Alien: Earth
2025
8.5/10
I binged this series yesterday at home on Hulu.
The main premise of the series is around the future of Cyborgs, Synthetics and Hybrids in the franchise. The start of the first episode cleared up a bunch of questions on the Weyland-Yutani Corp. that has come up in the first 3 Alien films that are canon along with Prometheus/Covenant films and recent Romulus film.
The series takes place about 2 years prior to Alien (1977). Because of this, this series opens some questions with events in that film that should be answered in future seasons of this series.
Suspense and action is presented well throughout the episodes. There really isn’t a slow episode that can be labeled as “filler”. Every episode and scene keeps your eyes glued to the screen.
There are a number of stand out characters in the series that are presented well. If you haven’t seen it, the Cyborg “Morrow” is a highlight. You will think the Alien Xenomorph would be the highlight enemy of the series, but there is an Eye Octopus alien that steals the series. I was highly impressed with this alien.
VFX/SFX is at movie theater level. The series doesn’t look cheap.
With how the season ended, like I pointed out earlier in my review, it opens up some questions. It doesn’t look like Disney is gonna leave us hanging, so being this series takes place 2 years before Alien (1977) it looks like this series might play out like “Rogue One” with its future series finale leading directly into Alien.
Definitely looking forward to what Disney has planned for the franchise and this series.
Synopsis
When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.