Love, Death & Robots to hit Netflix on May 14

Tim Miller’s Love, Death and Robots (LDR) is back to thrill audiences with a second season that will stream on Netflix from May 14. The seven-episode anthology series will combine elements from dystopian and utopian science fiction with fantasy storytelling.

The official trailer of the upcoming season of the animated series was released on April 19. The first season of this animated series took years to complete but fans did not have to wait too long for the second season. In fact, the third season is also expected to drop in 2022.

When Miller and Oscar nominee David Fincher pitched the series to Netflix years ago, adult animation series were still risky projects. Netflix did not possess the right data to judge if a series like LDR would work. The streaming giant, however, took a leap of faith and was rewarded.

The series is a re-imagining of Miller and Fincher’s animated sci-fi film Heavy Metal, which released in 1981. LDR is a collection of animated short stories that transcend genres and blend sci-fi, fantasy, horror and comedy. The series, often described as an animated alternative to Black Mirror, explores alternate histories, the life of robots in a post-apocalyptic city and more.

Speaking to IGN, Miller and the show’s supervising director Jennifer Yuh Nelson revealed what fans should expect from the second season of LDR. “The first season of LDR was really groundbreaking for a lot of people. And people saw that and thought, ‘This is possible’; that level of beauty and quality and just subversive stories was possible. As a fan, that's something I’ve always wanted to do,” she said.

With one season around the corner and another to premiere soon, Miller and his team have proved that adult animation has tremendous scope. Though LDR features plotlines and scenes that require viewer discretion, it was never the creators’ intention to go out of the way to include these elements. Their goal was to find a balance of stories that are all unique.

When the pandemic hit, a new challenge was faced by Miller and Nelson. Though animation is an area in entertainment that seldom got affected by the pandemic, it was a few scenes in the episodes that may have pertained to the pandemic that troubled them. This is when Netflix stepped in and supported the creators entirely in their desire to go ahead with LDR.