Don't sleep on this truly unique animated sci-fi series, which got a second life on Netflix—and a much-deserved Emmy nod When starting a new television show, one of two impulses typically dominates. There's "I want to see something comforting." And then there's that reaction's darker, more danger-filled, and beautiful sibling: "I want to see some shit I've never seen.
" Scavengers Reign falls, quite gloriously, in the latter camp. addition to your personal list of the most fucked-up things you've ever seen. Originally pitched to Adult Swim, given a shaded existence in the smoke of the rolling garbage fire over at Max , and now getting a bit of genuine sunlight thanks to its move to Netflix and much-deserved Emmy nod , the sci-fi series operates at multiple levels of frequently horrifying joy.
But the most basic one is this: Sit down to watch one of its 12 extant episodes, and you're practically guaranteed to get at least oneaddition to your personal list of the most fucked-up things you've ever seen. Drawn in soft, gorgeous pastels that deliberately evoke the otherworldly landscapes of French sci-fi legend Moebius, Reign concerns itself with the crew of the Demeter, a space-cargo ship that has the ill fortune to suffer a catastrophic failure in the vicinity of the life-rich world of Vesta. And the thing about the Vestan flora and fauna—as the few survivors who make it to the ship's escape pods (while most of their comrades remain locked, semi-safe, in cryo sleep) quickly find out—is that they aren't unwelcoming to human life.
Quite the opposite: The Vestan creatures are desperately eager to interface with humanity (as if they need us), whether that means feeding on us, growing inside us, or otherwise adapting us into their all-powerful biological compulsions and needs. You're going to be part of the system one way or another, Vesta asserts, with snapping teeth, subtle poisons, and slowly creeping tentacles. Adapt or be destroyed.
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