When Your Child Downloads Feelings and Your Pet Alien Downloads You
This week on the podcast, Brian and Darryl are talking Alien: Earth.
Episode Index
Intro: 0:07
Alien: Earth:12:30
Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu)
Out of 10 When Your Child Downloads Feelings, and Your Pet Alien Downloads You
Darryl: 6.8/10
Brian: 7.34/10
Episode 1 – “Neverland”
Summary:
In 2120, five companies control Earth and the colonized Solar System, including the recently founded Prodigy Corporation. The USCSS Maginot, a Weyland-Yutani C-class deep space research vessel, approaches Earth after a 65-year expedition to obtain extra-terrestrial specimens, among them facehuggers. On Earth, at Prodigy’s Neverland research island, a terminally ill child named Marcy Hermit becomes the first hybrid, having her consciousness transferred to an adult synthetic, and renames herself Wendy. Adjusting to her new body with the assistance of synthetic mentor Kirsh, Wendy oversees several other children who undergo the procedure. A malfunction compromises the Maginot’s navigation, placing it on a collision course with Earth. Some specimens get loose, and a grown Xenomorph kills most of the crew. It crashes into a tower in Prodigy City, New Siam, where Wendy’s human brother Joe Hermit works as a medic and corporate soldier. CEO Boy Kavalier asserts that Maginot’s contents now belong to Prodigy, and deploys Kirsh, Wendy, and the other hybrids to assist with search and rescue to test their enhanced capabilities. Security officer Morrow, who survived the crash in a reinforced panic room, moves to protect the cargo and detains two Prodigy soldiers, who are killed by a leech-like specimen. Wendy remarks to Kirsh that she wants to save her brother from death.
Writer & Director:
Crafted and helmed by series creator Noah Hawley.
Cast:
Sydney Chandler as Wendy, the first hybrid (a person who has their human consciousness transferred into a synthetic body) and Joe’s sister, formerly known as Marcy
Florence Bensberg as Marcy, a terminally ill 11-year-old, and Wendy’s original human form
Alex Lawther as Private Joseph D. Hermit, a medic for the Prodigy Corporation Security Service, and Wendy’s brother
Essie Davis as Dame Sylvia, an employee of the Prodigy Corporation and Arthur’s wife
Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier, the CEO of the Prodigy Corporation and the world’s youngest trillionaire
Babou Ceesay as Morrow, the USCSS Maginot’s cyborg (human with some synthetic parts) security officer
Adarsh Gourav as Slightly, a hybrid
Rishi Kuppa as Aarush, a terminally ill 12-year-old from Mumbai, and Slightly’s original human form
Erana James as Curly, a hybrid
Lily Newmark as Nibs, a hybrid
Jonathan Ajayi as Smee, a hybrid
David Rysdahl as Arthur Sylvia, a scientist and Dame Sylvia’s husband
Diêm Camille as Siberian, a Prodigy Corporation Security Service soldier
Moe Bar-El as Rashidi, a Prodigy Corporation Security Service soldier
Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins, a senior employee of the Prodigy Corporation
Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh, the Prodigy Corporation’s synthetic chief scientist, who serves as Wendy’s mentor and trainer
Air Date:
August 12, 2025—simultaneously on FX and FX on Hulu.
Rating & Viewership:
Nielsen: Approx. 0.589 million U.S. households; 0.11 share among 18–49 demographic.
Critical reception: overwhelmingly positive—IGN praised its franchise integration, Vulture gave a perfect 5/5 stars, Collider rated it 9/10, TV Fanatic also 5/5.
Episode 2 – “Mr. October”
Summary:
Boy tells his colleague, Dame Sylvia, that he formed the Hybrid project to compete with artificial intelligence, and has granted Wendy additional abilities as he wishes to create a person smarter than him. He declines Weyland-Yutani’s request to secure Maginot’s proprietary contents, warning any incursion on his territory will be considered a hostile act. Joe is chased by a Xenomorph and separated from his colleagues. It
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