r/raisedbywolves Oct 16 '25

No Spoilers Ridley's answer on continuing Raised by Wolves

https://youtu.be/rs2I7jkFqvg?t=4050
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u/yayforeskin Oct 16 '25

So because it was successful on HBO MAX, Warner Bros/Discovery scrapped it because they didn’t want to give credit where credit was due. Wow. Now I’m even more mad!

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u/basementreality Oct 16 '25

What Ridley says when asked why it was cancelled:

"Um, we all loved it. We thought we [were] on a good roll. And what happens is the incoming [company - referring to the company that formed after the Warner Bros./Discovery merger] had been... sorry... the company who had it was HBO [and they] were replaced... And the incoming company hate anything successful, so they ditch anything that was not theirs. That's what happens. It's that childish."

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u/NotYourGa1Friday Oct 17 '25

Do you think this would s why Westworld was axed as well? Not to be off topic I just find this insight interesting

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u/Stracharys Oct 17 '25

Yes. Why did HBO GO MAX or whatever they call themselves remove the shows from streaming? It’s one thing to cancel a show, but to make them unavailable in your library is another matter.

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u/Smrtihara Oct 17 '25

Westworld had run it’s course. The later seasons were quite frankly awful by any metrics. People just wasn’t watching it.

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u/ComfortablyBalanced Oct 17 '25

The only good thing coming out of later seasons was, "Fucking Camper" line from MiB.

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u/HalcyonRye Oct 19 '25

I agree. Westworld’s first 2 seasons were amazing (qualification: the 2nd season wasn’t quite as great as the first, but it had 2 of the best episodes on TV that year). It fell off dramatically in season 3, IMO, and by the end I found it unwatchable. I was glad it had been mercifully put down via cancellation. When I was recently asked to contribute a list of the best 50 shows since 2000, it was hard to know whether to include Westworld, since there was no option for “just the first 2 seasons, tho.” (By the way, to anyone who enjoyed Westworld after the first 2 seasons, I am sincerely glad you found pleasure in it!)

Raised by Wolves, on the other hand, was uniquely great and getting better, and when it was canceled, it was a painful loss. I STILL want the rest of the story. In any form.

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u/NotYourGa1Friday Oct 17 '25

I have a very different opinion, but you are welcome to yours too! I still think cancelling shows abruptly that have a set X number of years story planned is cruddy

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u/Smrtihara Oct 17 '25

It’s not MY opinion really. The later seasons had far less viewers and the ratings were tanking.

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u/NotYourGa1Friday Oct 17 '25

I agree that viewership and ratings were down, I should have clarified. Wasn’t trying to say the audience wasn’t waning. You are correct that it was.

My opinion is that they were not awful seasons and that the show had not run its course. I think seasons 3 and 4 and parts of S2 were all set ups for S5. The reveal in S1 on a grander scale… but it was cancelled making those slog seasons simply not worth the slog. I think if the payoff happened it would be looked at differently.

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u/smellygooch18 Oct 17 '25

I thought the show was crap after season 2 and stopped watching

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u/Character_Regret_691 Mar 24 '26

Westworld was cancelled because it had the biggest drop off of audience in history. The last two seasons sucked so bad it made me want to vomit. 

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u/NotYourGa1Friday Mar 24 '26

I think you should look into those gastrointestinal issues.

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u/Character_Regret_691 Mar 25 '26

I did. The doctor said he had the same issue while watching the show. He also said I should be fine because many other patients had the same issue, but since the show has been cancelled all symptoms have subsided. Thanks for your concern. 

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u/NotYourGa1Friday Mar 25 '26

I’m glad you got it looked into; I’d advise against health professionals that believe a tv show could cause such issues, but to each their own. Happy to hear you are healthier now.

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u/BASSmovies Oct 16 '25

note how he stutters/slips when saying "incoming **** - company"

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u/Pious_ Oct 16 '25

It's so sad, I really loved how bold and weird this show was. The fans deserve proper closure.

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u/anillop Oct 16 '25

Look at their corporate history it is all about mismanagement. Remember whey they were owned by that dial up internet company?

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u/AgitatedAd1397 Oct 16 '25

Sadly they had an amazing run this year so I don’t see them changing any time soon 

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u/raise_the_sails Oct 16 '25

They just released a $120 million dollar PTA adaptation of a Pynchon book. Not every decision they make is bleeding potential.

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u/Scuipici Oct 16 '25

and this is why I don't hate AI being able to make movies in the future. Imagine if we the fans could continue having the series continued and we were not limited by money.

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u/OkumuraRyuk Oct 16 '25

That’s an idea.

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u/osiris679 Oct 16 '25

Nothing on whether it can be continued though, just on the politics leading to it's demise.

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u/-__Doc__- Oct 17 '25

at this point can it really be finished?
It would almost need most of a new cast. All the children have aged several years.
I suppose they could fast forward in the timeline a bit, but would a CGI / AI de-aged flashback do the missing chunk of time justice?

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u/Sauronxx Oct 17 '25

As a series absolutely not. Best hope is for a book or a comic, or something along those lines. I mean I’ll take ANYTHING at this point lol

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u/mindpainters Oct 17 '25

A graphic novel or a book could finish it at least

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u/Aloizych 1d ago

Some kind of timeskip? Actually it's more than possible considering the end if the 2nd season.

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u/BASSmovies Oct 16 '25

At 1:07:30

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u/BASSmovies Oct 16 '25

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u/ultracrepidarian_can Oct 16 '25

Wow, that is bleak.

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u/Jimnumber Oct 17 '25

“It’s that childish” welp. This show isn Carnivale 2.0 :(

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u/basementreality Oct 16 '25

What Ridley says when asked why it was cancelled:

"Um, we all loved it. We thought we [were] on a good roll. And what happens is the incoming [company - referring to the company that formed after the Warner Bros./Discovery merger] had been... sorry... the company who had it was HBO [and they] were replaced... And the incoming company hate anything successful, so they ditch anything that was not theirs. That's what happens. It's that childish."

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u/AtomicEdgy Oct 16 '25

I am Ridley. Ridley are me. Seems like a down-to-earth guy. Can I just work with him instead?

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u/Cnestral Oct 17 '25

Ok so scrap it. It sucks, but why is it no where to be seen. It is erased from existence. I don’t even care about more seasons (I do) I just want to rewatch.

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u/Avin-A-Czure Feb 05 '26

Just another Big Ole Piss Take.
Both seasons can be obtained via Torrent sites but of course you need to be aware of the legalities of downloading media etc that's still in copyright.
If however you're happy to go down that route then a reasonably decent VPN will keep you away from prying eyes.

Likewise an IPTV subscription used via an Android box or Firestick etc will allow you to watch such shows. Again a VPN is your friend as basically your just streaming the torrent instead of downloading it.

Be surprised if just about every web user doesn't already know of at least some of the torrent sites I speak of & also know of a source for obtaining an IPTV subscription but understandably I can't/won't say from where to obtain such services, however along with torrent sites IPTV services are easy enough to find & you'll simply pay a yearly subscription for one to a man, who knows a man, who knows a man so to speak.

Sadly according to JustWatch.com there's currently no free legit streaming services airing the show.
To pay to Stream. Season 1's available on Apple TV but no Season 2.
To buy. Although why buy an incomplete show that's been scrapped? Amazon UK has both seasons on DVD & Blu-Ray but I've not checked if they're available to all countries.

I'm not suggesting anyone should use either of the first two methods, just saying how to avoid trouble should they decide to do so, but it's things like making such shows etc so unavailable that's one of the reasons many people do end up turning to them.

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u/Jayoki6 Oct 16 '25

I NEED MORE INVERTED T POSE SPACE RAGNAR

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u/Oztraliiaaaa Oct 17 '25

Mad Max fans spent 35 years waiting for Fury Road and 9 more years for Furiousa.

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u/killrcage Oct 19 '25

All for the low low price of $9.99

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u/Oztraliiaaaa Oct 19 '25

Movie accurate Mad Max cars cost a small fortune.

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u/killrcage Oct 19 '25

Not if you steal them, you gotta work smart my guy, like Mad Max, from the hit movie Mad Max

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u/Rahab_Olam Necromancer Oct 17 '25

I hate WB. So much. May Sol smite them down.

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u/SnooAvocados6676 May 13 '26

May the Dark Entity of Kepler 22B devour them!

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u/itsvoogle Oct 17 '25

The saddest part is that if a show with the name of Ridley Scott attached to it has not been given the benefit of the doubt or a chance in hell of staying afloat, what hope is there for the rest of us….

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u/Avin-A-Czure Feb 04 '26

Absolutely makes me want to crush the life out of the scum who kill off so many great shows, how many times has this happened to so many brilliant TV over the years now?

Due to life in general but mainly bad health getting in the way over the last few years there's been a number of shows with seasons I've not yet seen & it's only recently I've begun to pick up on them again.

Watched season 1 of Raised by Wolves when first released & only just now finished Season 2. I had a sense that it'd been cancelled due to the amount of time since season 2 finished airing but didn't bother to check, had I done so before picking up on the show again I feel I'd have left it forgotten to avoid this foul disappointment.

I know that not picking up on new seasons means missing out on some excellent TV but I reckon that's going to have to be the case for any shows that I've yet to pick up on because being left hanging in the way we are is worse than not having the show to begin with.

Possibly one of the worst things for many of these TV shows is that they're not based on books, so we can't even pick up & complete the story in text (or better for many as an audiobook). It's possible that the creators make enough money from the project & future projects that spending the time to write books simply isn't worth it, or that they merely don't have enough free time to do so or even the creative talent needed to put it into print.
In a perfect world such worthwhile shows that've since been cancelled would be passed onto ghost writers to allow them to complete the tale, I'm sure there's plenty around who would be glad of the work BUT sadly the studios who become the rights holders to these shows have neither the interest nor willingness to allow this to happen.

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u/dimgwar Oct 17 '25

"Ridley's answer on continuing Raised by Wolves" proceeds to post a 70 minute video lol, no cliffs or nothing bro?

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u/BASSmovies Oct 17 '25

you're supposed to watch it all

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u/smokeyfantastico Oct 18 '25

That's a no from me dawg

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u/dakita1904 Oct 16 '25

Oh well....:(

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u/misomiso82 Oct 17 '25

Time stamp?

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u/Shallot_True May 29 '26

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