While a quick summary of Raised by Wolves would be sufficient if it were made up simply by the phrase bovine manure, a more thorough review is likely in order, so as to, hopefully, save even one person from watching it. This is because, in a spectacular display of lost opportunities, Raised by Wolves manages to miss both the Religion vs Science angle and the display of any sort of coherent sociological human behaviour.


Characters are monolithic, being either religious and attributing everything to the series’ deity, Sol, or conversely, being atheist and possessing practically no spirituality. Basic human behaviours and needs are not present. In a series that supposedly takes place on a far away planet, humans are portrayed as having no conscious understanding of their isolation or frailty, behaving simply as they would if they were living on a planet populated by billions of people, killing each other with ease and for trivial reasons.


Survival strategies, reproductive strategies, building a wall – all these things do not exist in this series, touched on only very briefly in the first couple of episodes and then forgotten forever. This in a series possessing two androids that need not sleep, who could have built a veritable fortress in the years this season supposedly spans. Crowned by an abundance of errors of logic, the grandest example of which must be the [spoiler]series’ finale decision to plunge into the planet’s core, in order to kill an infant flying worm (yes…) instead of simply chopping its head off[/spoiler], the series delivers on no fronts.


Except perhaps the actor’s performance, which is admittedly good, especially Abubakar Salim’s and Travis Fimmel’s. This is not enough to save this series though. It’s rubbish.