Love, Death & Robots: The Netflix anthology’s definitely warned us of impending disasters, and will keep doing so with Season 2.
Love, Death & Robots, stylized as Love Death + Robots, captured the imagination of many when it debuted on Netflix. The American anthology brought to us short stories across genres, ranging from dystopia to fantasy, and much more. With 5 Emmy awards and 4 Annie awards, the 18 story season one was critically acclaimed with a largely positive response that helped greenlight Season 2.
The tales tease our imagination and each ends on a pensive note, with multiple interpretations thronging the internet, thereof. One such episode caught our fancy recently, once again. Love. Death & Robots’ Ice Age is the one.
Love, Death & Robots’ Ice Age: Evolution in a Freezer
Sounds strange, doesn’t it? After all what is a freezer but a mere means to preserve raw foods and leftovers? However, after watching this episode, you would rethink before opening your own refrigerator.
The Love, Death & Robots’ Ice Age episode starts off with a couple moving into their new apartment, wherein they found an abandoned freezer. When they open it, they are in for a shock! Because within the small space of a freezer, they find an ice cube with a mammoth frozen in. Upon peering further, they notice an entire age flourishing inside. They close it abruptly and open it again, to see that time has passed by really quickly, and now they are skipping ages.
Soon, the couple find themselves witnessing the war and even get knocked about by a nuclear blast. But they witness something more; development to the max and then utter darkness as the world ends. The couple, then thinking it to be the end of the mini world they witnessed, unplug the refrigerator.
However, a miracle happens. In the morning after the apocalypse, they see the world starting again, with huge creatures taking over the planet. The mini civilization restarts inside the fridge.
Watch: Love Death + Robots Official Trailer
The disaster in development: A reflection of truth
The civilization, currently, is going through a critical stage. While the world battled with our ideologies and internal issues, a virus came wreaked havoc unrestrained, complicating the world order even further.
Netflix’s Love, Death & Robot’s Ice Age episode surely gives us a glimpse into the destruction and doom that the current times would seem, from an outsider’s perspective. From the threat of nuclear war to repercussions of industrialization and destruction of forest ecosystems, the story tried to make sense of how the next apocalypse, if manmade, would pan out.
Glimmers of Hope
While Love, Death & Robot’s Season One gave the audience a pretty good preview of the scope to which goes wrong, the stories did end with glimmers of hope. Netflix is expected to take a similar approach with masterful storytelling in Season 2.
Love, Death & Robot’s Ice Age is a dystopian future yet it sends out a message of hope. The story stresses on the need to unplug and reassess choices internationally – to reboot and see how we can rectify in unity. The Paris Climate Accord was a definitive step in that direction, but we all know how that panned out.
In fact, humans do not just need to unplug the corporation-led world order but also need to unplug the biases deeply embedded across continents. Love, Death & Robots Season Two needs to talk about that form of a reboot, from within. Breaking a system is easier than breaking oneself from within, only to bring it all together.
Love, Death & Robots’ stories show possibilities and it is expected that the pandemic as well as a story inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement may feature in Season 2.
Produced by Blur Studio, the first season saw a mix of cast and crew part of the different episodes. Prominent names included Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Topher Grace in live-action roles and others like Christine Adams, Gary Cole, John DiMaggio, Stefan Kapičić, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Nolan North, Aaron Himelstein, Samira Wiley, Elaine Tan, Omid Abtahi, Jill Talley, Chris Parnell and Josh Brener as animated characters.
Season two of Love, Death & Robots was slated to a late 2020 release with a number of repacks from Season 1. However, with the amount of investment the animated adult anthology demands, Season 2 will likely hit the platform around early or mid-2021.
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