Contains spoilers for "Alien: Earth" Season 1, Episode 1 — "Neverland"

The "Alien" franchise is always heavily loaded with creepy, crawly monsters ready to drool on, bite, and invade human bodies at the drop of a hat. But in the first episode of "Alien: Earth," the creepiest being that the series has to offer isn't an entity from beyond the stars — it's Wendy (Sydney Chandler), a hybrid synthetic who bears the consciousness of a dead child.

Watching her behave like a kid who's totally bewildered by adult concepts and realizing she's about to be sent out to investigate a shipload of deadly creatures is undeniably unsettling, while the less we say about her spying via video cameras on her brother, Hermit (Alex Lawther), whom she speaks of in almost wistfully romantic tones, the better.

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