Can't Stop

I never thought I'd be this let down by Love, Death & Robots, but Season 4 kicks off with a total misfire. Episode 1 isn't really an episode at all - it's just a glorified Red Hot Chili Peppers music video. Seriously.

There's no story, no characters, no dialogue, no twist - none of the things that made the previous seasons so memorable. It's just a four-minute CGI trip set to a track that, while decent on its own, has absolutely no place masquerading as part of an anthology known for groundbreaking animation and provocative sci-fi.

I get that the show likes to experiment, but this feels lazy and self-indulgent. It's not "artsy" or "bold." It's a bait-and-switch. We waited years for a new season, and this is how they open it?

If this is a sign of what's to come in Season 4, then we're in for a rough ride. Here's hoping this is just a one-off stumble - because right now, this show looks like it's losing its edge.

While I'm adittedly not a massive RHCP fan, I do like some of their output. The problem here isn't an issue of liking or disliking their work. It's that this episode was misguided from the very start. It offered us nothing that a team of animators working for a music video programming network couldn't have conceptualized in a half-hour discussion with the Chili's legal team over a serving of late in some boardroom. It's basically advertising on an MTV scale. It was pointless in the context of "Love, Death & Robots" since, unless Flea dropped dead of a heroin overdose just as it faded to black, it had none of those thing.

For what it was, it was fine, and I'm sure hardcore RHCP fans will enjoy it. It just made no sense as a LDR episode.

Listen, I'm not saying that this music video is not well made, or that the music is not good. What I am saying is that as an episode of Love, death and robots, it fails. Might as well make a video of someone baking a cake, or playing volleyball. I don't understand why the creators included this in the new 10 episode season 4. It's a misuse of talent and creativity, and has nothing to do with Love, death and robots. For us viewers having waited a long time for a new season, there is disappointment and only thing on my mind now is I hope the other nine episodes make up for it. Hopefully they will.

This was such an incredibly lazy episode. No imagination, a wasted effort. What was the point of it? Was there a clever hidden meaning that I failed to understand somehow?

No idea who signed off on that as the first episode but after 3 years off screen, they couldn't have done a worse reintroduction. If that was my first time watching this show it would've probably been the last time too. Absolute worst episode of the show so far!

Seriously though, a Red Hot Chili Peppers puppet music video? Save that for YouTube! Luckily therse episodes are so short or I probably would've turned it off at this point to avoid wasting my time.

I really enjoy the Red Hot chilli peppers but why is this even an episode? It really doesn't fit with the overall themes the show brings up and other than just liking this song it doesn't really do anything for me. This could just be a cool music video which it basically is. For that reason, I just cannot rate it very high because it really just shouldn't be here at all. If you like the band, I definitely say give it a watch tho.

P. S. David Fincher please stop spending your time on this if you can travel back in time so that you can work on another movie. I understand that this could be a pretty fun getaway that's easy but even if it only took a month that is one month too long.