Every once in a while, pockets of the internet collectively choose to put full weight behind reviving a show that was quite well-liked and got cancelled after a season or more. Jericho, Community, and Young Justice are just a handful of examples, and the newest show to join those ranks is last year’s animated sci-fi horror series Scavengers Reign. The series, which first premiered on Adult Swim and Max and has now jumped ship over to Netflix, centers on three groups of survivors from a ship that’s crashed on an alien planet.
io9 called it one of , which I stand by: from start to finish, Scavengers Reign is a great series that feels unlike anything else under the Adult Swim/Max banners, animated or otherwise. It has a killer atmosphere and is consistently engaging, even in the quieter parts, and is constantly topping itself on a visual level. For anyone that’s longed for an animated series for adults that isn’t just people constantly cursing or saying crude things, this show will scratch your itch and then some.
If there’s anywhere this show would feel at home, it’s Netflix, the Everything Streamer. For all its faults, shows or movies that get added to that platform often do well there once they’re on the eyes of a wider audience, like Manifest or Community. With animation fans really taking a shine to the series and feeling more than a little spiteful towards Max for the cancellation, it’s likely Scavengers will do well on Netflix over time.
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