Raised by Wolves (2020)
Sacrifice for survival.
After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 3 September 2020 |
| Status | Canceled |
| Genre | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
| Created by | Aaron Guzikowski |
| Starring | Travis Fimmel, Amanda Collin and Winta McGrath |
| Seasons | 2 seasons, 18 episodes |
| Episode length | about 50 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 15 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.5/10 |
Where to watch Raised by Wolves
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| Country | Streaming on (price a month) |
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| Australia | Foxtel |
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What kind of watch this is
Aaron Guzikowski built a sci-fi drama on a simple, sharp premise: two atheist androids must raise human children on a dead planet. The hook is the friction between their programmed neutrality and the arrival of a devout human order. It is a 15-hour commitment across 2 seasons, which feels like a long time to watch robots agonize over theology.
What the critics said
The first season found a middle path. Rotten Tomatoes reported a 74% approval rating from 58 critics, while Metacritic gave it a 64. The consensus praised the imagery but noted a lack of emotional warmth. Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly worried the momentum drags, while John Anderson of The Wall Street Journal called the visual style great.
Season 2 improved the numbers. Rotten Tomatoes jumped to 86% based on 14 reviews, and Metacritic scored it 84. The consensus described the gamble as paying off with a wholly unique vision.
How it did with audiences
Raised by Wolves landed on TMDB with a user score of 7.5 out of 10. That is a solid number for a sci-fi experiment that promised to deconstruct religious iconography through the lens of synthetic biology. Viewers clearly found the premise intriguing, even if the execution kept shifting gears. It is a score that suggests the show earned its complexity, though perhaps not its confusion.
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- “Raised by Wolves (American TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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