He and his team are dispatched to do damage control when a rival corporation’s research vessel crash lands on Prodigy territory. However, Hermit has more to worry about than saving civilians. The crashed ship was carrying five alien creatures,

Much like the film franchise that spawned it, not all the horror in Alien: Earth will involve aliens, it seems. However, if you’ve seen the first two episodes, you know there’s also plenty of oozy extraterrestrial terror on the show too. Have you checked it out yet?

Alex Lawther is one of the stars of the new Alien spin-off series, Alien: Earth, set two years before the original 1979 Ridley Scott film.

Alien: Earth stars Sydney Chandler and Alex Lawther discussed how Noah Hawley's vision serves the franchise, world-building, and much more.

In addition to being a prequel to Scott's Alien lore, the show also explores themes of AI, where synthetic/artificial bodies are being developed to place human consciousness. Chandler's character, Wendy, is the first prototype of this hybrid between humans and artificial bodies, and is tasked with saving Earth from other life forms.

The Alien franchise has always understood something very important about the sci-fi genre: there’s gotta be some cool and/or weird names.

But in that Star Wars spin-off, Lawther played a character with limited screen time, an impressive cog in a vast, vast story. In Alien: Earth, Lawther is the story, or at least a major part of it. All of which leaves the impression that this show might just send the actor’s career into the stratosphere, past planet LV-426 and beyond.

Created by Noah Hawley, Alien: Earth, is a sci-fi horror series that is based on the much-loved Alien movies. The series premiered recently on FX and FX on Hulu on August 12, 2025 and will be available internationally on Disney+.

Earth' created by Noah Hawley was released on August 12, 2025. Read what netizens are saying about Sydney Chandler starrer.