Netflix's Love, Death & Robots: All 18 Episodes, Ranked Worst To Best
5. Beyond The Aquila Rift
Awakening after
traveling light years off course, a ship’s crew struggles to discover just how
far they’ve come.
Beyond the Aquila Rift is the highest rated episode on IMDb, and it’s easy to figure why. It looks pretty damn-near live action and has a story that’s thought-provoking and a deeply disturbing ending. The animation is a bit uncanny at times, but mostly bloody magnificent.
The lack of realistic facial features makes it hard to resonate with the characters emotionally, but that was never really part of the plot. A bizarrely unneeded sex scene halts the drama of the mystery, till the answers are revealed in a horrifying instant.
Being number five is a feat so don’t take the criticism as dislike; the episode is one of the more compelling and plays as a short unlike a scene from a longer feature. If the nudity was absent (or more dignified) and the animation was just slightly better, this would have had a decent shot at number one.