501 - Scavengers Reign

We’re crash-landing back into regular podcasting with the Max original animated series Scavengers Reign. Created by Joseph Bennett and Charles Huettner, the seeds of Scavengers Reign were planted in an Adult Swim short before blossoming into a brilliant sci-fi series teeming with surrealist detours and bits of body horror. Paul and Arlo rave about the show’s Cronenberg-meets-Miyazaki vibe, laud the series’ refusal to provide easy answers, and hope against hope that this beautiful, otherworldly thing will continue to thrive in a second season. Plus, Arlo is the worst.

NEXT: more Western adult animation with heavy influence from the East, as the boys confront Netflix’s Blue Eye Samurai.

BREAKDOWN

00:00:45  -  Intro / Arlo is the worst!

00:27:55  -  Scavengers Reign

01:53:45  -  Outro / Next

LINKS

• Scavengers Reign’s Writers on Creating a Beautifully Hostile Sci-Fi Show by Justin Carter, Gizmodo

• One With Nature, Stranded in Outer Space by Kambole Campbell, Variety

• The Sonic Ecosystem of Scavengers Reign by Marc Weidenbaum, Disquiet

• Max’s Scavengers Reign captures the beauty and terror of a truly alien world by Andrew Webster, The Verge

• The sci-fi adventure Scavengers Reign is an anomalous alien wonder by Toussaint Egan, Polygon

• Scavengers Reign Might Be the Most Underrated Show of the Year by Zach Kram, The Ringer

MUSIC

• “Interstellar Outer Space” by Anderson East, Maybe We Never Die (2021)

• “Slime Creatures from Outer Space” by “Weird Al” Yankovic, Dare to Be Stupid (1985)

GOBBLEDYCARES

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• National Center for Transgender Equality: transequality.org

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