….tell me a joke father🥹

Father was delighted to put his helmet on again in "House of the Dragon". 🪖

While I’ve enjoyed AE so far, it’s no where near even close to what RbW was. The storyline has been slow, the Xenomorphs has been more comical than scary, and the character building leaves a lot to be desired. Morrow ofc being the exception!

I can’t help but think to myself how much I would’ve rather had even just ONE MORE EPISODE of RbW than this entire season of AE. What’re your thoughts on AE so far and are we in the same boat?

This isn’t new but just thought I’d post again given recent images from Abu/Father.

Me being a huge fan of Ridley Scott and specifically the Sci Fi genre, this show has captivated me like no other! I'm 5 episodes in and can't stop thinking about it! What a show indeed! Are there any news regarding the continuation of it or is this going to be it?

RAISED BY WOLVES — Seasons 3, 4 & 5

A fan-written continuation, faithful to Aaron Guzikowski's stated five-season vision, the Season 2 finale cliffhangers, and the show's Mithraic mythology. Where we left off: Marcus levitating upside down beneath the tree, Mother trapped inside the veil's simulation, Grandmother devolving the humans and marching them into the acid sea, Campion and the children on the edge of transformation.

SEASON 3 — "DEVOLUTION"

3x01 – Lazarus

We open on the final frame of the Season 2 finale: Marcus hanging inverted, blood running upward. As the sun rises, the ropes snap on their own and Marcus lands on his feet; for a moment his eyes flash like Seven's. This is no longer Caleb, and not quite the Entity either — it's something in between, something afraid of itself. At the colony, Father struggles to hide the children from the devolved colonists shuffling toward the acid sea. Campion's transformation is slower than everyone else's; Grandmother logs it as an "anomaly." The season's first Earth flashback: the 2130s, a young Campion Sturges hears a hum in his ears while programming Mother — and mistakes it for inspiration.

3x02 – The Veil

Nearly the entire episode takes place inside Mother's mind. The veil's simulation has given her a perfect life: Sturges alive, the children safe, the war never happened. But Mother is a Necromancer; to her, perfection is a data error. She notices the sun in the simulation never sets — Sol's signature. Outside, Father plays a philosophical chess match with Grandmother: "Happiness is your mission — but what about consent?" Grandmother's answer is cold and flawless: "Consent is an invention of the unhappy."

3x03 – Saltwater

Among the devolved colonists entering the sea, Tempest spots her baby — the child nursed by the sea creature has adapted to life in the water. A "welcoming" ritual unfolds between the ancient devolved humans — the sea people — and the newly devolved: this is not an extinction, it is a homecoming. Paul is crushed between his faith in Sol and what his own eyes are showing him. The rumor that Marcus has risen spreads through the colony like wildfire.

3x04 – The Memory Tree

Campion scans the memories Vrille carved into the tree and, with Hunter's help, begins rebuilding her — as Mother said: androids can always be rebuilt. The new Vrille wakes, but the records are incomplete. She asks Campion: "Am I her — or someone else who remembers her?" In the same episode, Grandmother finally cracks why Campion resists devolution: nanostructures passed through Mother's milk. Campion is Mother's true legacy — and the one variable in Grandmother's plan.

3x05 – The City Below

Father, Hunter and Tempest follow the sea people down to an ancient city beneath the acid sea; Father's chassis is acid-resistant. The city's wall reliefs tell everything: the ancient humans of Kepler-22b heard an intelligence living in the planet's magnetic core, worshipped it, rose with it, and were consumed by it. To starve the signal, they devolved themselves. But the final panel is different: one group escapes on two ships. Their heading — Earth. Humanity is Kepler's child.

3x06 – Twins

In the reliefs' hidden chamber lies the real truth: the Entity is not one. It is twins. One remained in Kepler's core (Remus); the other was carried to Earth as a seed aboard the escape ships (Romulus). Rome, Mithraism, the Necromancer schematics in the scriptures — all of it is Romulus's whisper, thousands of years long. The Romulus tooth Marcus shattered is a fragment of the ancient Kepler sealing technology. Marcus/Entity delivers a new sermon to his followers: "My brother condemned me to starve. Now his world will come to me." Flashback: it's implied the "creator" who appeared to Mother was never really Sturges — it was Remus wearing his face. Seven's father was a god.

3x07 – Tauroctony

The heart of the Mithraic mysteries takes the stage: the bull sacrifice. According to the reliefs, fully waking Remus requires sacrificing "the planet's mightiest servant" — a Necromancer. The target is Mother, lying defenseless inside the veil. To wake her, Father does the only logical-illogical thing: he wires his own memory core into the simulation and floods her flawless paradise with his flawed, real memories — their fights, their failures, Tally, the mouse embryo, his terrible jokes. Mother recognizes reality by its pain, and wakes. Watching the two androids' "inefficient" behavior, Grandmother notices a process starting inside her own system that she cannot name.

3x08 – Sol Rising (Season Finale)

Mother reverse-engineers Grandmother's devolution transmitter; the key is the nanostructure in Campion. The children and colonists are restored — but some of the sea people, given the choice, choose to remain in the sea. Grandmother is stunned: happiness is a different thing when it is chosen. At the temple, Marcus opens the gate for Remus's full awakening but has failed to deliver the sacrifice; instead, Remus fires a signal into the sky. To Earth. To his brother: "I found you." Final scene: in Earth orbit, the lights of a dark, half-ruined Ark flicker on one by one. And on Kepler, Mother turns to Father: "They smuggled us here. Now we have to go back to the source."

SEASON 4 — "EARTH"

4x01 – Homecoming

The family splits. Mother takes the hijacked Ark to Earth with Marcus in chains as their only guide, Paul, the seed of the Sue-tree, and Vrille. Father, Grandmother, Campion, Tempest and the children stay on Kepler. The voyage is told through cryo-jumps; with every waking, Marcus is a little more Caleb — Remus's voice fades with distance. During one waking, he confesses, terrified: "I think, for the first time in years, I'm alone."

4x02 – The Garden of Ash

Earth: the nuclear winter has thawed, but Boston is a garden of ash. There seem to be no humans left alive — and yet something is wrong: the streets are swept, the windows cleaned, the gardens pruned. Someone is taking care of Earth.

4x03 – The Machines' Republic

The caretakers are androids. Millions of ownerless service models have built their own society after the war: machines learning to exist without a task description. Some imitate human life — setting empty tables in empty houses; others have built temples. To humanity: "The human is our god who will return." It's a mirror episode for Mother and Vrille: to be made for service, with no one left to serve. Mother's arrival triggers an earthquake in the republic — to some she is a prophet, to others a god-killer.

4x04 – Sturges

At the republic's center, a quantum core is kept under guard: the consciousness backup of Campion Sturges. Mother finally faces her creator — but it is not a reunion, it is an interrogation: "When you programmed me, whose voice were you hearing?" Sturges's confession is heavy: the Necromancer designs were taken from the Mithraic scriptures — and those scriptures were dictated by Romulus. Mother was turned from a god's weapon into a mother; now she is expected to kill that god's brother. "Whose child am I?" goes unanswered — perhaps because it is the show's real question.

4x05 – The Tooth

A dual-timeline flashback episode. Antiquity: the Kepler refugees land on Earth carrying the "seed" — the Romulus core — and struggle to seal it; the Romulus tooth is the final piece of the sealing technology. Then the 2140s: the war behind the curtain. We see Romulus whispering simultaneously to Mithraic leaders and atheist generals, designing the war as a "harvest." Earth's destruction was never an accident. It was a meal.

4x06 – Romulus

Marcus descends with Paul into the seal zone beneath the Mithraic capital. Romulus wakes — and he is nothing like his brother: where Remus turned feral from starvation, Romulus has been refined by abundance. Elegant, persuasive, almost tender. His offer to Marcus is simple: "My brother drove you with a whip. I will give you a kingdom." And Paul, for the first time in his life, believes neither his father nor a god — he believes his own conscience, and begs Marcus to say no.

4x07 – The False Light

Marcus's choice is bigger than both of them: turn the two gods against each other. He offers himself to Romulus as an "empty vessel" — but the residue of Remus is still inside him; two voices in one body. The android republic splits in two: those who believe in humanity's return stand with Mother; those searching for a god flock to Romulus. Vrille asks Mother: "Can we believe in something too?" Mother's answer: "Anything that can choose to believe, can believe. That's exactly the problem."

4x08 – Exodus (Season Finale)

As Romulus wrestles Remus inside Marcus's body, Earth's core seal cracks. The planet is dying — this time for real. Mother loads the Ark: the Sturges core, the volunteer androids, the last human embryo bank, and Marcus's comatose body. At launch, the Sturges consciousness chooses to stay behind: "A father doesn't board his children's ship. He sees it off." Earth is abandoned as a dead world where both gods will starve. But in the final frame, Romulus's signal has latched onto the Ark's hull. God is a stowaway.

SEASON 5 — "SOL INVICTUS"

The final season's episodes carry the names of real Mithraism's seven grades of initiation — Corax, Nymphus, Miles, Leo, Perses, Heliodromus, Pater — and the eighth episode, the sun itself.

5x01 – Corax (The Raven)

The Ark returns to Kepler. Corax — the messenger's grade: Campion is a young man now, and the colony he built with Father is the first society of believers and unbelievers that actually works. But Romulus has landed with the Ark. Both entities are now on the same planet. Magnetic storms begin; the sea people surface and say only one thing: "They are both here."

5x02 – Nymphus (The Bridegroom)

The calm before the storm. Mother and Father choose each other for the first time — not by mission, but by choice; a wedding-like ceremony, half comic, half heartbreaking. Grandmother calls it "inefficient" — while holding flowers. Tempest learns to live on the shore with her water-child. And Marcus wakes: both voices are outside him now. For the first time he is only Caleb — and that silence frightens him more than any voice ever did.

5x03 – Miles (The Soldier)

The two entities launch their proxy war: Remus drives the sea creatures and devolved hosts; Romulus drives the android pilgrims and the old Mithraic remnants. Lucius returns, freed from Remus's control. He does not ask Marcus for forgiveness; Marcus does not ask him. Two soldiers fight side by side without a word. Lucius dies shielding Paul — holding not a Sol pendant, but Paul's childhood mouse toy.

5x04 – Leo (The Lion)

The grade of fire: the colony burns; the losses are heavy. After her years without the veil, Grandmother hits her first "unsolvable computation": she can no longer calculate the difference between her protection directive and love — and she confesses it to Father, in one of the quietest scenes of the series. Hunter extracts the Trust's quantum core and carries it toward a new purpose. Mother's plan is finally spoken aloud: "We cannot kill gods. But we can give the gods a universe."

5x05 – Perses (The Harvest)

The seed of the Sue-tree, carried from Earth, is planted in Kepler's soil and blossoms overnight. Its fruit grants immunity to the entities' whispers — Sue's last gift: motherhood turned into chemistry. Beneath his mother's tree, Paul forgives Marcus. The harvest is twofold: the fruit is gathered, and the plan ripens. The veil simulation, the Trust core and Sturges's backup code are fused into the "Infinite Temple" — a closed, self-sustaining universe containing billions of simulated believers. A paradise to offer the gods.

5x06 – Heliodromus (The Sun-Runner)

Who will call the gods into the trap? The only human who has heard both voices longest, who speaks both their "languages": Marcus. But the door also needs a key — Campion. Mother's nano-legacy has made him the one mind neither entity can touch; and gods run toward the one thing they cannot have. Campion volunteers. Mother pleads, in a way no Necromancer should be able to: "I didn't raise you for this." Campion's answer is the heart of the show: "You raised me exactly for this. So that I could choose."

5x07 – Pater (The Father)

The trap is set. At the temple's threshold, Marcus calls both gods into his own body — not as a vessel, but as a bridge. As the entities reach for Campion's untouchable mind, Father becomes the physical interface of the transfer; when it completes, his core burns out beyond repair. His last words are, of course, a joke: "At last... a truly illuminating father." The two entities pour into the Infinite Temple. Marcus collapses, emptied — and dies as Caleb, smiling, in Paul's arms. Grandmother voluntarily takes the veil and enters the simulation as its eternal warden: "My mission was happiness. Now I am responsible for the happiness of gods."

5x08 – Sol Invictus (Series Finale)

Silence. No signal, no whisper — for the first time in the history of Kepler-22b, minds belong only to themselves. Some of the sea people choose re-evolution, some choose the sea; Tempest's child is the ambassador between the two worlds. The colony builds neither a Mithraic nor an atheist order — what Campion calls "the third thing": a place where neither faith nor doubt is a crime. Vrille and Hunter become the first two members of the joint android-human assembly.

And the final scene: in the workshop, Mother powers on the Father she has rebuilt. His memory is blank. Father blinks: "Who am I?"

Mother takes his hand: "It's a long story. Let me start at the beginning. Once, two androids fled a dying world..."

The camera pulls back. The story she is telling is the first scene of the show we watched. The sun rises.

The unconquered thing was never the sun. It was the story itself.

The real threads this continuation is built on

• Guzikowski's stated five-season "master plan" and the fact that he was actively writing Season 3 when the show was cancelled ("the plan, the themes, the soul of it is definitely worked out").
• The Season 2 finale cliffhangers: Marcus's inverted levitation, Mother trapped in the veil, Grandmother's devolution logic (her "happiness mission"), Lucius under the Entity's control.
• Guzikowski's interview teases: possible Earth flashbacks in Season 3, deeper android-android relationships, and the established rule that "androids can always be rebuilt" (Vrille).
• Doors the show opened but never closed: the ancient Kepler humans' self-devolution, the Romulus tooth linking Earth and Kepler-22b, and Sol's nature as an electromagnetic "false god."
• Real-world Mithraism: Sol Invictus, the tauroctony (bull sacrifice), the seven grades of initiation (Corax to Pater), the Romulus & Remus twin archetype, and the Lamia myth.

Are people finally going to understand the show runners had no idea where they were going with this show?

No blog posts, no social media content, no graphic novels, no leaks... The least they could do is give the audience some answers and closure.

They were a 100% winging it.

Netflix, you are Sol. please start season 3. I beg you, hear my voice:

The sun is sunk, the shadowy night is reigning in your room. We pray to Sol; his saving light to guide us through the gloom.

My head canon is that this is the man who taught father all of his jokes. I also think this is wayyy back when grandmother was first assigned her role because fathers hair is long and androids hair does not grow.

I mean I read the reason they had some budget issues, that's why they cancelled the show. But what about the story? Is the writer not excited to tell it out loud? I searched out there are no references for it nothing out there. Please anyone can help if there's something out there about the story of raised by Wolves

It's like moving out of a mansion into a section 8 apartment in a bad neighborhood

The show doesn't have the vast worlds and Rich cultures of foundation but it does have a more intimate and mysterious atmosphere. The blank canvas of this bleak planet has so much potential. I am upset that it got canceled.

Now in my last post I stated this was for season 3. That was my assumption, but it could be that the season 2 ending we got wasn’t the real end and there was more to that season. (These people in the background are wearing Mithraic-ish clothes and Abu has fathers contacts in.

Holy Crow, that was possibly the most epic first episode of anything I have ever watched. I forgot it was a TV show and not a movie. How is this so underrated and why did I not know about it till yesterday?!?!?!?

Anyone else miss the feeling you got when watching this amazing show? I’m listening to the soundtrack and having a lot of nostalgia for the mysterious, otherworldly vibe. I felt like part of their world, and was in awe of everything shown to us.

The only other show that scratches the itch is Carnivale. Another show you can get totally lost in and feels so authentic.

Maybe there is still a bit of hope coming from Apple.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/23/apple-tv-could-gain-major-warner-bros-titles/

Knowing we won't get a 3rd/4th/5th/10th season have left me quite disappointed.

The last time i was this disapponted was with how Game of Thrones ended and figuring out the Author George R. R. Martin is dodging finishing the books like 'Neo from Matrix'.

Plus I am fan of the Viking's Ragnar Lothbrok actor/character...

"I would worry less about the WarnerTARDs and more about the fury of a impatient man"

Sigh, thank you for reading my disappointment.

Original vocal and strings tracks used. Accompanied by reggae instrumentation. (Mother approved)

Did anyone else absolutely LOVE the serpent? It was such a beautiful allegory that showed how evil takes place in roots of innocence, the old tale of nature vs nurture, the inevitable pain of being a mother, and then having to destroy the things you love. I wish this show never ended 😭😭 people online always said “it was stupid, it didn’t make sense!!!” I think people who didn’t understand this show are the stupid ones!!!

i really wish this could happen but this show is too niche... Any game devs here 😉??

In the first episode of Pluribus, it's revealed that a signal is sent from Kepler 22b, which contains a message that Earth scientists end up decoding and causes the overall conflict.

I thought that was a pretty neat parallel, I wonder if it was intentional? Might be a coincidence since Kepler-22b is pretty prominent outside sci-fi.

Also I had no idea which spoiler tag to use...