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Before saying anything about the show, I’d like to take a moment to stop and appreciate Liam Vickers, the creator of Murder Drones. Sure, the show is fast-paced and hectic to follow at moments, but the intricate storyline and flashy animation make up for the chaos. The focal point of the story is everyone’s worst nightmare, a rogue AI trying to destroy everything humanity’s built, and it’s hard to pick a side in this. Cult-like human doctors and corporations, a crucifix with a Usb patch, and cannibalistic robots—the show has got it all. So here we are, discussing the latest series, now streaming on Prime Video.

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Murder Drones is set on an exoplanet called Copper 9, where the Absolute Solver, a rogue AI, wiped all human life from the planet. The only things still moving on the planet’s...

Glitch Productions, the animation studio behind YouTube hit The Amazing Digital Circus, has scooped up another licensing deal.

Last September, Glitch–opened in 2017 by brothers Kevin and Luke Lerdwichagul—signed a deal with Netflix, giving the streamer permission to air new episodes of Tadc. The unique thing about their deal? Glitch didn’t have to pull Tadc off YouTube to make it a Netflix exclusive. In fact, new episodes would debut on YouTube and Netflix on the same day. Basically, Netflix serves as an extra distribution channel for the show, while getting to pad out its adult animation collection.

And now, Glitch has signed a similar deal with Amazon–not for The Amazing Digital Circus (as far as we know), but for several titles including Murder Drones, an eight-episode series Glitch published on YouTube from 2021 to 2024.

Similar in tone to Tadc, Murder Drones follows Uzi Doorman, an angsty teenage worker...

The 8-episode animated web series “Murder Drones”, created by Liam Vickers for Glitch Productions.“…is captivating audiences with its unique blend of humor, horror and survival in a frozen post-apocalyptic world”, now streaming on Prime Video:

“…’Uzi’, a rebellious ‘worker drone’ on the post-apocalyptic planet ‘Copper 9’, forms an unlikely alliance with two ‘Disassembly Drones’ (‘N’ and ‘V’) tasked with eliminating the remaining worker drones.

“The series explores the consequences of a catastrophic event that wiped out human life, leaving the autonomous robots to navigate a harsh and dangerous environment…”

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Following a curious post by one of its lead voice actors, the wait for the release of Murder Drones Episode 8 looks as though it may finally be coming to an end. 

The hit black comedy series comes from Australian funnyman and online creative Liam Vickers. Its first seven episodes are available now on YouTube, with the promise of an eighth and final episode on the way to round out its first season.

The online web series follows a colony of worker drones living on a faraway planet where all its human inhabitants have died thanks to a cataclysmic planetary collapse. 

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