Overview

• FX’s Alien: Earth will premiere Tuesday, August 12 at 8/7c on FX and Hulu as the franchise’s first longform TV prequel set on Earth in 2120.
• The series holds an 89% Rotten Tomatoes score from 37 reviews, ranking it third highest in the Alien franchise’s history.
• Noah Hawley’s narrative centers on the Weyland-Yutani vessel Maginot crashing into Prodigy territory, unleashing Xenomorphs and sparking a corporate war.
• Prodigy’s “Lost Boys” program introduces human-synthetic hybrids led by Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and her medic brother Hermit (Alex Lawther) as the story’s emotional core.
• Early reviews highlight the show’s layered worldbuilding, retro-futuristic production design, and an emphasis on tension over gore.