What Did You Think of the ‘Alien: Earth’ Premiere?

It’s not every day that a beloved sci-fi franchise gets a long-awaited TV series, but today is one of those days. The first two episodes of Alien: Earth are now on Hulu and FX, and fans can finally see what happens when the man behind Fargo teams up with Ridley Scott to make an Alien show.

That man is Noah Hawley, who wrote and directed Tuesday’s pilot episode, “Neverland,” and wrote the second episode, “Mr. October.” Hawley has been thinking about the show for over five years, which is when Disney first announced it was teaming up with him to bring Alien to television. To put that in perspective, it was literally announced at the same time as Y: The Last Man, which has since been made, aired, canceled, and mostly forgotten. (Sorry, Y, it was a valiant effort.)

Now after years of tantalizing quotes, questions, and curiosity about what a Hawley Alien show could look like, it’s finally here. And we think it’s great. We’ll have a full, in-depth, spoiler-filled recap of episodes one and two on Wednesday morning. But, for now, since it’s been almost half a decade since we first heard about this show, we thought we’d give you a chance to talk about it as soon as possible.

What did you think? Did the show live up to those expectations? What about the balance of making the show feel Alien but also feel unique to itself? Did you think things got taken up a notch in that second episode once, well, no spoilers just yet? Let’s just say there’s a good reason why FX chose to debut not one but two episodes of the show. Once you see the second episode, you’ll know why.

Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diem Camille, and Moe Bar-El. The first two episodes are now on Hulu and FX, and new episodes will debut at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu and 8 p.m. ET/PT on FX for the rest of the season.

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