Alien: Earth

The entire show is like this: a bunch of teenagers fantasizing about suddenly gaining superpowers to handle all the adults they hate. One of them accidentally gets a vicious dog, she encourages the dog to bite and kill anyone who gets in her way, and finally sits on the roof declaring: "We rule."

Teenagers believe they have grenade in their hands makes them invincible, allowing them to act like adults but without the responsibilities or consequences of adult behavior.

Like many, I had really high hopes for a new take on the franchise. And elements of the show did live up to my expectations, albeit only to be deeply overshadowed by a mess of a plot, and characters that made no sense.

I enjoyed the glimpses we got into the world-building with the mega-corporations, I enjoyed the creativity put into the new alien species, and I even enjoyed the take on the immortality trope as presented in the show.

But despite my readiness to check my disbelief at the door, no amount of blind-eye turning could allow me to just accept the stupidity of the decisions made by characters, or the nonsense plot holes that achieved nothing that a little more thought and care in the writing could have.

All that being said, episode 5 was exceptional. That alone could've been rewritten as a standalone cinematic sequel to the original Alien and Aliens, and IMO would've been accepted as a worthy finale to the trilogy.

The best part, and maybe one of the only grown up scene of the show so far, which is the story of the ship carring the monsters, is abruptly fast forwarded so they can get fast to the part they can play and be Disney kids.

They are super fast, they can jump from the moon, yeah yeah, action starts and I was surprised they didnt sit on the floor and cried.

It is kinda of fair their excuse to use kids because of the growing brain and so, but in a super future world where you have no clue a giant space ship is gonna hit your planet, and you have technology from a 90's future perspective gives me the impression that reasonability was not the priority, but rather extract money from every age group possible.

Aimed to please shareholders, not fans.

Plain horrible writing.

This sucks, because I was really hoping this would be good. I mean I'm a huge Alien fan and I've even like the objectively lesser entries into the franchise but this... This is bad on a whole 'nother level.

Let's start with the dialogue. Everyone has to say what they're thinking or doing all the time. There's a moment in episode 7 when Smee (or whatever he's called) literally says to the camera "I only did x because I thought y!" And I facepalmed loud enough that my neighbors could hear it.

I'm not sitting on TikTok while watching the show, but the show is treating me like I am.

The characterizations here are also ridiculous. Nobody is consistent. Wendy changes motivations and intentions like 50 times throughout the season. People flip on a dime because the script needs them to. Hermit for example has a big problem with the alien killing soldiers... until the final episode when he's standing in the same room as the alien as it's killing three soldiers and doesn't even say a word. Doesn't even acknowledge that it's happening.

Also, plot armor. Everyone has it. Nobody dies. Nobody you care about at least. Why? I don't know. No idea. I mean we don't care about these characters at all so maybe the writers know that. The worst offender of this plot armor is once again... DING-DING-DING! Hermit. He survives a xenomorph encounter like three or four times in just the first two episodes. Which becomes more ridiculous the further into the show you get because the xenomorph can wipe out a room in like 1 second flat.

This show sucks. That's all there is to it. So disappointed in Noah Hawley and the crew. Did you guys even care about this at all?

First of all: the production is excellent. Great atmosphere and cinematogrophie. I give that 5 stars. BUT... the story is absolutely BS. What idiot came up with the children being the superheros?! I really wanted to like this... but i ended this series for me at episode 4 when the totally unlikeable character Wendy started talking in the "alien"-language. I laughed out loud and stopped watching.

I had expectations like the Aliens actually invading Earth. Roaming throu the streets of Manhattan and doing their Alien-thing. Something like a mix of "Cloverfield" and "Jurassic Park". Instead we got a mix of "Stand by me" and "The Goonies" in space.