Editor's note: The below contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 2.

Alien: Earth has barely begun, but is already breaking new ground in the Alien franchise — and retracing some older steps, too. The series premiere introduces a brave new world where five megacorporations have divided the Earth between them, and, as they race to get as close as possible to achieving human immortality, have developed three types of artificial beings : fully synthetic androids, cyborgs (humans with cybernetic enhancements), and a new addition to the franchise, called hybrids. At the core of Earth 's story are a couple of siblings, Hermit ( Alex Lawther ) and Wendy ( Sydney Chandler ), but there's a twist: he is human, but she is a hybrid — her mind was transported from a dying human

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