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Netflix’s ‘Love Death and Robots’ Is Hit, Miss and Extremely NSFW

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Interesting. It reminds me of Animatrix - separate animations each in different style, but somehow related to one subject.

Probably an American author, since half his general review is about nudity and no comment on the (often gory) super violence in some of these episodes. I do mostly agree on the favourite episodes though.

"Episode 3: Three Robots – A genuinely funny short about three robots touring a post-apocalyptic world trying to understand what humans did with things like cats and hamburgers before they went extinct. Solidly written."

Uh, yeah. This is your mileage in the act of varying. I found it not funny and not very well written, which was somewhat unexpected---it's John Scalzi's.

Agreed. While I liked the premise, I thought the execution and 'humor' was very weak.

You probably shouldn't be watching Netflix at work anyway.

I've always wondered about this use of "not safe for work". Is watching other videos fine at your job? The qualifier "safe for work" is extremely culture dependent.

In this context, it’s more of “you wouldn't talk about this at the watercooler”

Alternatively, getting caught watching soccer is one thing, getting caught watching porn is another. NSFW would be the latter kind of catch...

Yeah, but this isn't porn, it's just stories that feature some nudity. No idea how exploitative it is, although if they try to insert it everywhere, it's probably at least somewhat exploitative.

Still, that won't mean it's not going to be talked about at the watercooler; Game of Thrones definitely was, and that had plenty of nudity.

You ever see that meme of a dad walking in on his son playing video games, just as it cutscenes to something embarrassing (particularly when seen out of context)? I assume the show is basically that — its difficult to interpret well when glimpsed out of context (like when you’re caught at work), even if, in-context, its clearly not that bad.

The nudity is, if not exploitative, then certainly very gratuitous. It could easily be toned down and even removed in most cases without in changing the overall story in any way.

Working in gamedev, I've seen a lot of coworkers watch video at work.

Sometimes it's market research, sometimes it's listening to player feedback, sometimes it's a lunch break or after hours, sometimes it's background filler mostly there for the audio while they model or texture, ...

Good, neutral and didn't care for? So, good neutral and neutral? Or is that millennial-speak for good, neutral and bad? Lol

I don't get your confusion. There are lots of things that I don't care for without that making them bad. Certainly in the case of Love Death and Robots I'd say that none of the episodes where bad, even though there are quite a few that I didn't particularly enjoy or thought where kind of dumb.

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