This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth , now streaming on Hulu.

The Alien movies are filled with so many ideas about what their future society is like that it feels close to (chest) bursting. But because most of the films are first and foremost suspense stories about surviving the Xenomorphs, these ideas are often teased only briefly, leaving fans of the franchise to fill in the gaps on their own.

With Alien: Earth , Noah Hawley intends to turn those teases into the primary story, while also taking advantage of the length of a TV season to throw in a lot of Xenomorph action. These two opening episodes, “Neverland” (written and directed by Hawley) and “Mr. October” (written by Hawley and directed by Dana Gonzales), do very well with the second half

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