"Alien: Earth" is a TV series based in the Alien universe. There are some well-known names and themes in play, but also many new twists and some liberties taken to bend the Alien universe. Some would say bend it too far near breaking point. The story begins in the year 2120 with a gigantic science vessel, USCSS Maginot, that is on a collision course with Earth. The ship is owned by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation. What exactly happened aboard the vessel is a bit of a mystery that is slowly revealed during the show's episodes.
The ship do in fact crash land on Earth on a part of Earth that is being controlled by the Prodigy Corporation, run by the world's youngest trillionaire, Boy Kavalier [Samuel Blenkin]. The ship's cargo consists of a lot of nasty alien life forms collected on a 65 years long travel to the dark corners of space. Yutani [Sandra Yi Sencindiver] obviously wants her ship back including its valuable cargo, but Boy Kavalier has other plans. The alien lifeforms are brought to his private research island for further scientific investigation.
The best parts of the show are actually about all these new alien creatures. The traditional Xenomorphs do what they always do. It is more interesting what the other 4 species do. There are some smart ticks that suck blood, a giant meat eating plant creature, acid spewing flies, and the star of them all, T. Ocellus. It is a nasty parasitic life form that looks like an eye with tentacles. It is ridiculously entertaining and very intelligent too. Oh, the great memes it has spawned.
The show also covers artificial intelligence and the human search for immortality. Prodigy has found a new revolutionary way to transfer a human mind to an artificial body. These new creatures are called Hybrids. Also present in the universe are Cyborgs, humans with mechanical body parts. The last variant are Synths with artificial body and mind, like the androids in the Alien movies. On the Prodigy island we follow Wendy [Sydney Chandler] as she is transferred from her sick dying child body to a new life as a hybrid with a very ugly haircut. Later 5 additional kids are made into hybrids in the same way. The kids are known as "The Lost Boys" because the show makes a lot of references to "Peter Pan" [1904].
Artificial beings and nasty alien life forms and mega corporations fighting each other? What could possibly go wrong in this universe?
Some of the locations look really great. The USCSS Maginot has a lot of the look from the original "Alien" [1979] movie. The research island is a great location too, and so is the Weyland-Yutani facility with the Japanese touches to it. The crash site however looks like a Temu crash site.
The actors are quite good all around. Real humans, cyborgs, synths and hybrid kids. All of them do well, but the alien life-forms do even better. Well, not the Xenomorphs. They are kind of fucked up. More on that later.
The cyborg vs. synth scenes are cool. Morrow [Babou Ceesay] is a cyborg, who was aboard the USCSS Maginot. He is pretty badass with his mechanical arm that can do quite a few tricks. Prodigy has a synth in their staff, Kirsh [Timothy Olyphant], who is also very interesting. He seems very inspired by Roy Batty from "Blade Runner" [1982]. These 2 characters are among the best on the show.
Boy Kavalier is a fucking barefoot hippie. He is apparently very smart, but on the show he really mostly appears to be impulsive on a level where he becomes retarded. He is really annoying and I spent most of the show's duration hoping for some nasty alien creature to violate him.
In fact, most characters on the show are fucking retards. Most of the crew on the USCSS Maginot were retards, but maybe retards are all you can get when you run your missions with a "crew expendable" policy. How the fuck they managed to capture the creatures - and (almost) make it back to Earth with them - is a big mystery. Several of The Lost Boys are also fucking retards. Yes, they are children, but did they really have to be that retarded too?
Wendy on the other hand ends up having superpowers. She is ultra intelligent and she can control everything on the network: computers, electric doors, Synths, TVs, and she can even speak "Xeno". Yes, she can talk to the Xenomorphs. Not only can she speak with them, she can fucking control them. One of the Xenos becomes a trained dog, rather than the nasty creature we have always known it to be from the movies. This is a very bad move from the writers. It is fucking with everything we know of the Xenomorphs and I hate it. It doesn't help that the Xenos look a bit like a man in a suit. A show about Aliens that fuck up the Aliens. Not a perfect situation.
The show begins well with establishing the universe. The mystery aboard the USCSS Maginot is entertaining, the hybrids are interesting in the beginning. Unfortunately the pacing is quite uneven. Some episodes are rather meh or just too long. The show is also inconsistent. Sometimes the Xenos are fast and deadly, sometimes they can't catch a human casually running down a corridor. The worst thing is however how the show ends. It ends on a fucking cliffhanger. Not only is it a cliffhanger, it smells really bad of Daenerys horse-cunt from "Game of Thrones" [2011-2019]. "What do we do now?" Wendy: "Now we rule!". Jebus fucking Christ.
Nothing really finds any conclusion in the end, it is just a gigantic mess of loose ends. This is not the way to end a show after it's first season. You've been watching 8 episodes and you don't get any reward in the end. Even if they may pick it up in a possible Season 2, I felt really disappointed with the last episode. I'd much rather see a stand-alone movie with T. Ocellus. This creature was the real star of the show. I'll just try to forget how it could understand what 3.14 means, another example of idiotic writing on the show.
Is the show gory? Not really. Many of the killings are done off-screen or it just happens so fast on shaky-cam that you can barely see a thing. Wham-bam, everybody is dead. Speaking of things off-screen, a thing I began wondering about were the seconds of black screen between some of the scenes. It looks like a way to make it easier to insert commercials during an episode? Useful for subscriptions with commercials? No matter what the reason is, it surely started to annoy me.
I end up on a 3/6 rating. I can't deny I was being entertained for a portion of the total runtime. "Alien: Earth" is a lightweight show. Do not expect clever sci-fi storytelling like the amazing "Westworld" [2016-2022] show, that HBO so pathetically cancelled before it's final season. Do not expect much respect for the original Alien creatures either. Don't try to make this show fit in on the established Alien timeline and events in the original Alien movies and prequels. Your brain might explode. If you however lower your expectations and only look for entertainment, then you might like it. Maybe more than I did...
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TV Series Title: Alien: Earth
Season: 1
Episodes: 8
Creator: Noah Hawley
Directors: Noah Hawley, Dana Gonzales, Ugla Hauksdóttir
This Release: 2025
Genres: Sci-Fi, Horror, Action
Actors: Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Samuel Blenkin, Essie Davis, David Rysdahl, Babou Ceesay, Timothy Olyphant, Adarsh Gourav, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Adrian Edmondson, Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Richa Moorjani, Karen Aldridge
Movie Format: Streaming
Movie Label: Disney+
Content Type: Movie Review
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Updated: 2025-09-26 18:29
Created: 2025-09-26 15:50
