FX’s ‘Alien: Earth’ delivers Xenomorph terror with a ‘Peter Pan’ twist

This review contains mild spoilers for “Alien: Earth,” Season 1.

FX’s new “Alien” prequel, “Alien: Earth,” batters viewers expecting Xenomorph horror from an additional, less expected angle: The series is practically drowning in “Peter Pan” metaphors that don’t quite work. Subscribe for unlimited access to The Post You can cancel anytime. Subscribe

That’s partly by design; this is a show about infelicitous hybrids. What happens when things combine that once couldn’t, and perhaps shouldn’t?

The Pan references come mostly from a nefarious young trillionaire named Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) who founded Prodigy, one of the five major corporations controlling the globe. He relishes reading J.M. Barrie passages aloud to his “Lost Boys,” a group of six powerful and virtually immortal syn