Best short?

Kino all around
Pretentious

Yeah, and the entire rest of the show is boring braindead actionwank

new season better not have these guys again. Preachy shit.

Another vote for Bad Travelling. It's the longest but the one I actually want to rewatch every now and then

It will. But no one is forcing you to watch that episode.

Aquila Rift and it's not close.
See what happens when Alastair fucking Reynolds get to write it and the directors just listen to him.

You only like it for the raunchy sex scene.

you make it sound like that's a bad thing

I mean yeah, who doesn't want to fugg a cute alien spidergirl?

I liked that one, she was nice
anyone lost in hyperspace could only hope to be so lucky

Best short?

talking crab

Favorite short?

sentient yoghurt

Swarm was pretty good. Humanity is definitely screwed after that one

The Secret War

all the other shit is justified by bad traveling existing.

Night of the Mini dead is their best

That was pretty cute.

Bad Travelling.

Bad traveling for sure. I also liked the spider monster giving the guy a good simulation one.

Bad Traveling had a cool boat and a spooky crab monster sure, but let's be honest: the protag was a cowardly piece of shit who needed to kill off the crew so he could survive but used the stupid vote to justify it and feel good about himself. He'd have never made it without killing them all off.

Midwit take

everyone on the ship, except the (new) captain, is a coward who'd sacrifice hundreds/thousands to live

this makes the (new) captain a coward for playing them all, even playing the fool, to engineer a situation where everyone on the ship is killed

the protag was a cowardly piece of shit who needed to kill off the crew so he could survive but used the stupid vote to justify it and feel good about himself.

Did you even watch the episode? The protag was the only person on the ship who didn't want to take the crab to the island with more humans.

midwit can't refute it so just calls others midwits

How was he cowardly lol?

Midwits conflate cunning with cowardice

i like how some blogger managed to coin a term that would only ever describe the people who use it

The problem with Swarm is that the body horror feels sterile compared to the story it's based on. Like everything needed a layer of slime on it.

best

There are a lot of good ones, especially in the 1st series, but lets be honest the variety of styles and themes kinda makes choosing "the best" impossible (even though "The Secret War" eerily foreshadowed what's happening in cuckraine)

favorite

But I'd choose "The Tall Grass" because it was the most cozy, perfectly fit its duration, and although a story as old as time, it received treatment like never before

(even though "The Secret War" eerily foreshadowed what's happening in cuckraine)

Ahh sweet, schizoposting.

slavs against slavs

news seeping out about all kinds of occult factions acting as special units, including human sacrifices

the meat cube (from before AI slop...), well documented on Anon Babble and Anon Babble

Russians aren't human tho.

Bad Travelling is clearly the at the forefront as the best short.

Most are shit, but Bad Traveling is the best.

Can't believe we're almost into the fourth season of this, anyone know how many episodes we're getting? Last one didn't have many.

If they are or are not is beside the issue

Is it really just an animated version of Black Mirror?

Fuck crabs :'(

Can't do human sacrifice with them.

That's a gross oversimplification

thinking that sacrificing ukrainians is beneath ukrainians

Good job offending the country you shill for lol

Pop Squad was genuinely disturbing in how nonchalant it was about child murder.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Russia could get invaded by literal hordes of demons from hell, and I'd still rather shill for the demons.

risks his life (potentially dying to the crew AND the crab) to save thousands of innocents

haha what a coward

I wouldn't know, but I've seen it described in more or less those exact words while looking for shows similar to Black Mirror to watch.

What did they do to you anon

Why didn't he just light the oil fire immediately?

Aaaaanooon

Given that they are probably the only anthology series that weren't written by a comittee of overweight post-menopausal women, I can see the logic of the recommendation

The one with the naked women

I'm a Finn.

So? You defeated them in WW2 and they don't have any reason to invade you or the baltics unless the British ans French bait you into attacking them first

That was 80 years ago. And they didn't have any reason to invade Ukraine either, but made one up.

Don't mind me just pirating this turtle.

it's not away from anyone

Man, does anyone have it worse than baby turtles? I hear maybe 1% of a clutch survives to adulthood.

Good joke anon I almost believed you were a human

The Secret War was the only that actually felt like a condensed movie with a beginning, middle and end.

Most short scifi like these aren't meant to have endings. Like Outer Limits, they tend to leave you at "oh shit!" moments of dread or despair

sloppy writing is a virtue

starcraft farmers

shit was fun

Was this also by the Bad Travelling people?

ctrl f "jibaro"

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Absolutely shameful

All short stories with some moralistic "message".
Sure boomers, le future is le bad, now die of old age.

Boomers will probably outlive gen z and alpha in the post-internet world

It was awful. Poo in plate armor with some ugly gook having a seizure in a lake?