User Reviews

My first episode. It was quite alright, some funny scenes. The animation was solid, but the story lacked originality and complexity.

I can watch this episode over and over just to see the pup. Well, the hidden meaning behind this episode could be our dependence on automated gadgets until it comes to a point that those gadgets can rule over human beings. Who knows this could be the future!

It takes it's joke a little far at times, but it's a pretty funny joke, so it can be forgiven, and the animation style is quirky and interesting.

Not the best episode of the season, but far from the weakest.

'Automated Customer Service (2021)' takes place in a futuristic retirement village where the inhabitants are cared for by various types of fully-automated robotics. One day, a woman's vacuum cleaner decides that she's part of the dirt and does everything it can to 'clean' her up. The first thing to say is that the character designs are, frankly, upsetting. Their disproportionately large heads, tiny little hands, uncanny expressions and almost disembodied voices add up to a distinctly anti-aesthetically pleasing experience. Thankfully, the actual short that features them isn't nearly as egregious. It's decent, half-expected sci-fi survival schlock (a theme that the show seems to like). It provides a couple of enjoyable suspense sequences, as our hero is chased by and hides from her hoover, and it's generally well executed. It doesn't amount to much, though, and there aren't any real underlying themes - aside from the obvious 'technology turning against us' motif that marks the bread and butter of most science-fiction stuff. It's a decent short overall, even if its character designs are truly terrible. 6/10.

Technically good, but nothing new in any way. To watch and forget. Nevertheless, it is worth watching, because the keynote is interesting.

Nothing new in ideas but a fun, silly and short episode; that just gets you laughing!!

Well, it lacked the originality of the first season, I don't think any of the scenes was funny, and it basically didn't made any sense...

Hilarious episode about an artificial intelligence that rebels against its elderly mistress and tries to kill her in all possible ways while she in all ways faces herself with the terrible assistance and the robot.

Netflix's "Love, Death and Robots" series returns for a second run. Overall, I enjoyed the first season and wrote short individual reviews for each episode and I think I'll take the same approach here.

In a world where robots take care of all facets of life, one senior citizen Jeanette (Nancy Linari) begins to argue with her vacuum cleaning droid about the location of a picture. The argument escalates until the machine is trying to kill her. Whilst trying to survive Jeanette phones the customer helpline (Ben Giroux) and tries to navigate the automated advice she receives.

I quite liked the stylised artworld that "Meat Dept" chose for this short. The human's have exaggerated head sizes, that help sell the emotions. It's not quite the same, in retrospect, but the style reminded me of the music video for "Starlight" by the band The Supermen Lovers, in 2001. (Contemporary references for the kids there!)

The story was OK too, frustrations about automated helplines are already a little overdone, but the delivery of the lines was funny, as was some of the absurdity of what the helpdesk suggested. There's some prescient thoughts on combining different A. I together and what might happen when systems of pure logic start to interact with each other, but mostly it was a light and amusing episode.

Annoying animation with a dull, unfunny story makes for a rather poor episode. The new series is not off to a great start.

This is one of my favorite episodes from Season 2, perhaps because Season 2 was an overall let down. That being said, this episode was hilarious and wacky. Is the animation groundbreaking? No, but I think it's the right medium as it just makes all the character's actions more entertaining. Yes there isn't much of a story, because new flash there isn't supposed to be. It's old people in a retirement home fighting back against their sentient technology. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.

I do not understand the hate just like I do not understand how people call this a 10/10 masterpiece (because it's not). Learn to stop reading into comedy and just enjoy it for what it is.

Not that good episode, short story with a little of dark comedy which the series is used to.

This is the first episode that I watched. As in the previous season, I thought the quality of the animation itself was very good, but the design of human characters was not that good. If you don't take it so seriously, I think it's an episode worth watching. But I think I'll be in the bottom ranks this season.

Like the Yogurt one of the previous season, this might be the funniest entry for this season (not to be taken seriously at all...... seem people forgot this is not a one set genre anthology series, especially with mixing between heavy drama and comedy shorts..)

But its silliness will turn some people away I am sure, just like the yogurt one. But people appreciated it more later on.

The animation was perfection. I've always liked weird shaped heads in art/animation. So this was right up my alley.

The sequel should be mad max style with the granny still on the run. Jk. Doesn't need a sequel. I just want 15+ episodes next season!!

I found the first episode of season 2 to be rather childish in humour. In my opinion the peak of the episode humour occurred near the start when we see the neighbour behind the fence. The overall plot seemed to be lacking in my opinion.

Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Like all of the better ones it's 10 minute runtime is packed with quality animation, a good story and more than a few laughs. A great start (This is Episode 1 on Netflix) to Season 2.

This feels like a pitch meeting that resulted in a lot of "we'll fill that bit in later", only they never did. Yet again, John Scalzi delivers nothing beyond desperate tweeness with no substance to it.

Yes, I get that it's a light-hearted mild-peril comedy, and there are some amusing lines and visuals. But it's not exactly packed with them, and the core concept isn't strong enough to cover up for that. It doesn't quite fill its short runtime.

The worse part is the art and animation, which is frankly a grotesque parody of humanity. In a longer production you'd have time to get used to it, but this (mercifully) ends before reaching that point, so it's simply creepy all the way through here.

A very poor choice for a season opener.

I really enjoyed this season opener. It was fresh, it was zany, and like many other entries in this series it begs a question that is often asked in life today. What if our devices are really working against us? Where some might tell their deepest secrets to their Alexa, others might shun that technology altogether claiming intrusion. Life is a prism and it often paints many different shades of reality.

Not to spoil a single plot point but basically this episode was about technology run afoul with no human available to intercede. I thought it was brilliant on it's own merits. Yes I was entertained, but also saw the mirror image of real life issues reflected back at me.

Who among us has not been on interminable hold for some less than logical reason where our sanity all most gives out waiting? How many can attest to the utter failure of technology to deliver when most needed? This hit on many points in hilarious style.

Strong 8 from me. .

The second season is a trainwreck of a season and this is maybe the worst episode of any series in the world.

I am the only person in this house who loves animation . This series is pretty incredible imo.

I wanted to check out season 2 and requested that we all watch one episode . This was perfect everyone was amazed and riveted !

We had fun watching it and I have a new appreciation for this expression of the medium.

I typically do not prefer this type of animation ( weird looking cartoonish people ) but this was excellent; her dog adorable (despite myself ) and her plight relatable lol The story was super fun and cute I dare say .

The stories chosen for this series are are far less important than the animation to me , so when they do lineup beautifully it's a win !