Wendy Hears Creatures Speak in 'Alien: Earth' Season Preview
The series explores uploading human consciousness into synthetic bodies while confronting AI threats and Xenomorph dangers, premiering with two episodes on FX and Disney+ in Canada.
- Alien: Earth, a new TV series created by Noah Hawley, premiered with two episodes on August 12, 2025, on FX and FX on Hulu.
- The series is set in 2120, two years before the 1979 Alien film, and centers on Wendy, a dying girl whose consciousness transfers into a synthetic body called a hybrid by Prodigy Corp.
- The story involves a spaceship crash on Prodigy’s island that frees deadly alien eggs, with Wendy and other hybrids encountering alien threats amid corporate power struggles.
- Critics commend the series for its mix of intense character drama and horror elements, as well as its heavy metal soundtrack; after viewing six episodes, Rory Mellon described it as the standout new show of the year.
- Alien: Earth expands the franchise into long-form storytelling exploring AI, mortality, and corporate greed, suggesting a deepening of the Alien universe’s thematic scope.
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Alien: Earth Episodes 1 & 2 Review
Alien: Earth premieres with two episodes on Tuesday, August 12, and drops one episode per week after that.FX dropped the first two episodes of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth, and it’s clear from the beginning what this series is trying to do. It all at once pays homage to the original Alien film while also carving its own niche into the lore of a decades-old franchise which is not an easy trick to pull off. And so, episodes 1 and 2 of the series are…
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