David Fincher discusses the most visually stunning episode from Love, Death + Robots Season 4 

Love, Death + Robots recently premiered with its fourth season and 10 new animated shorts on May 15, 2025. While all 10 of the animated shorts from the show are exceptionally immersive, one of the most visually stunning episodes among them is the third episode, titled Spider Rose.

The episode, from executive producer of the series, David Fincher, and director of the episode, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, is set in the same universe as Episode 6 of the third volume, titled Swarm. The episode revolves around the cyborg Spider Rose, whose only reason to live is her passion for revenge against Jude, who killed her husband and her fellow crew members.

Here's what David Fincher and Jennifer Yuh Nelson had to say about this episode in an exclusive Netflix Behind The Scenes video.

David Fincher on one of the most visually stunning episodes in the fourth volume of Love, Death + Robots

Episode 3 from Volume 4 of Love, Death + Robots, 'Spider Rose,' is adapted from a short story of the same name by Bruce Sterling, set in the same universe as Swarm, which was directed by Tim Miller. The episode follows Spider Rose, a cyborg who witnessed her family die and is on a quest to get revenge on Jade, who killed her crew members and her husband in front of her eyes.

She has gone through a great loss and is consumed by her loneliness as she stays alone, unable to move forward. David Fincher reveals in the exclusive BTS video that Spider Rose is one of the most visually stunning episodes from Love, Death + Robots:

"Spider Rose is just stunning. You look at it, and you just think, they can't do this any other way, and it shouldn't be done any other way."

Nelson, in this clip released by Netflix, talks about the episode from Love, Death + Robots and how Rose's emotions were so beautifully animated from raw footage of Emily O'Brien's impressive work for the episode.

"One of the things that's so beautiful about Emily is that her face is so translucent with her emotions. You can see her think about it, find it, and then it just glows from her face. And the animators stared at that footage, and it was so inspirational for them to try and get there with their animation, try and capture what she's doing."

Nelson also goes on to emphasize the animators' skills in Blur for this Love, Death + Robots episode:

"All of it had to be animated with that [zero gravity] in mind, it really comes down to just really really good animators...They're not boxtickers, they don't just say 'okay, it's good enough', they're just savage about making things great."

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All 10 episodes of Love, Death + Robots Season 4 are now available to stream on Netflix.

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