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All 18 eps were available to me right away and I binged them in two different days (about half and half each day).

I guess I watched them in the basic order then? At least I think the eps came in the same order as they are listed.

Watched the first two, got about 3 mins into the third and just skipped to the fourth at my wife's request. First was visually amazing (although tried to eat pasta during it which...wasn't a good idea with the amount of bloodshed). Robot one was hilarious, Dracula was...interesting, and the Zerg Rush on the farm was awesome as well.

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Watched the first two, got about 3 mins into the third and just skipped to the fourth at my wife's request. First was visually amazing (although tried to eat pasta during it which...wasn't a good idea with the amount of bloodshed). Robot one was hilarious, Dracula was...interesting, and the Zerg Rush on the farm was awesome as well.

The one with the Robots proved what my dogs have always been telling me:

 Frazzled wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Watched the first two, got about 3 mins into the third and just skipped to the fourth at my wife's request. First was visually amazing (although tried to eat pasta during it which...wasn't a good idea with the amount of bloodshed). Robot one was hilarious, Dracula was...interesting, and the Zerg Rush on the farm was awesome as well.

The one with the Robots proved what my dogs have always been telling me:

Spoiler:

Cats will eventually try to kill us all.

I don't think its a big secret. My cat tells me that all the time.

Lucky 13 was one of my favorites.
The alternate history app or whatever was also kinda neat.

 privateer4hire wrote:
The alternate history app or whatever was also kinda neat.

Honestly, this was the only one I actively despised. It got repetitive and could have done a lot more with the premise, imo.

Loved "Three Robots", mostly because the cat looks exactly like my girlfriends.

 Crazy_Carnifex wrote:
Loved "Three Robots", mostly because the cat looks exactly like my girlfriends.

That's a very strange way to frame this. The cat looked like a cat and was male. If your girlfriends looked like the cat, must I assume they had four legs, a tail, were covered in fur and had deep suave masculine voice (and had opposable thumbs). Are you sure the words you were searching wasn't "behaved like the cat" (as in were murderous, self-centered creatures)?

He means: the cat shared a significant aesthetic association with the cat possessed by his female companion.

 Elbows wrote:
He means: the cat shared a significant aesthetic association with the cat possessed by his female companion.

Oh, he meant the cat looks exatly like his girlfriend's. Thank you for the clarification. English is a second language to me and, sometime, grammar errors really throw off my understanding of a text since I struggle to compensate for them by relying on phonetic alone. That makes a lot more sense and is a lot less bleak too.

sorry.

lol, well that's how I read it. Maybe he does have cats as girlfriends...no judgment! lol

The importance of one apostrophe...

Some of these were great as vignettes. However, some of them would have been excellent movies. The Secret War, for example.

When the Yogurt Took Over just makes me smile.

Watched them all and only liked a few: Three Robots, Suits, Lucky 13 and Blue Zima. Yogurt was also funny.

Suits in particular was damn good, gave off a nice Mechwarrior / StarCraft vibe, which made sense when I checked the cast and saw that the voice actor for Hank also played Tychus in SC2.

There's a lot of sex and nudity in there, is Netflix trying to one up HBO or something?

 BrookM wrote:
Watched them all and only liked a few: Three Robots, Suits, Lucky 13 and Blue Zima.

For me replace Zima Blue with The Secret War and pretty much the same.

Rosebuddy wrote:
That was the worst one, it's just an animated cards against humanity session complete with transphobia.

It was written by John Scalzi, so that's impossible.

Rosebuddy wrote:
One of the shorts that likely would've been much better if written and directed by women was Good Hunting.

Oh. You're one of those people, aren't you? The "X can only tell stories about X, and Y can only tell stories about Y" people. That's depressing.

Definitely marmite for me. Some I thought were really awesome (the first one and lucky 21) and others total trash (hitler timeline one, junkyard one).
Great animations all round though, just a pity some of the stories/plots sucked.

I really enjoyed, to varying degrees, pretty much all of these. I am quite fond of anthologies like these and can't wait to see more.

I think 3 Robots was my favorite in terms of story, but Lucky 13 was right up there too. The Witness was aesthetically my favorite, I think - it had that amazing visual appeal that Spider-verse had.

Some of the weaker ones would be The Dump and the shapeshifting werewolf one, I think.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:

Rosebuddy wrote:
That was the worst one, it's just an animated cards against humanity session complete with transphobia.

It was written by John Scalzi, so that's impossible.

Why would it be impossible for that guy to make something mildly transphobic (and pretty bad in my opinion). He did produced and wrote some good fiction work, but this little movie was pretty much the worst of the anthology.

Rosebuddy wrote:
One of the shorts that likely would've been much better if written and directed by women was Good Hunting.

Oh. You're one of those people, aren't you? The "X can only tell stories about X, and Y can only tell stories about Y" people. That's depressing.

I liked them overall. Big fan of the yogurt one, Lucky 13 and The Secret War (reminds me of the Resistance series). After going through several slow burn narrative series its nice having small one and done episodes.