Published Aug 20, 2026, 7:56 PM EDT
A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he’s an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne from a misspent youth of watching monster movies on TV, perusing the sun-faded goods at the local video rental shop, and staining his fingers with ink from the Video Movie Guide. Areas of interest include science fiction, film noir, horror flicks, ’70s disaster pictures, Bond movies, ’90s action, giant robots, dinosaurs, super heroes, and the exuberantly schlocky output of Cannon Films. He also enjoys both Star Trek and Star Wars when they’re good, and maybe even more when they’re bad. As a Canadian, he also has a vested interest in Canadian movies and TV shows, especially the cheesier ones dubbed “Canuxploitation.”
An expert on Marvel Comics, he has also written for the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, and is a member of the Marvel Research Team. He can frequently be found pontificating on comic-book continuity or bemoaning the misfortunes of the Toronto Maple Leafs on his Twitter account.
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Get ready to saddle up, as Netflix rides into the Wild, Weird West with Bass X Machina. The new anime series is coming to the streaming service this fall, and turns a real chapter of American history into a rip-roaring fantastical adventure in a steampunk Wild West. It’s the latest anime series from the streamer, which has found great success in the genre. The series stars Brian Tyree Henry as Bass Reeves, a real-life historical figure who upheld the law as a U.S. Marshal in the Wild West and may have inspired the fictional Lone Ranger. He was recently the subject of Lawmen: Bass Reeves, a Taylor Sheridan-produced series that starred David Oyelowo as the title character; it was well-received by critics, but did not feature any cyborgs or steampunk automatons.
That’s not true of Bass X Machina; the new trailer shows off Henry’s Reeves as a veteran drawn back into serving his country as a bounty hunter, and taming a west full of hovering trains, steam-powered robots, and murderous owlhoots. This Reeves has a cybernetic right arm and eye-popping quick-draw skills with the left; he’ll need every advantage he can to take on his foes and remain human. The series will premiere on November 3.
Bass X Machina also features the voice talents of Janelle Monáe (Glass Onion) as Glory, Tati Gabrielle (The Last of Us) as Dana, Cree Summer (Abbott Elementary) as Ahni, Chaske Spencer (Dark Winds) as Lighthorse, Currie Graham (Reacher) as Rivenbark, and Starletta DuPois (One Battle After Another) as Etta. In addition to starring, Henry also serves as an executive producer on the series, alongside LeSean Thomas, Jennifer Wiley-Moxley, and Chad Handley. It is a production of Studio Mir, the South Korean studio that animated series like The Legend of Korra, Voltron: Legendary Defender, X-Men ‘97, and My Adventures With Superman.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
Animation has been one of Netflix’s growth areas in recent years, with much of it in the anime genre. New seasons of the popular series Blue Eye Samurai and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners are in the works. The streamer is also capitalizing on its well-received live-action One Piece adaptation by producing The One Piece, a new animated adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s smash-hit manga series.
Bass X Machina will premiere on November 3, exclusively on Netflix. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.