Raised By Wolves

Two androids are raising children on an unfamiliar planet after Earth has become uninhabitable through war. Raised by Wolves starts with the practical and unsettling question of what parenting means when the adults are machines carrying human instructions.

Amanda Collin and Abubakar Salim make Mother and Father distinct presences rather than matching pieces of technology. Their care can be convincing without becoming conventionally human, which gives the family material its particular unease.

The series is willing to be strange. Belief, biological survival and inherited conflict become difficult to separate, while the planet resists easy explanation. Some developments are more compelling as images or questions than as coherent answers.

It is a worthwhile choice for ambitious science fiction if you can accept that its original two-season run did not complete the larger story. Silo offers a more controlled mystery about an enclosed society. Raised by Wolves is the riskier proposition, with an unusual family at the centre of a world that keeps becoming less familiar.