The Drowned Giant

This episode didn't really have a climax like the other episodes, but that's okay, I guess. I like that they don't give us an explanation to why there's a giant human washed up on the beach, because we don't need one. Instead of trying to explain it, the episode shows us what it's like for a human corpse to rot, which was very interesting. I really liked the ending, and how the giant's parts were being used all across the town. A somewhat anticlimactic finale, but still a good episode.

'The Drowned Giant (2021)' is about an introspective scientist who travels to a seaside town in order to see the water-logged body of a beached giant for himself. It's essentially a commentary on the way in which tragedies become spectacles, spectacles become commodities and, eventually, commodities become valueless. The carcass of the large man is treated by the public as not only an oddity to ogle but also as a sort of amusement park sideshow to clamber on, take selfies with and, even, deface. Eventually, as the flesh begins to rot from the body's bones, people start to take souvenirs. The protagonist never engages in such behaviour, visiting the site often but viewing the giant in a much more sympathetic light. Through narration, he ponders the existence of such a large and previously unknown creature, before drifting onto other subjects that are decidedly more existential. Although not all the much happens over the course of the narrative, it often achieves an odd kind of serenity that makes it effortless to watch. It's strangely engaging because of this, even if it isn't massively exciting. It's a nice change of pace from most of the other entries in 'Love, Death & Robots (2019-)'. 6/10.

An episode that is throughout its duration a very deep reflection on life and on how everything is fleeting and no matter how big and important it is, everything is forgotten even if sometimes small things are kept as memories. One of the heaviest and most profound episodes of the entire series.

This is the exact story I read as a kid, a loooong time ago. Original publish date was 1964. It was nicely done visually but I think the script was an exact dcopy of what I read in J. G. Ballard story. I find it very disturbing that I watched and rewatched the credits and the beginning and saw no mention of J. G. Ballard. I don't know how this isn't plagiarism. I'm gonna look and see if I can find the original story but some of the lines I distinctly remember word for word. Maybe it's so old that the copyright statute is expired. I still find it slimy that they did not even mention the original author and claimed it as their own story.

This episode is a slow burner about how inhumane the average human can be, and how quickly we can move on from something. At least that's my interpretation. This isn't buried under piles of obscurity or pretentious dialogue, just a simple, interesting idea that I enjoyed. I can completely understand why people wouldn't like this episode, since it's very different to the others, and I don't see myself rewatching this as much as the others but I like it. 8/10.

Oh and people are taking the story waaay too literally, obviously this wouldn't really play out how it did, but this episode isn't about that.