This article contains spoilers for the season 1 finale of "Alien: Earth."
It's been a wild ride through "Alien: Earth" season 1. Over the course of the eight episodes on FX, we've had a deluge of Peter Pan analogies, hard-rockin' needle drops, Sid the Sloth jump scares, and MLB highlight reels. Oh yeah, and I think here might have actually been a Xenomorph in there, too.
Seriously, though, I don't think anyone could have predicted the bizarre hodgepodge of vibes we got from the first live-action "Alien" TV show. Yet, it's kind of fantastic, even more so because this season has dared to carve out its own unique identity, parallel to but different from the films. It makes it even more exciting to know that showrunner Noah Hawley has a plan in place for a potential season 2. And given how