I gather that this might be its best chance of getting a second season, after being cancelled by HBO Max. So if you have Netflix you might want to fire that up and get watching.

this show is among the best the genre has to offer, you are truly missing out if you skip it

if you like weird alien ecologies, this is a show for you. if you are part of the broken, obsolete, or defective robot community, this is a show for you. if you like wallowing in the slimy overlap between sci-fi conceits and ugly human emotion, this is the show for you.

i respect those things but i’m not into any of them

is it ok for me to skip it

I will add though that a big reason I am into this show is the diverse cast and characters. That's why I've given the IMDB listing so you can all see the talent that is involved.

It's great to see characters of colour and voice actors of colour in a highly rated science fiction show (it has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.) Plus one of the main characters is a lesbian. Like this is the kind of science fiction that is simply inclusive, no big deal, everyone gets equal odds at being absorbed and transformed by the alien ecology in wonderful and terrible ways.

I also enjoy the show in general, not least because I like nature and the natural world, and the animation is constantly alive with small, weird made up critters that aren't aways explained, but that I immediately feel deeply curious about. Because I feel intensely curious about any animal I don't know. Like even if there was 0 plot I would enjoy watching these creatures and trying to deduce something about how they work.

I am the kind of person who watches Star Wars, sees a weird creature, turns to my partner and says: I wonder what that thing eats? I derive sincere enjoyment from trying to infer an entire planetary ecology from a bantha.

So this show is like crack for me. I appreciate the characters (and again, especially their diversity), and the interesting storylines they go though, some of which are genuinely moving. AND ALSO, beyond the expected frisson of horror or wonder, I also don't mind too much if the humans get predated, parasited, transformed, or whatever. Because I am so much enjoying the whole process of figuring out how the animals and plants work, what I can infer about their ecology... I am enjoying it a lot.

Not everyone's cup of tea, for sure. But I am mostly posting this for the folks for whom it might also be relevant.