Alien: Earth season finale recap: 'The Real Monsters'
The Lost Boys try to seize control, and Kirsh and Morrow finally throw down
My review of the Alien: Earth season finale, "The Real Monsters" — with spoilers — coming up just as soon as I hide in the sheep container...
"I don't know what I am." -Wendy
What a curious first season of television this has been. At times, it's been relentless and thrilling, at others sluggish. It's a show set in the Alien universe, with Xenomorphs and synthetics and Weyland-Yutani, yet it seems most interested in its own concepts. Sydney Chandler's the lead, and Timothy Olyphant the biggest name in the cast; both are good, but the series' breakout characters have been Morrow and... an eyeball? The show is so packed with ideas and style that I've always felt engaged by it. But the Maginot flashback episode — perhaps not coincidentally, the one that leaned most heavily into traditional Alien franchise territory — is the only previous installment that felt like Hawley completely hit the target he was aiming at(*).
(*) Well, almost completely. Even that one had some sketchiness involving how the Xenomorph was depicted.
