"Raised by wolves" continues to be a masterclass in suspense. There isn't a scene, especially featuring the female lead, that is not unnerving to some degree. The calm and silent moments that dominate this episode show the success of what has been a very slow buildup.
You don't believe in the peace, you don't trust the good things that happen, just like you learned to fear the smile of "Mother" more than anything on this harsh and cold planet.
And while every moment in the colony shines that way, the track of the religious survivors, of course through the desert, full of visions and voices and omens starts to pull away from that. While they are certainly needed as an opposing force, adding some more shades of grey in the morale structure of the narrative that obviously has no true protagonist or antagonist, they have yet come to life as characters of their own.
They continue to be little more than a mirror image right now, up to the point where their religious leader is a man of science finding religion, while the leader of the science camp starts to become religious while finding herself, a product of science. Unfortunately it is a lot more interesting to write and think about it than actually watching it.
Their quite typicial human problems and drama pale in comparison, and with the on-the-nose biblical symbolism of their journey their armor starts to look like cheap crusader costumes to me. In a narrative that so far doesn't really have a sense of direction they seem like little more than yet one more diversion. Let's hope that this is going somewhere, for them, and for the viewer.
