Over its first two seasons, Love, Death and Robots has made good on its name by offering myriad animated shorts spanning sci-fi and horror — and occasionally both at the same time. It’s been bloody and visceral but also frequently uneven. For every smart treatise about the nature of humanity, there was a gorefest that was bloody and shocking and little else. But with volume 3, we get arguably the strongest collection yet: nine genre shorts without a weak link among them.
Perhaps the most impressive thing about the third season is how varied the shorts, which range from seven to 21 minutes long, are. My personal favorite is The Very Pulse of the Machine, directed by Emily Dean, which follows an astronaut stranded on Jupiter’s moon Io. As…