This post contains major spoilers for FX's "Alien: Earth."

Noah Hawley's "Alien: Earth" etches a troubling portrait for humanity. This prequel to Ridley Scott's "Alien" ( whose events are set two years after that of the series ) proposes that mankind is not only driven by corporate greed, but an obsessive need to achieve immortality. The first two episodes of "Alien: Earth" establish this unnerving impulse by explaining the existence of cyborgs and synthetics alongside humans, and how up-and-coming corpo Prodigy has pioneered hybrids to achieve this goal.

While the "Alien" franchise has always dissected the shifting definitions of what makes us human, its core focus has always been the "other," i.e, the perfect organisms that are antithetical to all that humanity stands for. After se

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