"Alien: Earth" spoilers follow.

The core story of "Alien: Earth" isn't really about aliens at all. Rather, it follows the residents of a research facility owned by the Prodigy corporation, which is conducting experimental work transferring the minds of terminally ill children into immortal synthetic adult bodies. The result is a show starring grown actors behaving like prepubescent kids.

Inevitably some viewers are going to take issue with that choice. There's something innate in us that makes it frustrating to watch adults behaving like children, and the heavy-handed Peter Pan parallels in "Alien: Earth" don't help much. Some parts of the plot are certainly a bit annoying, but I'd argue that burden mainly falls on how Prodigy CEO Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) is written and directed. Y

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