• The modern feminist way to look at it is how the description did interpret it to be a homage to women.
• A more holistic way is to see it as nature versus (hu)man.
• and if that series overall is too slow for you; it can be seen like a revival of 70s movies: It is slow paced and not necessary sensical or logical.

But that exactly may be the point as nature runs its chaotic slow course whilst society frantically tries to put things "in order".