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ALIEN: EARTH SERIES REVIEW
The common online geek response to a hyped up writer/director being giving the reins to a beloved classic sci-fi franchise is “get away from her you bitch!”. With a track record that includes the Hannibal and Fargo TV Series, at least some geeks were excited to give Noah Hawley a crack at the Alien franchise with the brand new Hulu series Alien: Earth. A prequel to the first Alien movie, Alien: Earth begins in a world with massive intergalactic corporations battling for the right to monopolize their own personal brand of immortality. Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) is developing a conscious transition from the human brain into a synthetic one. On Prodigy island, children who are dying from incurable conditions are used as guinea pigs to further Boy Kavalier’s technology and create the perfect synthetic model. Wendy (Sydney Chandler) is his most prized possession and successful product. When a spaceship owned by a rival corporation (the always in the mix Weyland-Yutani) crashes into a city that Boy Cavalier owns, he sees this as a perfect opportunity to test his band of lost children in the bodies of synths in a retrieve and rescue situation. Wendy wanted this adventure to happen because she recognized her biological brother Joe (Alex Lawther) at the crash site while watching footage of it. Unfortunately for Earth, the ship that crashed has a bunch of gnarly aliens and a cyborg survivor named Morrow (Babou Ceesay) who’s working overtime for Yutani. Bradly, Kate, and Lewayne praise the incredibly expensive and Hollywood blockbuster look of the sets and the rugged good looks of Timothy Olyphant playing a synth named Kirsh. Then they dive into their own existential crisis that every franchise prequel can’t avoid: questioning the purpose of its own existence.
CREATED BY: Noah Hawley
STARRING: Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Jonathan Ajayi, David Rysdahl, Diêm Camille, Moe Bar-El, Adrian Edmondson, Timothy Olyphant, Sandra Yi Sencindiver, Kit Young
YOUR REVIEWERS
Bradly Martin (Screener Squad Boss, Eye on the Prize, Breakfast Pub)
Bradly Martin was born in the united states and grew up on a healthy diet of sports, films, and books. A rather shy lad who kept to himself, Bradly soon discovered the best way to know a person was to know what people liked. Throughout the years Bradly became a fan of many things and a fanatic of none. From Doctor Dre, to Doctor Strange and the who’s who of Whos. From Playstation to the Dreamcast and Marvel to DC. From LeBron James to James Bond and Lord of the Rings to Lord Palmerston (or Pitt the Elder if you agree with Wade Boggs) and is a huge fan of dad jokes and randomly obscure Simpsons references. Armed with a vast knowledge of comics, films, and pop culture. Bradly traveled the world making friends and sharing takes. As a young man Bradly married the love of his life young and grew older every year with each new child brought into the brood. If trends continue, Scientists predict that .2% of Canada (where Bradly and family reside) will be populated by Bradly’s children by the year 2029. You can hear him leading and listening to his favorite critics on the Screener Squad and maybe even providing some comments of his own.
Kate Chambers (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)
Kate is a certified horror fiend and Horse Girl™. Her name isn’t short for anything. A native Austinite, she graduated with a BFA in Film Production from the University of Colorado Boulder then returned to the Lone Star State to make her home amid the cinephiles of the Alamo Drafthouse and the Austin Film Society. In her spare time, you can find her either down at the barn with her noble steed Jazz, watching as many movies as possible (often at work), cuddling with her pair of black cats and writing horror scripts, or nursing a beer in any available body of water… or doing Duolingo, where she’s currently on a 1000+ day streak.
Lewayne White (Screener Squad)
Lewayne’s earliest memories are of watching movies and reading comics, which instilled in him a sense of wonder, a vivid imagination, and unrealistic expectations. It also means he spends a lot of time watching movies, writing scripts for them, and trying to get them made. He lives in the middle of middle America after landing there as a child, and has remained there mainly because he hates packing.
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