Alien: Earth
Quando una misteriosa nave spaziale si schianta sulla Terra, una giovane donna (Sydney Chandler) e un gruppo di soldati tattici fanno una scoperta fatidica che li mette faccia a faccia con la più grande minaccia per il pianeta.
sebazyha recensito
26 dicembre 2025•
I went into this assuming it would follow on from Romulus, I was wrong (kind of) but Earth is similar in many ways, both good and bad.
First off the good: The overall setting and concept is peak and the opening is delivered brilliantly, it feels like an Alien *film*. No corners cut (at least at first), the sets, creatures and overall aesthetic is superb. There's a few spots later where it looks a bit like a UE5 greenscreen but those visual dips are thankfully infrequent.
Then the mixed: Specifically the casting... I'll be blunt, it feels like a box ticking exercise and it doesn't even attempt to hide it. Outside of a few locked in roles there's just no consistency whatsoever. It's a shame that it's so glaring as there are some excellent performances in here. Morrow and Kirsh were the standouts for me. Brilliant job from both of them IMO.
Finally, the bad: I think it's fair to say that the writing is the weakest link in the series. It starts out well with a strong concept to build from, but dwindles and flounders with increased frequency as the episodes roll by. It's frustrating that the finale felt rushed and cut short after how steady things were leading up to that. But the thing that stood out to me the most was perhaps the most modern of trends, writers that assume that the watcher is either a) stupid or b) can't pay attention for more than a minute.
Every time a character came out with something open ended, you could be sure the next scene cut would shove the answer firmly in your face within seconds just to be absolutely clear you knew what they were talking about.
Meanwhile there were times where characters would do inexplicably stupid or out of character things. Stuff would be completely overlooked despite being exposed on not 5 minutes prior. Even the writers themselves were guilty of this. The saboteur was probably the most egregious example of this. What an absolute wasted opportunity that was.
However, as negative as that sounds, overall I enjoyed it. There were certainly a few moments where its faults had me cringing, but the highs were good enough to have me putting up with the lows. Like Romulus, it started out well, had some cringe bits in the middle, got a bit of a kick into shape at the halfway mark before inexplicably tripping over itself at the finish line.
Consider me nervously optimistic for season 2. It's either going to be great or awful.
sebazyha recensito
26 dicembre 2025•
I went into this assuming it would follow on from Romulus, I was wrong (kind of) but Earth is similar in many ways, both good and bad.
First off the good: The overall setting and concept is peak and the opening is delivered brilliantly, it feels like an Alien *film*. No corners cut (at least at first), the sets, creatures and overall aesthetic is superb. There's a few spots later where it looks a bit like a UE5 greenscreen but those visual dips are thankfully infrequent.
Then the mixed: Specifically the casting... I'll be blunt, it feels like a box ticking exercise and it doesn't even attempt to hide it. Outside of a few locked in roles there's just no consistency whatsoever. It's a shame that it's so glaring as there are some excellent performances in here. Morrow and Kirsh were the standouts for me. Brilliant job from both of them IMO.
Finally, the bad: I think it's fair to say that the writing is the weakest link in the series. It starts out well with a strong concept to build from, but dwindles and flounders with increased frequency as the episodes roll by. It's frustrating that the finale felt rushed and cut short after how steady things were leading up to that. But the thing that stood out to me the most was perhaps the most modern of trends, writers that assume that the watcher is either a) stupid or b) can't pay attention for more than a minute.
Every time a character came out with something open ended, you could be sure the next scene cut would shove the answer firmly in your face within seconds just to be absolutely clear you knew what they were talking about.
Meanwhile there were times where characters would do inexplicably stupid or out of character things. Stuff would be completely overlooked despite being exposed on not 5 minutes prior. Even the writers themselves were guilty of this. The saboteur was probably the most egregious example of this. What an absolute wasted opportunity that was.
However, as negative as that sounds, overall I enjoyed it. There were certainly a few moments where its faults had me cringing, but the highs were good enough to have me putting up with the lows. Like Romulus, it started out well, had some cringe bits in the middle, got a bit of a kick into shape at the halfway mark before inexplicably tripping over itself at the finish line.
Consider me nervously optimistic for season 2. It's either going to be great or awful.
