{"id":176523,"date":"2023-11-23T00:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-incredible-sci-fi-series-you-need-to-be-watching-feels-truly-alien"},"modified":"2023-11-23T00:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T06:23:18","slug":"the-incredible-sci-fi-series-you-need-to-be-watching-feels-truly-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/the-incredible-sci-fi-series-you-need-to-be-watching-feels-truly-alien","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Sci-Fi Series You Need To Be Watching Feels Truly Alien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-incredible-sci-fi-series-you-need-to-be-watching-feels-truly-alien2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Max\u2019s <em>Scavengers Reign<\/em> is making waves in the science-fiction world for brilliantly conceptualizing and constructing an <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/topic\/alien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"alien\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">alien<\/a> ecosystem that feels truly out of this world. Since its October 19 <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/topic\/streaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"streaming\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">streaming<\/a> premiere, we\u2019ve been presented with a 12-episode run that places an exceptionally strong emphasis on the series\u2019 setting in a way that makes the environment a more compelling character than the actual characters themselves. <em>Scavengers Reign<\/em> is a visually stunning and surreal take on humanity\u2019s relationship with nature, and die-hard <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/category\/ent\/scifi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"sci-fi\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">sci-fi<\/a> fans can\u2019t get enough of it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XC7dsRbQVnc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>YouTube creator NerdWriter1 posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XC7dsRbQVnc\">a short breakdown of the series<\/a> and grapples with the other-worldliness that Scavengers Reign presents. He likens the series\u2019 emphasis on the environment to Werner Herzog\u2019s documentary Burden of Dreams, in which Herzog suggests that nature is indifferent to humanity. In other words, nature has its own agenda, and the idea of harmony between humanity and nature is something that doesn\u2019t necessarily exist when you consider how punishing an unfamiliar ecosystem can be to humans who are trying to traverse the vast landscapes full of unknown flora, fauna, and critters who rule the land.<\/p>\n<p>Much like the real-life chaos that\u2019s found in <em>Burden of Dreams<\/em>, <em>Scavengers Reign <\/em>presents a harrowing world in which its protagonists are tasked with navigating through unfamiliar territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max\u2019s Scavengers Reign is making waves in the science-fiction world for brilliantly conceptualizing and constructing an alien ecosystem that feels truly out of this world. Since its October 19 streaming premiere, we\u2019ve been presented with a 12-episode run that places an exceptionally strong emphasis on the series\u2019 setting in a way that makes the environment [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}