Warning: spoilers for Season 1, Episode 8 – “The Real Monsters” are hanging in suspense.
I almost feel like saying I was personally slighted by Noah Hawley and the rest of the gang on FX’s Alien: Earth’s crew. That’s not because I disapprove of the developments in Season 1’s big finale, “The Real Monsters,” because I don’t. However, laying down that massive cliffhanger without a Season 2 renewal feels like being ditched at the annual town picnic. Only as we saw inAlien: Earth Episode 5 – “The Fly,” there are things a lot more lethal than mosquitos buzzing about. Let me explain.
Wendy And The Lost Boys Are In Control Now
Wendy (Sydney Chandler), if that’s even her name anymore, is officially fed up with the adults in the room. Alien: Earth’s head strong heroine united her fellow Hybrids in a show of force, and captured the figures that have been using them as pawns this whole time. She also reconciled with brother Joe (Alex Lawther), which is a relief as I didn’t want to see those two on bad terms.
Now with two Xenomorphs under her control, our protagonist has a simple answer for what happens next: “Now we rule.” As Alien: Earth’s final act sees Weyland-Yutani forces flying in to recover their property, Wendy issues this proclamation while Kid Cavalier (Samuel Blenkin), Dame Sylvia (Essie Davis), Kirsch (Timothy Olyphant), Atom Eins (Adrian Edmondson), and Morrow (Babou Ceesay) are all trapped in a cage.
And that is where Season 1 concludes; without any indication of when or if this series extension of the Alien mythos will return! Although there is one more wrinkle that’s about to make for some interesting further developments.
Long Live Arthur Sylvia(?!)
I honestly did not see this coming, pun partially intended. Apparently our friend/ocular anti-hero T. Ocellus has found an unexpected new host! If poor Arthur Sylvia (David Rysdahl) had left Neverland Research Island when he was told, he wouldn’t have had that Chestburster kill him in Alien: Earth’s previous episode “Emergence.” Which leads to how if he hadn’t died already, he wouldn’t have made such a convenient host for this very vicious creeper.
It wasn’t for lack of trying though, as T. Ocellus almost had Joe in its clutches – which was put to a stop by Wendy at the last second. So clearly this specimen had to go somewhere, and it couldn’t return to the sheep from whence it came. This now leaves the Arthur-shaped creature in the room as the potential new big bad in Alien: Earth Season 2; as that intelligence smarter than the Boy Genius probably still has an axe to grind with Xenomorph kind.
It is a true shame that Alien: Earth has concluded (for now?), because it’s been a true joy to tune in each week and see what happens next. Though Noah Hawley’s interview with THR seems to indicate that he’s just as anxious to get back to work on the aftermath of this pretty huge swing. If anyone’s feeling nostalgic for Earth already, you can now completely binge Season 1, only on Hulu.
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