I'm bumping this thread because my love of animation keeps bringing me back to it. I want to see what more other people can do within the medium and, being given free reign on Netflix, what the outcomes are.
After three seasons of this show, it's still the same kind of stuff. The fallback is on gratuitous gore, violence, and gross-out humor with a smidge of condescension. I take nothing away from the animation, animating is hard, tedious work; but writing, editing, and direction are entirely different skill sets of their own that also need note. A lot of these shorts are from working animators and you can see where they really lack in other disciplines. Kill Team Kill was the first of these 10 minute shorts I had to skip 3 minutes in. It is embarrassingly juvenile and sophomoric; like if you asked a 13 year old what an "adult animation" would be, it would be this.
There's only two shorts in this season I would call "interesting" or even "okay," but I can't help but think if the result in all the shorts feeling the same is a consequence of people working in the animation business in the West, or if it isn't the culture built up in the business itself. I'd like to see what an animation team from the Middle-East, South America, or ever-reliable Japan would produce just given the theme of the show "love/death/robots" and 10-18 minutes to do whatever. It just seems that there is a huge discrepancy between what is considered "mature" and "adult."