Scattered Shorts

Love, Death & Robots is on Netflix, an anthology of animated shorts produced by David Fincher and Tim Miller. Each one is self-contained—sci-fi, horror, comedy, fantasy, whatever—and animated in a different style. No thread, no recurring characters, no arc. Just individual episodes you can watch in any order or skip entirely.

I went through most of them and stayed interested the whole time. There’s one where Hitler gets killed in increasingly ridiculous ways. A space crew waking up from cryo millions of miles off course with no explanation. A cyborg robbery crew hitting an armored target in seconds. The shorts are deliberately weird and don’t pretend to add up to anything.

The animation is what makes it work. Different artists on each episode means different visual approaches, different techniques, so you’re not watching the same template everywhere. Some are forgettable, but the strong ones—”Good Hunting,” Three Robots, Witness—have texture that sticks. The craftsmanship is doing the heavy lifting, making thin premises feel substantial.

I usually get bored with anthology formats. One story finishes, you reset for the next, and after a while you’re just watching disconnected moments. This one doesn’t ask much—watch the idea play out, move on. That low-pressure approach actually works. Not every episode lands, but when something does it lands clean.