The animated science fiction series “Scavengers Reign” is a stunning example of how a unique creative vision can flourish within the most boilerplate of premises.
The innovative animated series, which follows a group of space travelers who've crashed on an unfamiliar planet, feels like nothing else on TV. Scavengers Reign Season 1 is now streaming on Max.
The series is packed with these Rube-Goldberg-esque sequences, alien organisms converted into human tools. The beauty of these alien mechanisms is that the characters rarely jump into explanation or overload the audience with details of how these work but instead silently go about their manipulations.
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The gorgeously animated ‘Scavengers Reign’ is a visceral, ecocentric trip to space. It’s got plenty of sci-fi body horror, but just as often, it’s a meditative comment on nature.
Not everyone boldly goes where no one has gone before on purpose. That’s the premise of any number of science fiction masterworks, and it’s the premise of Scavengers Reign, the Max animated series that strands the crew of a disabled deep-space vessel on a place both wonderful and strange. As the scattered humans try to make their way back to the ship and each other, the animals, vegetables, and maybe even minerals of the planet make their own fascinating, frightening, frequently lethal presence felt. Can our laconic explorers survive and thrive in this gorgeous but dangerous environment? And is the resulting show, which is somehow both extremely chill and frequently disgusting at the same time, worth exploring itself?