Raised by Wolves
2020
Original language: English
- sci-fi & fantasy
- drama
The story
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.
What it’s like
Cold, saturated color carries most of this series: sickly teal and bruised violet skies over a planet of dense green jungle, rust-red sand and brutalist concrete, with long lenses that flatten distance and make every figure look small against the land. Interiors are cramped and sterile, lit by hard white fluorescents, while night scenes slip into murky, underexposed blues where only a torch or a sliver of moonlight picks out faces. The camera tends toward slow, deliberate movement and stiff symmetrical framing, and the score is a low drone of synth and choral swells that rises without warning. Its vibe is unsettled and austere, a dread that builds slowly rather than breaking open. The pace is measured, with long stretches of quiet interrogation between sudden, sharp bursts of action. Violence is frequent and often graphic, with bloody injuries, killings and some body horror, and there are disturbing scenes involving children and religious cruelty, so it lands heavily rather than gently. Sexual content appears but is not central. Its emotional core follows two artificial beings learning to feel and to doubt their makers, set against a fanatical human faith. It suits viewers who want philosophical sci-fi with a bleak, uneasy atmosphere, not a comfort watch.
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