There are many adjectives you could use to describe the Alien franchise. Scary? Absolutely. Thoughtful? At times. Satirical? It can be. But for me, the word that always comes to mind is wet . There’s scarcely any set in an Alien movie — even in outer space! — that doesn’t look like it was sprayed down with a hose just before the director called “Action!” And the goo! Dear God, the goo. Dripping from ceilings, oozing from biomasses, coating the Xenomorphs’ many mouths. Sometimes, these films look downright viscous .

“Metamorphosis,” Alien: Earth ’s third episode, finally brings this TV series’ first big adventure to a close, as Prodigy’s Lost Boys head back to Neverland Island with a transport full of dangerous alien specimens. But before that can happen, Wendy has to wade into

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