It’s not easy to create an alien that can compete for your interest with a Xenomorph — which is arguably the greatest cinematic monster of all time.
But Alien: Earth writer-director-producer Noah Hawley hit a home run with at least one of his four original alien creations for his FX series with The Eye — an highly intelligent ever-starring eyeball with sucker-tipped tentacles that burrow’s into a victim’s head and then uses its body like a puppet.
And in the fourth episode of the show’s first season, “Observation,” Hawley managed to make the creature even more unsettling by having a scene where Boy Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin) and Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) conduct an experiment by letting The Eye infect a sheep — which now has a highly creepy all-knowing stare.
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