7.246 minSeason 2 • Episode 8
LatestGrandmother reveals her own agenda, Marcus seeks revenge, and Mother sets out to neutralize the serpent – but is leveled by the fallout.
After Earth is ravaged by a great religious war, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother and Father, to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b. Their treacherous task is jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious order of surviving humans.
Acting
Amanda Collin's android micro-expressions are genuinely unsettling.
Practical Effects
Creature designs that'll haunt your peripheral vision for weeks.
Direction
Ridley Scott's pilot sets a visual language nobody else matches.
Creator
Aaron Guzikowski
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The show was Ridley Scott's TV directorial debut at age 82, and he only directed the first two episodes before handing to his son Luke.
Mother's weaponized scream — called 'the voice' — was inspired by biblical descriptions of angels as terrifying beings of destruction, not pretty winged babies.
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