LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS
Some of the 18 short animated films in a new Netflix series called Love Death + Robots end with unexpected twists—like latter-day episodes of the venerable Twilight Zone shows. But the new adult-oriented anthology beats the old one for weirdness.
Part of the enhanced bizarreness on LDR probably accrues from Hollywood’s additional decades of working to perfect the ways it wields shock, horror and suspense. It’s been a long time since the original Twilight Zone episodes ran on broadcast TV from 1959 to 1964 .
LDR also increases the strangeness quotient by capitalizing on the current era’s relatively relaxed attitudes toward the profane, erotic, grisly and gory. All of those characteristics abound in the new series,...
