SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details from the season 1 finale of Alien: Earth on FX.

Noah Hawley’s ambitious contribution to the Alien franchise wrapped its first season on FX by delivering exactly what Sigourney Weaver waxed on about earlier this month at TIFF. The original heroine of Alien said she admired how Hawley’s sci-fi is not “Alien-centric….the scope of it is so much bigger.”

True that. The eighth episode titled “The Real Monsters” featured the Xenomorph, raging killer that it is, as more of an undercard rather than the main event, as Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and her fellow Lost Boys take control of Boy Kavalier’s operation. The eye midge may have implanted itself elsewhere and there’s no telling where those other icky creatures from Prodigy’s labs have scurried of

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