772: The Compulsion of Art

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

With the guiding hand of Prof. Siracusa choosing the curriculum, we watch select animated shorts from the Netflix series “Love, Death + Robots.” John’s quest to find the perfect photorealistic CGI animation continues. Tony does his companions a solid if he’s ever killed on a moon. The others debate if they represent love, death, or robots. We try to reconnect with our inner pool-polishing robots. It’s a real team effort....

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0:00.0	The Inconparable, number 772, June 2025.
0:10.0	Welcome back, everybody to The Incomparable.
0:12.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:13.1	This episode is about a Netflix animated, mostly, anthology series called Love, Death.
0:22.7	I mean, it's all anthology, anthology.
0:25.4	You know, like, do you never know what you're going to get?
0:27.7	Love Death and Robots, sometimes those things are in there.
0:31.0	Other times it's other stuff.
0:32.9	Created by Tim Miller.
0:34.7	And I'm going to introduce my panel. We were instructed though, I have to start
0:40.8	by saying we were instructed to watch a representative, unclear sample of episodes of the 45 episodes
0:48.9	of varying links. It very much as an anthology, I would say almost of animated shorts.
0:57.4	Uh, by one John Syracusa.
0:58.9	John, welcome.
0:59.8	Thank you.
1:00.7	You're in charge.
1:03.1	What does this sound like?
1:04.1	A podcast, I hope.
1:05.6	I hope so. Joining me on this journey where we watched things assigned to us by John
1:10.5	Syracusa are the following
1:11.6	wonderful people. Brian Hamilton is here. Hello.
1:15.2	Wait, you're telling me this show has love, death, and robot? No way. Not all three in one thing.
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