Love, Death & Robots: 9 Reasons You MUST Watch

For lovers of gore, violence and horror in general, Love, Death & Robots may be right up your street. The use of gore and violence varies throughout each episode, especially as some don’t include any at all. However, for the most part, these are key themes in the series and can be very entertaining.

Due to the different animation styles, it’s interesting to watch how gore translates across each episode. There’s very realistic looking brutality in the photo-realistic ones, whilst other forms of blood and violence are more muted and even funny in the anime and cartoon-like episodes.

The use of horror also changes throughout the series, too. Sometimes there are werewolves and aliens, but other times the monsters are humans. Many of the stories are quite dark and bleak with huge tones of horror at their core.

It’s refreshing to see horror used in many ways as it’s not always overtly presented. One of the most unexpected examples in the series comes from the When the Yogurt Took Over episode. It’s a cartoon episode about yogurt becoming sentient and taking over the world. It’s a lot of fun but there are still subtle themes of existential dread underlying the entire episode.