Overview

• Alien: Earth premiered on August 12 with its first two episodes airing on FX and streaming on Hulu in the U.S., with subsequent installments releasing weekly through September 23 and international streaming on Disney+.
• Set two years before the original Alien, the plot is set in 2120 when the Weyland-Yutani vessel USCSS Maginot crashes in Prodigy-controlled New Siam, unleashing a Xenomorph alongside newly imagined alien species.
• Sydney Chandler stars as Wendy, the first ‘hybrid’—a synthetic body housing a dying child’s consciousness—who leads a squad of similarly reanimated ‘Lost Boys’ and anchors the series’ bioethical and emotional conflicts.
• Showrunner Noah Hawley deliberately sidesteps the Prometheus and Covenant backstory to deliver a self-contained narrative steeped in retro-futuristic design and practical creature effects, with Ridley Scott endorsing the production’s faithfulness to original set elements.
• Early critical response is strongly positive, with a 94% Rotten Tomatoes critics rating praising the series’ atmosphere, thematic ambition and hands-on effects work.