Ranking "Love, Death & Robots", A Rejuvenating Anthology Series

Love, Death & Robots is a fever you can't sweat. It's contagious but you always desire for it. I never saw any shows like this rich with such a hurried length. Tim Miller and David Fincher emphasize this anthology series; no wonder the darkness it gives to us audiences does feel so right. IMDB 9.1 and Rotten Tomatoes' 90% audience score should also tempt you to go watch this masterpiece!

Yeah, it's only been less than a week since its premiere, but let's break down all the episodes comprehensively, ranking it by myself---as objective as I can be:

18. Three Robots---Rating: 8/10

Two human-like and giant vacuum cleaner robots strolled the world when there weren't any of us ... they just lacked of role play and movement. They only did a short trip, eventually meeting with a cat which didn't even show a gesture that their loneliness was due to environmental cause. Hard to see why I should move this anthology beyond the last place.

17. When The Yoghurt Took Over---Rating: 8/10

This series was narrative. First I thought this would be cool, but the anonymous characterization of these yoghurts couldn't make your brain attached to this episode. I'm not humanity social justice warrior, but should any kind of creation's going to confront human, it has be a better concept.

16. Suits---Rating: 8.1/10

Feels like Lee Abbott of A Quite Place got revenged. Hank was quite heroic, but Jake was the only decisive part of this episode. It was cool as well that you were prepared by mechas to fight against thousands of eyeless monsters (if you only had a shotgun, although your surveillance system was awesome, the story would only last two minutes). A quite good one, but the storyline was predictable.

15. Ice Age---Rating: 8.2/10

The only cheerful episode of Love, Death & Robots. A young couple took you to watch circus show of your not-supposed-to-be fridge. Ng, I meant this was already there. Instead of decorating your living room, you embraced yourself to watch a nuked-sponsored war from your fridge-vision. While it was fine to escape your days, it was too compact so the story couldn't be developed.

14. Alternate Histories---Rating: 8.2/10

Unfortunately we couldn't decide Indonesia's alternate proclamation time since it only dished Hitler's. I thought I could decide future like Bandersnatch---more or less---but the versions ended up in "the first creature to land its feet to moon". The only thing that was fancy was it was packed in classy, artsy graphic; like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.

13. Lucky 13---Rating: 8.4/10

Perceiving the antidote of 13 is a damned number is difficult. This episode depicted well on this number could actually bring you glimpse of hope. It was a support airship for the record. Even though she was a rookie, but Lieutenant Colby didn't hesitate. The story line was tense and the message could be adhered easily. (P. S.: I don't deliberately put the episode to number 13!)

12. The Dump---Rating: 8.4/10

When you first watched this episode, you would think of a story of a struggling government officer. But it was far, far away from your mind; Mr. Dave had this world. He was similar to our elder companion Carl of Up, only he was the "bad boy". His boredom survival in the paradox---still felt in the setting---was unbelievable. His resistance was what I thought the producers wanted us to watch; when you were mocked about your compassion, stand up as hell.

11. Sucker for Souls---Rating: 8.4/10

Who still wants to watch a bunch of archeologist guys running off a monster on which they disturbed its sleep? Yeah, for some people it's so 1999; but in this episode it is not. The monster was afraid of cats (why there are so many cats here?!)---it was hilarious. The rest of this episode's highlights were suspenseful scenes, gore details and stressing ending. A good way to sleep off tonight.

10. Helping Hand---Rating: 8.5/10

Sandra Bullock has come back to remake Gravity! No, I'm kidding. However, Anthem had tapered cheeks likewise Sandra was. The episode had memorable note, wrapped magnificently. It was all about sacrifice to do duties. The only reason this episode was ranked in the middle was it was set much identically with Gravity.

9. Blindspot---Rating: 8.6/10

The first first-digit rank of this list goes to Blindspot. It was simply because you redundantly saw a main role died in vain. Though they were all alive again---thanks to Bob's good preparation---it was an unpleasant encounter to Rookie. "If I died I wouldn't be resurrected then as I wasn't copied yet," he might think.

8. The Witness---Rating 8.7/10

It was full of disturbing graphics when you watched The Witness. The Inception-like episode whirled well though its duration wouldn't confuse your head to dizziness. The runaway was intense. Unfortunately, the story line was so shallow that the disturbance saved it a big margin.

7. Secret War---Rating 8.9/10

What you can like about Secret War the most might be its graphic details, such as aliasing, shadowing and contrast that made them like you just played Red Dead Redemption 2. But beneath all that, the message would steal for you a while; it suggested you that there was a nostalgic romance of Eastern Europe's glorified culture; survival amazingly, brother over greed and tougher yet solute character in a more extreme condition. It was like "you should be bored of Western's average adventure films!". If it was a movie, it would contend The Revenant.

6. Shape-shifters---Rating 9.1/10

Dog is known as a devoted animal. What if they upgraded to be human? You can find the answer in this episode. Brilliant mind, deep meaning. Persecutions must never undermine you.

5. Good Hunting---Rating 9.2/10

Good Hunting wrapped all Asians' core problems abundantly: ecosystem imbalance and colonization. You could find everything to blame at here. All the sins gathered around here so that you shouldn't redo them. It also did help realize that whatever you are born, you should do good and no harm to others. Where there is injustice, you have to resist.

4. Fish Night---Rating: 9.5/10

Do you remember why I said earlier that Ice Age was the most cheerful episode of this anthology series? Because Fish Night was a real life. First of all, you must be amazed by the way God gave the salesman an oasis in the midst of a desert; colorful fish flying around and they could float around them. Unluckily, the end was very tragic. That was a real life I defined; sharp in the moment you want it to be blunt.

3. Sonnie's Edge---Rating: 9.7/10

This was the first episode the series' algorithm served me, so I considered it as the pilot episode. It was outstanding, obviously. Sonnie conquered this world heavily. I was surprised to know that she integrated herself to her "beastie"! The sh*tshow details were presented well. All the blood, the wreck, the intensity, the anger of being made a bid... the storyline was bewildered. It was a place to decide whether Love, Death & Robots is awesome or not.

2. Beyond the Aquila Rift---Rating: 9.9/10

Halfway through, I thought this episode was resiliently epic. It should topple this chart. High-key I couldn't differ what's CGI and what's real. Is Greta really a human? Were Thom and crews napping? Or were they dead at all? It was one of the longest stories in this series, and it was worth all of the investment. A high class drama, started with ungainly conversation of Thom and Greta with waking up at its end.

Yes, sex is good, but have you ever tried got up finding yourself in the edge of your journey?

1 Zima Blue---Rating: 10/10

What could overcome Beyond the Aquila Rift? It is Zima Blue. Before going further, I would like to say that Love, Death & Robots was so marvelous and breathtaking that you can accept that there is something beyond the sky limit. Yes, Zima is for instance. He even engineered his body so he was able to leap a tourney across the universe. He should defeat Thanos with that ability instead of only becoming an artist!

Zima Blue was philosophic. There were meanings you could interpret. If the disremembering felt good to you, it meant a happy farewell. If it broke your heart, then all you had to do was to remember all the good deeds brought by him. It was the end most artists dream of: signing off when they impact broadly to their surroundings. Never be sad; what's lost its legacy remains.

This episode does deserve a full scale. Full stop.

MAM

23rd March, 2019