Love, Death & Robots is one of those rare shows where I wind up raising my score for each new season and, true to the show's MO of giving small creators the floor to push the boundaries of CG (It's more of a variety show than a strict TV series), the latest one contains some of the most genuinely fascinating sequences I've seen in years. While I have a soft spot for the very small zombies, the Scottish man with the peculiar rat problem, and certainly the artful, Valerian et Laureline-esque voyage across the seemingly-sentient dunes of Io, none of the new shorts moved/disturbed/haunted me quite like Alberto Mielgo's Jibaro. Mixing stylization with realism, it's one of the most transporting (yet timely) retellings of folklore I've seen in years and certainly the most memorable -- it's one of those pieces of visual media where I clearly and distinctly still remember sounds and images from it; the shrieks of the golden siren, the helpless knights in their enchanted dance, et cetera.
As someone whose childhood revolved around animated shorts an inordinate amount (what with his dad being a VFX programmer who always downloaded the latest tech demos after a business trip to SIGGRAPH), I'm just really happy that this even exists. And if I must regard it as "a TV show", 'tis fast becoming my favorite one on Netflix.
