‘Alien: Earth’ Is the Most Obvious Show on TV

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“This ship, to be clear, is an object, not a location. It’s a ball that got hit over the fence into the neighbor’s yard. I’m the neighbor. So the ship belongs to me now.”

If there’s anything that Alien: Earth really did right, it was casting Timothy Olyphant. As Kirsh, the sardonic synth who acts as the ultimate right hand man, Olyphant is firing on all four cylinders. There’s a little bit of Raylan Givens’ cocksurety in how Kirsh declares control of the downed space vessel on behalf of his employer, Prodigy, to the gun-wielding cyborg, Morrow (Babou Ceesay), who’s trying in vain to maintain ownership on behalf of his employer, the familiar Weyland-Yutani for Alien franchise fans. It’s a cool moment, with Ki

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