"In Alien: Earth, a techbro wunderkind controls 20 percent of the world's continental land mass, and he likes to play God in a secret lab located on a remote island. That's where the trillionaire has engineered a new pathway to human immortality, and given a group of dying children a second chance at life. But the island is also a kind of prison that the young trillionaire's employees cannot easily escape."
"Though Alien: Earth plays with many of the ideas that have defined the franchise since it began with Ridley Scott's Alien, it does so with a novel cheekiness that almost makes it feel like a comedy. The show's most prominent nefarious corporation is run by a manchild called Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blinken) who has named his new human/machine hybrids like Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and Slightly (Adarsh Gourav) after Peter Pan characters."
"He likened the larger franchise's depiction of people working for megacorporations to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, and said that he wanted his series to feel like it was exploring some of those same ideas from a new perspective. Even though this first season takes the franchise in a wildly different direction, it was important to Hawley that Alien: Earth still feels like classic Alien."
Alien: Earth centers on a young trillionaire who controls 20 percent of the world's continental land mass and operates a secret lab on a remote island. The trillionaire engineers a pathway to human immortality and gives dying children a second chance, while the island also functions as a prison for employees. Early test subjects were human, but the latest batch consists of dangerous, intelligent alien creatures. The series plays with classic Alien franchise ideas while adopting a novel, occasionally absurd comic tone. The leader of the nefarious corporation, Boy Kavalier, names human/machine hybrids Wendy and Slightly. The show blends pointed, plausible horror with dark comedy.
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