Alien: Earth Opens with a Terrifying Bang
So, the new series Alien: Earth has just kicked off, and if you’ve seen the first two episodes, you know it doesn’t hold back. We’re talking crashed ships, creepy science experiments, monsters with tentacle-mounted eyeballs, and even a blood-drinking bug. It’s Noah Hawley’s fresh take on the Alien universe, and he’s blending the horror we know with a deeper dive into the world’s politics, tech, and corporate power games.
Also Read:The story drops us two years before the events of the original Alien movie, aboard a Weyland-Yutani science vessel called the Maginot . The ship feels eerily familiar — the cryosleep chambers, the hum of machinery — and it’s filled with dangerous alien specimens, including a Xenomorph. One crew member, Tang, is an openly acknowledged synthetic, but also a creepy one who watches a younger crewmate while she sleeps. Soon, disaster strikes, the Maginot crashes, and we’re thrown into chaos on New Siam.
We meet Morrow, a cyborg security officer, who in one scene locks two soldiers in a lab just as that blood-eating bug slithers into a helmet — and trust me, knowing what it does makes the scene extra squirm-worthy. The crash site becomes the central danger zone, and it’s here that Hawley ramps up both the horror and the mystery.
Meanwhile, in another thread of the story, we follow Boy Kavalier — a young, arrogant corporate prodigy who’s aiming higher than just making smarter synths. His goal? Transplant human consciousness into synthetic bodies. His first test subjects are terminally ill children, nicknamed the “Lost Boys,” including Wendy, a sharp, determined young woman who has just enough physical upgrades to be formidable. Her emotional anchor is her brother Hermit, and when he’s sent to investigate the Maginot wreck, she insists on going along — partly out of guilt, partly out of pure sibling loyalty.
Hawley plays with scale here: there are huge set pieces, tense rescue missions, and unnerving close-ups of alien horrors. Some kills happen off-screen — likely to keep tension high and budgets intact — but when the monsters do show up, they’re grotesque and memorable. One especially nightmarish moment involves that eyeball creature clawing its way out of a cat’s skull.
By the end of Episode 2, Wendy’s reunion with Hermit is cut short when the Xenomorph crashes in, snatches him, and forces her to leap into the wreckage to save him. We know she’s the main character, but the show still manages to make the moment pulse with urgency.
It’s a bold start: part deep-worldbuilding, part survival horror. And while not every moment hits perfectly, the mix of corporate scheming, philosophical questions about identity, and those signature Alien scares makes this a promising — and chilling — new chapter in the saga.
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