Alien: Earth (FX/Hulu, 2025)

Very long and stretched. Takes at least a minute to switch from one scene to another. Half a minute to transfer an egg from the box to the table. 2 whole minutes for the lead actress to go to the lab. 3.5 minutes for Timothy to fly from the crash site to the base. In none of these scenes, a single dialogue was said. You just stare into the monitor, waiting for things to move forward. And occasionally feel the need to kill the writer or the CEO character.

Since the episodes are so stretched, here is the summary of the 3 episodes so far I came up with.

E1 & E2
A bored CEO converts sick kids into physically strong manchilds. A ship carrying aliens crashes and kills the search and rescue team of the bored CEO. The first of the manchild finds her brother, who gets captured by an alien immediately.

E3
The sister saves the brother, but both of them are injured. Manchilds are not happy. The CEO is satisfied with getting some killer specimens. Sister is now connected to the alien's mind. Brother gets a liver transplant, and his old liver can now eat aliens. The ship's security guard is coming for them.

They stretched this to 3 hours of television, which I won't get back.
 
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Finally saw episode 4. Let's summarize.

Sister can now talk with aliens, which fascinates the CEO. Scientists introduce an alien into sheep to deduce that they are highly intelligent. Could have just watched the Alien movie, but they killed an innocent sheep. The soldier threatens one of the manchild to bring the alien egg by using a human host. One of the manchild girls who was attacked by an alien might be pregnant. One of the scientists and a few manchildren are getting bored with the show like I am and want to revolt.
 
Is it worth watching? There was also an Animated series going on, thinking of sticking to it since this one is feeling lame and forced.
 
If you can overlook the pacing, then yeah it's a decent show. My biggest issue is very little happens in an hour long episode and personally I find most of the characters annoying. I don't care for any of them. You need to get past the first episode and see if it appeals to you.
 
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