Love, Death + Robots: 15 of the best episodes ranked from worst to best

2. “In Vaulted Halls Entombed”

To be quite honest, when this episode started, I honestly didn’t think it’d be such a mind[expletive] of a story.

What starts off as a seemingly normal war-filled story turns into an episode that’s like a rollercoaster for your brain. We start in the rough and rugged Afghan mountains, venturing into a cave system that is absolutely more than what it seems. We have prisoners of war, a team coming for the rescue, then we get a dose of weird and really deadly spider aliens. When we think it’s over, this episode tosses in a particularly spooky and favorite legend of mine: Cthulhu, referred to as the “Bound God” in the episode.

The ending of this episode still haunts me, and I refuse to spoil it here. Go watch it.

1. “Bad Travelling”

“Bad Travelling” is the best Love, Death & Robots episode to ever be released, period.

Inspired by a Neal Asher short story and brilliantly adapted by Andrew Kevin Walker, this episode takes us on a voyage so unreal, so hopeless, that the aftertaste of this episode still lingers with me.

As a crew endures being boarded by a Thanapod (a horrifying giant crab creature that can reanimate and use the dead to speak through the corpse and loves to have tons of teeny tiny baby giant crabs that love to eat human flesh) and battles his monstrous advances, the story takes a dark turn.

But this story is most definitely not just about survival. “Bad Travelling” dives deep into the deep and complex waters of human morality, exploring the disturbing extent to which individuals will go to do what needs to be done.

This story also hit very close to The Last Voyage of the Demeter, and I see a parallel between this story and the newly released masterpiece by Universal, based on Bram Stoke’s iconic novel Dracula.

And those are 15 of my all-time favorite Love, Death & Robots episodes. Ready for that rewatch while Netflix can’t decide when they want to drop the much-desired season 4 on us? I know I am.