Did anyone watch the TV show Raised By Wolves and think it was antinatalist? Spoilers about the show ahead fyi

I recently rewatched both seasons (season 2 was such a mess) and to me it was about the imperative for living creatures to sustain and proliferate life hinged on the principle that we must.

Mother is a war robot reprogrammed for caregiving and to keep her children alive and thriving at all costs she will destroy anything that gets in her path in fulfilling this mission. Father is a reprogrammed service model, he represents passive fatherhood, working to support the family, taking instructions from Mother and he’s even been programmed with dad jokes. The children they grow synthetically die in various ways due to the extremely inhospitable environment and inexperienced parenting, leaving one survivor. But Mother’s full potential is released when she goes into the Simulation, interacts with her memories and gets pregnant having sim sex with her creator. She gives birth to the necro-snake and despite being programmed for exactly this she can’t love her own baby.

Sue had a miscarriage earlier in life and when she realises that she’s taken the identity of someone who had a son she assumes caregiving responsibilities instinctively. Sue represents selfless motherhood, she’s driven by her own natural maternal instincts to care for Paul. She killed Paul’s real mother and stole her face to ensure her own survival so she arrived at this position via a selfish instinct for self preservation. Paul’s previous parents neglected him so we’re supposed to see the net good in Sue. Paul gets turned into a bioweapon by The Trust and when Sue believes that Sol received her prayer to rescue Paul from death she’s guided to her own death. A seed implants itself in her palm and she becomes the vessel for a tree to grow. But she’s still alive within the tree, knows she’s become a vessel for evil and begs to be burned.

Tempest was raped while she was in the Simulation by a cleric who thought he was doing the work of Sol. Motherhood is thrust on her and she understandably does not want it. Mother regards the pregnancy as a gift - imagine being adopted as a child by a maternity android after you’ve been raped and she’s like congratulations on the pregnancy. Pronatalists often adhere to the “life is a gift” message so strongly that they want rape survivors to celebrate pregnancy just like this. But Mother also discarded her own child when it was born a monstrosity.

Anyway, what did you think when you watched it? If not antinatalist I’d say it was definitely throwing up questions about pronatalism