‘Love, Death + Robots Vol. 2’ review: Upping the ante with jarring themes, and Michael B. Jordan

The highly-anticipated second volume of David Fincher’s ‘Love Death + Robots’ stylishly dissects ideas of obession, isolation, class conflicts and genocide in wildly creative ways

Eight shorts. Eight animation styles. Thirteen directors. Eighty-two minutes. That is all it takes to enjoy Love, Death + Robots, David Fincher’s adult animated series of which the first season in March 2019 made such a splash, reviewers and fans alike are still unravelling the heavy themes of misogyny, death, time loops, and technology to this day. . The new set of short films come from filmmakers around the world: ‘Pop Squad’ (Jennifer Yuh Nelson), ‘Life Hutch’ (Alex Beaty), ‘Ice’ (Robert Valley), ‘The Tall Grass’ (Simon Otto), ‘Automated Customer Service’ (Meat Dept), ‘All Through the House’ (Elliot Dear), ‘The Drowned Giant’ (Tim Miller who gave us the first season’s ‘Ice Age’) and ‘Snow in the Desert’ (Leon Berelle, Dominique Boidin, Remi Kozyra, Maxime Luere who gave us the first season’s ‘Beyond the Aquila Rift’).