I started watching a strange new Netflix series called Love Death + Robots. The series consists of a collection of animated short stories. Some animations are relatively humorous. Others are graphic tales of horror. A few are dripping with sex. The animations also range from cartoonishly rendered to seemingly impossibly realistic.
All of the stories are strange,
but I find myself enjoying most of them.
I appreciate the originality and absurdity allowed by the animations. I am, in particular, astounded by how lifelike
some of the human animations are. The line
between reality and fantasy is being erased.
Following one particularly
brutal but realistically rendered episode, I had to stop watching for a while. I was a little rattled. I thought about how, in 1938, Orson Welles caused
a real-life panic with a radio broadcast of “The War of the Worlds,” a radio
dramatization about Martians invading New Jersey. Some people tuning in to listen to the
program thought the invasion was real.
—Mitchell Hegman
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