Happiness

I described season one of "Raised by Wolves" as mixed and said that "I'll be back for season two, but it's more out of a sense of intrigue, rather than any love for the show". This second season hasn't assuaged of my fears about the long-term future for the series and I'm, if anything, more confused than I was a year ago.

As the family begin to integrate with the larger atheist settlement, Mother (Amanda Collin), in particular is mistrusted by the colonists. However, a bigger threat will quickly offer the opportunity to increase her standing. Marcus (Travis Fimmel) rescues some followers of Sol from the same settlement's authority. Though he offers proof of his divine orchestration, his desire to find the tree of knowledge is one he's willing to make sacrifices for.

To be honest, my review of this second season could almost be a copy and paste of my review of the first. It looks really good and there are some interesting ideas that are being explored within the series - but I still can't help but have the feeling that this is headed in a hundred different ways all at once, and that the weird stuff that happens is happening for the sake of it, rather than servicing some overall plot idea. If the show stays alive long enough to reach it's intended conclusion, then I'm not convinced that each of these bizarre turns will have any form of satisfactory explanation.

What's perhaps worse is that I'm not sure I care about any of the characters. I hate all the children, and I'm not sure that half of them really added to the plot, two of them have about six lines across the whole run and there's little consistency amongst the adults to stick too. So, I can't attach myself to any of the characters and the plot keeps throwing a random unexplained thing at me, so there's little to connect to there. I will say that this season was undoubtably creepier than the first. With the introduction of the grandmother character and the android with its face smashed in being particularly memorable.

I think I'll stick around, either to be proved right or be pleasantly surprised. I can see why it's so divisive though.

Started very good in season 1. Tho story was relatively clear.

Then it became slow and boring at second part of season 1.

Season 2 is very disjointed like they took 10 different ideas and threw them together without any clear direction.

The last couple episodes of season 2 are better.

But still there is no clear direction to where is this going.

To summarize whats going on: Earth is ruined by war, different survivors on an alien planet and weird things happen.

As someone else said, this show is amazing and it brings up things that you don't expect.

While it may seem messy at some times, I believe that we finally can manage to get some answers.

The suspense and the story are good and the themes continue to develop in such an interesting way: conflict, betrayal, robots becoming more humans, humans unevolving, the ability of AI to feel, religion and how even non-believers end up believing when they need.

This show is a masterpiece and it may even make you feel concerned on what the future will be like.

I imagine that this is how the producers are writing this second season of raised by wolves:

• write random stuff on pieces of paper (flying snakes, robots growing like plants, people becoming trees, a video-game that turns you into a fish,....)
• put all pieces of paper in a bowl
• get drunk
• while blindfolded, pick a paper from the bowl
• this is what happens in the next episode
• repeat until end of budget for this season
• look for more money for next season

I can't say I agree with this method but if people enjoy random stuff on tick Tok I can't argue on this.

This show is one of the last, genuinely interesting sci fi shows on TV. The finale was excellent. Made me look forward to the rest of the story. I guess people are happier with shows that serve everything to them on a platter.