‘Love, Death & Robots’ focuses on storytelling first, with most episodes prioritizing inventive plots, character development, and speculative concepts over identity politics. The anthology format allows for a wide variety of narratives, rarely feeling like ideology trumps story. Forced representation is minimal and most characters, regardless of background, are given meaningful arcs and flaws.

While some episodes reinterpret classical themes (like masculinity, heroism, and family), the show doesn't aggressively undermine tradition. It does experiment with gender roles, some female leads are highly competent, but it doesn’t present masculinity as inherently negative or subvert culture with every episode. There’s an even spread of traditional and non-traditional depictions.

‘Love, Death & Robots’ presents a range of perspectives. While some episodes have a modern sensibility, many exist outside current ideological trends, with dystopian, nihilistic, or simply bizarre storylines. Sincere representations of ‘alternate’ worldviews do appear; anyone looking for uniform woke messaging will be disappointed.