Depending on your sensibilities, you’re likely going to be really excited by Netflix’s latest announcement or you may groan. While most everyone can agree that Tim Miller and David Fincher are great filmmakers, it would appear that their collaboration on the adult animated anthology series “Love, Death, & Robots” seems to have divided fans. But apparently, there are enough people that enjoyed the unique series, as Netflix just announced that the studio is moving forward with a Season 2.
Netflix has said that “Love, Death, & Robots” will continue on with a Season 2, which will feature even more animated shorts of various styles and tones, with Miller and Fincher aboard as executive producers. However, one big change to the series is the addition of Jennifer Yuh Nelson, as the supervising director of the new batch of episodes.
For those that didn’t check out the first season, “Love, Death & Robots” is an anthology series that uses every sort of animation, from 2D, hand-drawn classic style to the cutting edge, 3D CGI-enhanced methods of 2019, to tell various short stories that feature love, death, and/or robots. Those that enjoyed the series (like myself), saw it as a callback to an era of gratuitous, no-holds-barred animation that brings to mind “Heavy Metal.” Others saw it as a grating, cynical, and shock value for shock value’s sake.
No matter your thoughts on the first season, having Jennifer Yuh Nelson aboard as the supervising director can’t be viewed as anything other than great. She’s a filmmaker that directed the Academy Award-nominated feature “Kung Fu Panda 2,” as well as the third film in the franchise. She also recently helmed the live-action YA adventure “The Darkest Minds.” Even though she’s an acclaimed filmmaker in her own right, having one person in control of the direction of Season 2 will hopefully bring more thematic connections between the episodes, which was missing from the first batch of shorts.
No word on when the new season will be available, but the addition of Yuh Nelson, and the continued involvement of Fincher and Miller, makes “Love, Death & Robots” an even more intriguing prospect than before.
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