This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth , now streaming on Hulu.
After last week’s flashback to all the poor decisions that killed the crew of the Maginot , “The Fly” brings us back to the present-day action at Neverland, where various adults, synthetics, and eyeball monsters conspire to make life very difficult — and, in one case, impossible — for the Lost Boys. Smee complains at one point that, “Being grown-up sucks.” But it’s even worse when you still have the emotional intelligence of a child, and are treated that way by the genuine grown-ups (and synths and possessed sheep) around you.
By the end of the episode, Isaac is dead, Nibs has had part of her memory wiped, and Slightly has been manipulated by Morrow into letting one of the face-huggers tu