New Thing #20 - Alien: Earth

So I finished up the final episode of FX’s Alien: Earth and I have to say… it was OK. It is very well made and has a lot of cool ideas but my main problem with the show is that it worked better IMO as a Blade Runner series than an Alien spinoff. The aliens were kind of the least interesting element of the show and even though I liked some of what they did with the eyeball monster, it didn’t amount to much. The battle between the corporations and the different cyborg/synthetic beings was more interesting to me. I also feel like they made Wendy/Marcy too powerful. The show had too much of “And then Wendy is able too…” alongside the usual horror staple of people doing incredibly dumb things at the worst time. In general, people on the show accepted the existence of these crazy alien species a bit too quickly.

I’m probably in for Season 2 but I feel like that could take a while to materialize.