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A ‘Dazzlingly Haunting Epic,’ ‘Alien: Earth’ May Be ‘Alienating’ To Some: See Critics’ reviews

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Last updated: August 6, 2025 3:17 am
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(VOR News) – Regarding the reviews that are starting to surface for Alien: Earth, some reviewers are truly excited about the movie.

Rotten Tomatoes has given the drama series available on FX an 89 percent rating, while Metacritic has given it an 86. These two ratings are really favorable. It is set in Prodigy City in 2120, two years prior to the events of the first Alien movie, which was a noteworthy motion picture.

The year 2120 is when the events take place. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race to produce new artificial life are the main focus of the film Alien: Earth, which was developed by Noah Hawley, who won an Emmy for his work on Fargo. Hawley’s work on Fargo earned him the Emmy as well.

As Brandon Yu claims in a piece for The Wrap, “Noah Hawley’s dazzlingly haunting epic is all about what exactly defines us as human.”

The London Evening Standard’s Martin Robinson claims that “Alien: Earth is the big win, managing to finally deliver on the promise the franchise has always had.”

Robinson asserts that “Alien: Earth is the big win.”

Robinson is in agreement with this statement. In addition, according to Alan Sepinwall of Rolling Stone, “As he did with Fargo, turning a classic and beloved movie into a long-running, award-winning anthology series, Hawley has taken a concept that has no business working for television and shaped it into something thrilling, strange, and surprising.”

However, trying to please everyone is not possible.

In a piece for Slant Magazine, Justin Clark describes the showrunner’s approach to the franchise as “disorienting” and “alienating,” even if he readily acknowledges that it is “fascinating.”

Dominic Baez laments that the movie Alien: Earth fails to strike the right balance in an article he wrote for the Seattle Times. Instead of reaching its full potential, it spends a great deal of time crafting a story that, by the end of the eight-episode season, has only partially fulfilled its promise.

In a similar vein, IndieWire reviewer Ben Travers notes that the show “doesn’t always keep its footing,” especially in contrast to Hawley’s portrayal of Fargo. The notion that the software is not always stable is supported by Travers’ assertion.

Sydney Chandler is the lead performer in the ensemble cast of Alien: Earth. She portrays Wendy, an adult woman with childlike cognition. The actor that plays Kirsh, a synthetic being that acts as Wendy’s guide, is Timothy Olyphant.

Wendy Lawther’s brother, Alex Lawther, is also known as “Hermit.”

The actor in charge of playing Boy Kavalier, a young CEO who is commonly spotted going about barefoot, is Samuel Blenkin.

Babou Ceesay, Adrian Edmondson, David Rysdahl, Essie Davis, Lily Newmark, Erana James, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Kit Young, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver are just a few of the many performers who appear in the extended cast.

In an interview with Variety, Alison Herman said that although the new characters are not “as flashy as the voracious monsters,” they are a deeper ore to mine. And Nick Schager of The Daily Beast wrote, stating, “Chandler’s wide-eyed and composed performance expresses the show’s central conflicts between thought and emotion, biology and technology, and childhood and adulthood, and it grows deeper as the material tangles her (and her cohorts) up in constricting knots.”

At a press conference held not so long ago, FX declared their intention to make Alien: Earth their next Shōgun. The high-budget epic Shōgun draws a sizable audience and takes home accolades at award events.

According to FX, Alien: Earth will be their next Shōgun. The first two episodes of the show will be accessible on FX and Hulu starting on August 12. Following that, they will be televised every Tuesday until the program’s conclusion on September 23.

SOURCE: YN

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