Spoilers for Episode 8 (“The Real Monsters”) of Alien: Earth to follow.
It’s finale time for Noah Hawley‘s Alien: Earth and all Trace and I can say about the ending is that this better only be the season one finale because we need another season ASAP.
Written by Hawley & Migizi Pensoneau, “The Real Monsters” starts off with our hybrids locked up in an enormous cage. By episode’s end, however, it’s the humans, synths and cyborgs of Neverland who are behind bars as a new world order is established.
Some talking points:
- Our fears that Rose/Formerly Nibs’ (Lily Newmark) was dead were unwarranted because she’s revealed to be fine almost immediately.
- Everyone’s favorite alien specimen, The Eye, takes a beating by Marcy/Formerly Wendy (Sydney Chandler) but survives to take ownership of Arthur’s (David Rysdahl) body
- Dame Sylvia (Essie Davis) doesn’t get much to do, other than get terrorized by Marcy’s videos confirming that she’s been a bad mother figure. The poor woman doesn’t even learn her husband is “dead”
- Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) spends the episode skipping past danger before Marcy sics the Xenomorph on him and he quite literally shits himself. The comedic high point of the episode is when Marcy opens the cage door with a flick of the wrist and urges him to “run.”
- The much anticipated showdown between Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) and Morrow (Babou Ceesay) finally happens in the lab, although the results are surprising: the cyborg gets the upper hand on the synth, resulting in a broken back for Kirsh. He’s damaged, but still alive at episode’s end, however!
- In the same sequence, we finally get confirmation of what The Plant can do, though perhaps we should call it The Umbrella after what it does to poor Siberian (Diêm Camille)?
- Surprising no one, it is revealed that Atom (Adrian Edmondson) is a synthetic that Boy Kavalier modelled after his father, who he had the android kill.
- Oh yeah, and the episode ends with Yutani warships advancing on the island as Marcy declares the hybrids now rule.
Overall this is a pretty exciting finale that nicely wraps up most S01 storylines, while laying the groundwork for a much larger story to come. Let’s just hope that Disney & FX make the right decision by ordering up S02 immediately.
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