Season 4 - 10 episodes (2025 May 16)
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Created by: Tim Miller
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jake Johnson
Rated: TV-MA
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Plot
In this animated anthology series for adults, the shorts span the genres of science fiction and fantasy to horror and comedy while presenting a variety of animation formats from traditional 2D to photo-real 3D CGI. Each segment is about ten minutes long, created by different teams of filmmakers from around the world.
Verdict
This season isn't bad, but most of the episodes felt like only an introduction. Each episode left me wanting more of a story and that what I got was incomplete. Episode are short, so you never get bored, but there are no episodes that reach the heights of Season 1's Zima Blue.
It depends.
Review
Part of the appeal is that this is a collection of shorts. It's difficult to get bored with short episodes, and this provides a range of animation styles and stories. This season's episodes are so short it's difficult to get but so much out of them. It's more an idea, tech demo, or one note joke.
The first episode is basically a Red Hot Chili Peppers music video that's animated in CGI so they and the crowd look like marionettes. It's a cool music video, but not much more than that.
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| E1 - Can't Stop |
Episode two is a hyper violent alien invasion shot with a tilt shift effect that makes it look miniature. It's violent and comedic with a neat perspective.
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| E2 - Close Encounters of the Mini Kind |
The third episode features an android bent on revenge who finds solace while revisiting memories through a new pet.
I'm not even sure what the fourth episode is. A turf war turns into an alliance to fight gods, giant children, or something else completely.
With episode five a cat seeking world domination is limited by his status as a pet. That changes when his owners get a robot that learns to speak cat. It's cute, but it's just an introduction to a larger story. It has the best story thus far, but like so many of these shorts they don't offer a conclusion.
This sixth episode is a slight change. It's live action with CGI aliens. The aliens think that dolphins are the premiere being on Earth. We get a premise and a conflict but no resolution.
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| E6 - Golgotha |
The seventh episode is on of the betters ones. It's gladiatorial games with dinosaurs for rich people's entertainment. Even then, I still wanted more from this episode.
Episode eight looks like traditional animation with WWII era planes and monsters.
In episode nine we get to see what smart home appliances are thinking. This episode has the least amount of story, other than the Red Hot Chili Peppers music video, it's just a collection of thoughts.
The final episode is a cat versus the devil.
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| E10 - For He Creeps |
While I enjoy this show, this season felt like ideas instead of developed shorts. Often shorts push a twist ending due to the brevity, but this season didn't even do much of that. The brevity of the episodes works against it. Two episodes don't even have a story. I enjoy the show, but this is not the best season.
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