Alien: Earth (2025)

Alien: Earth f*cking rules. I’ve only seen the first episode, but holy hell—I'm in Xenomorph heaven. We get a sharp, fascinating AI–synth–cyborg storyline, a massive nostalgia burger with a ship that is the spitting image of the Nostromo's interior, and and and … AT LAST! ALIENS REACH EARTH! Two years before Ash tries to deep throat Ripley with a rolled up magazine. 

I’ve been waiting for this moment since I walked out of the theater in 1979, wondering what would happen if Ripley made it home with a facehugger egg stashed in her lifepod.

I thought this was going to be a low-budget, character-driven series with no Xenomorph reveal until the last episode. Nope! This had a feature-film budget. It was grand and epic in scale, and we got a face hugger in a specimen jar with a shit-ton of other alien life, all within the first 10 minutes. We see our first full-sized Xenomorph by the 30-minute mark. 

Noah Hawley (Fargo, Legion) is back at the helm, weaving corporate dystopia, hybrid humanity, and grounded horror into something that feels both huge and intimate. Ridley Scott’s all over this with his obsession with AI and androids. Bladerunner is firmly stuck in his head. Weta’s effects give the creatures real weight, and the world-building is rich: set in 2120, on an Earth run by five mega-corporations.

It’s gritty, tense, and cinematic, with the perfect lived-in look that made the original Alien feel real, now in glorious 4K.