Overview

• Episode 4 centers on Wendy’s emerging ability to perceive and reproduce alien signals, reframing how the series treats contact and threat.
• The hour spotlights a separate parasitic specimen nicknamed the “Eye” (T. Ocellus), presented as an unsettling, host-hijacking presence distinct from Xenomorphs.
• Noah Hawley calls the “Eye” one of the year’s most disturbing creations and details its sucker-driven mobility upgrade from early designs.
• Worldbuilding expands as Earth is shown to be run by five rival megacorporations with carved territories, heightening political stakes over alien assets.
• Reviews single out Ugla Hauksdóttir’s direction and Sydney Chandler’s performance, while some analyses theorize the “Eye” may endanger synthetics—framed as speculation.