Scavengers Reign review
An overwhelming love for making up creatures and great music really carry proceedings in a series with, on the whole, middling character art and a lot of strange craft flaws. Individual scenes are generally well-put-together, but episodes are often just a progression of scenes one after the other without the macro pacing that's needed to cohere. It kind of became annoying how much flora & fauna on the show had clear, designed uses as -tools-, cool as they may be. The voice performances are also just slightly off the approach of an acclimated voice actor, which is understandable and typical of live-action actors (and/or, perhaps a production which didn't have the resources or coordination to get the voice direction Right).
And this is kind of the way things are after the tech-disruption boom, isn't it? Big money gets thrown around, unconnected to as much sense as it should have, and productions happen with some smart people making smart things despite a lack of connection to the tradition of the thing. And maybe some of those traditions would have tied this show down and cut some of its passion out - it's not an idealized process. Maybe some self-editing and restraints would help it hone itself and highlight its passion even more, too.
Regardless, at the end of the day, Scavengers Reign is an ingenious ecology-centered show that is most interested in illustrating a bizarre world with novel critters and alien plants, and it does that like very few things ever will do.