This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross. The HBO Mac series, raised by Wolves, was created

by our guest, Aaron Gazzakowski. Ridley Scott is the show's executive producer. Scott

also directed the first two episodes. Raised by Wolves, which is now in its second season,

is centered on two Androids, Mother and Father, who are sent with human embryos to a distant

planet. The Androids are to birth and parent the children in a desperate mission to save

the human race. I'll let our producer Sam Brigger, who spoke with Gazzakowski, tell us more.

Raised by Wolves is set in a future where Earth has been devastated by a long war between

the Mithreic, a sun god worshipping religious group, and the atheists. Humanity is on the

brink of extinction, and both factions decide to colonize a distant planet, Kepler-22b.

The Mithreic travel across the galaxy in a spaceship called the Ark of Heaven that holds 1,000

of their faith and suspended animation for a 12-year journey. The atheists send the

mother and father Androids in a much faster ship along with the human embryos. Kepler-22b

turns out to be a harsh planet, and five of the six children die. When the Ark arise,

it is only mother and father, and their son, Campion, who remain. The violence of Earth breaks

out on Kepler-22b. On Earth, the Android mother was designed as a weapon of mass destruction,

and she has been reprogrammed with parental directives. She will do anything to protect

her children, even if it means killing lots of people and jeopardizing humanity's chance

of survival. Raised by Wolves is a show about parenting, about what makes us human, and

it's about faith religious or otherwise. It's violent, often funny, and full of mystery,

and it's deeply weird, which is one of the reasons why I like it. If you like science

fiction of the David Kronenberg, David Lynch, and Ridley Scott variety, then this is the

show for you. Aaron Gosekowski created Raised by Wolves, and is its showrunner. He also

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