Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticCreating a post-apocalyptic story that feels genuinely new has become a near-impossible task.
Even if the real world didn’t feel like it was blurring the line between fact and fiction every day, the “what happens to the world when the world’s already ended?” scenario has been done to death and back.
At some point, the easiest way forward in telling such a story is to go back to what’s worked before. But as HBO Max’s sci-fi drama “Raised by Wolves” proves, drawing from a once successful well isn’t necessarily a winning formula, either — not even when you get a master of the genre like Ridley Scott to steer it at the outset.From its very first minutes, watching “Raised By Wolves” feels like watching writer.
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