Overview

• Alien: Earth launched on FX and Hulu on August 12 with two episodes and will release new installments weekly.
• In the series opener, medic Joe watches Ice Age: Continental Drift in his Prodigy City apartment, recalling childhood screenings with his presumed-dead sister Marcy.
• Marcy’s consciousness, now inhabiting a hybrid called Wendy, secretly hijacks a Prodigy robot to quote “Or face your furry what?” as an in-joke signal to Joe.
• The Ice Age cameo leverages shared 20th Century Studios ownership to seamlessly integrate the animated film as an emotional worldbuilding device.
• Critics have suggested that the Ice Age inclusion could symbolically foreshadow Earth-scale catastrophes in the Alien universe, though the series has yet to confirm this theory.