On paper, the new adult-animated anthology series Secret Level sounds great. Created by Deadpool director and Netflix's Love, Death & Robots creator Tim Miller, the new series from Amazon MGM Studios and Blur Studio (the visual effects company co-founded by Miller) applies a similar format to the Netflix animated anthology to popular games like Mega Man, Unreal Tournament, and Dungeons & Dragons. The reality, virtual, digital, or otherwise, is… complicated.
Secret Level ultimately suffers from the same problem that so frequently troubles all other anthology series regardless of whether they're animated and regardless of whether they're game adaptations. There are some truly stellar episodes, some real clunkers, and a fair amount of middling ones. Taken as a whole, it makes for an uneven experience with serious highlights that ultimately make up for the misses more often than not.
