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Eternal Butler has an interesting premise – a bunch of humanoid robots are created to live alongside and add value to the life of mankind, but problems crop up when they disobey their owners and start to veer away from the path that was originally laid out for them. This, of course, includes falling in love with humans.

The concept is stronger than the execution (expect some loopholes with the storytelling), but this series still promises plenty of interesting questions like: Can humanoid robots truly love another entity? What does it even mean to love, and can we still call this love if it can be reduced to a string of code?

But also, maybe don’t expect too much deep stuff. The series dances around the big questions but doesn’t explicitly tackle them head on. The storyline did very little to meaningfully untangle any profound questions, in part because it’s a short series but also because I suspect it was trying to do too much. I get it, it’s hard to do romance, action, sci-fi, existentialism and the future of mankind all at one go.

It’s a shame because extraordinary chemistry might have made this series score much higher.

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