How do I feel about "Raised by Wolves" having finished the first season? Mixed. Mixed is probably a fair way to describe it. It's never less than a quality production - but as it's run on and the rules have blurred and unexplainable things have started happening, my opinion has lowered.
With the Earth ravaged by battles between atheists and Disciples of Sol, an escape pod, populated by two Robots and several human embryos, lands on Kepler 22B with a mission to start a new godless colony. Progress is difficult and devastatingly costly, even before the arrival of a ship of zealots arrive, but one of the two androids, 'Mother'(Amana Collin) is a reprogrammed Necromancer model, a weapon of mass destruction and is willing to protect her family by any means necessary.
Visually it's top notch. There's a bleak aesthetic to the planet, which matches the harshness of the environment - and the rest of the CGI work, be it spaceship, creature or robot are really well done. Performances are OK, even if Travis Fimmel is essentially playing Ragnar Lothbrook again, he's never less than watchable. Amana Collin and Abubakar Salim are excellent at playing androids, both of whom slowly gain more "life" as the season runs on. The various children involved are a mixed bag of decent to annoying, but it would be unduly cruel to signal out individuals.
My trouble was, as the season ran on, and more and more unexplained things happened I developed the sinking feeling that answers weren't going to be forthcoming. There are too many random actions for any single explanation to work. I'd have preferred less of them; a native population alone would have been OK, or perhaps some form of hallucinogen caused by inhaling gases to explain the reappearance of dead characters. I might be proven wrong, but I don't feel like it has an outcome it is heading towards, rather more that it's making stuff up as it goes along and hoping that it'll work out in the end. Perhaps only at the true resolution are you able to make that distinction.
I'll be back for season two but it's more out of a sense of intrigue, rather than any love for the show.