Ranking Every Episode From Love, Death And Robots
10. Beyond The Aquila Rift
Easily one of the most expensive looking shorts, Beyond the Aquila Rift is a gorgeous looking sci-fi mystery about a spaceship that travels lightyears off course while its crew sleeps in hibernation tanks. After Tom's spaceship gets lost in space, he encounters an old acquaintance and fling who informs him of his dire situation and tries to reconnect with him.
The less said about this episode the better because its significant successes and elements worthy of praise come in the last few minutes of this 17 minute short. The ending works brilliantly and achieves a sense of horror that no other short on the list manages to accomplish.
That being said, although the animation is exceptional with the faces of characters being a highlight, the short slips into slight gratuity at times. The collection has plenty of nudity in nearly all the shorts and it isn't the only one to feature a sex scene, but the naked exposition that followed the sex scene felt a little unnecessary where focus on character development could have been a better use of time.