned this is a bloody episode but what brings light to it is Farmer Mason and his one-liners and more.
In The Vaulted Halls Entombed
Yet again more great animation, it took me a short while to get into the flow of this one as a special forces squad is sent on a hostage rescue mission but they find themselves up against a barrage of creatures that can rip through a person in seconds, but soon they discover that they are trapped in a prison containing an age-old evil that has only one thing set on its mind and let’s just say that it’s nothing good.
Jibaro
I have to say that the best was certainly for last in Love, Death and Robots Volume 3, Jibaro tells the story of a deaf knight who comes across a siren that takes her prey by her screams and deadly dance, but with the knight being deaf, he has the ultimate defence against her. Jibaro has some of the best CGI that I have seen for a long time, it looks absolutely stunning, the story is simple, but its twists and turns keep you glued from start to finish and for me, this is the best episode in Volume 3.
Love, Death and Robots Volume 3 has been another very bingeable series on Netflix. If you’ve not seen the first two volumes, then you can still see them on Netflix, with the first one having 18 episodes and the second having 8.
Good news for fans of the show as Love, Death & Robots season 4 will be arriving on Netflix on May 15th, 2025.
More twisted tales and amazing CGI
Name: Love, Death and Robots Volume 3
Description: The series returns for Volume 3 and a collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.
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Three Robots: Exit Strategies
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Bad Travelling
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The Very Pulse of the Machine
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Night of the Mini Dead
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Kill Team Kill
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Swarm
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Mason's Rats
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In Vaulted Halls Entombed
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Jibaro
Summary
Love, Death and Robots Volume 3 brings us another 9 stories that will have you chomping at the bit for the visual delights and bizarre stories, a show that is worth the time to binge-watch.
Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
