Love, Death & Robots

TV Shows Like Love, Death & Robots

If you like Love, Death & Robots, here are 11 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.

Netflix · Animation · Love, Death & Robots is likely renewed

Love, Death & Robots works because it refuses to commit to a single tone for longer than twenty minutes. One episode is a gory military nightmare, the next is a quiet meditation on loneliness, the next is a filthy joke with a punchline that lands harder than it has any right to. The animation styles shift just as dramatically, from photorealistic CGI to hand-drawn to motion-capture hybrids. That variety is the whole point, and it attracts a very specific kind of viewer: someone who wants animation taken seriously as a medium for adult storytelling, and who has no patience for filler.

The best shows like Love, Death & Robots

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    1. Robot Chicken

    If you love that Love, Death & Robots has no interest in sustaining a single idea longer than it needs to, Robot Chicken operates on the same short-burst philosophy. It is sillier and far less interested in horror or science fiction, but it shares the adult animation DNA and the commitment to doing something weird and moving on quickly. Think of it as the comedy end of the same anthology impulse.

    Stream on HBO Max Amazon Channel, YouTube TV, Adult Swim, HBO Max

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    2. Solar Opposites

    Also animation · shares the adult animation theme

    Stream on Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, Netflix Standard with Ads

    Ended0%
  3. Happy Tree Friends poster

    3. Happy Tree Friends

    Also animation · shares the gore theme

    Stream on Crunchyroll Amazon Channel

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  4. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners poster

    4. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

    Cyberpunk: Edgerunners hits many of the same notes as the best episodes of Love, Death & Robots: a grimy cyberpunk world, real violence with real consequences, and a story that does not flinch when things go wrong. The anime style is gorgeous and the dystopian setting is fully realized. If the darker, more tragic sci-fi episodes of Love, Death & Robots are your favorites, this one is the most direct path forward.

    Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

    Renewed100%
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    5. Secret Level

    Secret Level is the most structurally similar show on this list, an adult animated anthology where each episode drops you into a different world and a different visual style. The video game source material means the worlds are already richly built, which lets each short focus on story and spectacle. Fans of Love, Death & Robots who miss the feeling of not knowing what genre they are about to enter will find that same surprise here.

    Stream on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads

    Likely Renewed72%

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Fans of the show tend to have a high tolerance for darkness and a real appetite for the weird. They are not looking for comfort viewing. They want something that might disturb them, or make them laugh at something they probably should not laugh at, or drop them into a fully realized world and then yank them out of it before they are ready to leave. A short runtime is not a problem for this audience; it is actually a feature. They would rather have ten minutes of something sharp than forty minutes of something padded.

The shows recommended here all share at least one strand of DNA with Love, Death & Robots, though they pull in different directions. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is the closest tonal match, a brutal and beautiful anime that lives in the same neon-soaked, body-modification-obsessed corner of science fiction. Secret Level scratches the anthology itch directly, with short animated stories that each drop you into a different world. Robot Chicken is much sillier but shares the same love of adult animation as a delivery system for jokes and ideas that would not survive in any other format. Helluva Boss commits hard to dark comedy and workplace absurdism, with more character work than you might expect from a show about imp assassins. Krapopolis is the lightest of the bunch, a family comedy dressed in Greek mythology, but it has the same willingness to mix genres and tones that makes Love, Death & Robots so restless and fun.

None of these shows are perfect replacements, which is fine because Love, Death & Robots is not really replaceable. What they offer instead are different facets of the same sensibility: animation that earns its adult rating, stories that take strange premises seriously, and a general refusal to be boring.

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Frequently asked

What is the most popular show like Love, Death & Robots?
Robot Chicken is the most popular show similar to Love, Death & Robots in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
Are shows like Love, Death & Robots still on the air?
Of the 11 shows similar to Love, Death & Robots listed here, 1 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Love, Death & Robots?
The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.