The first step in the scientific method—observation—basically amounts to witnessing a phenomena and asking questions about how the hell it's happening. So it's oddly fitting that "Observation," the fourth episode of Alien: Earth and the show's first-ever dud, actually feels like we're watching things unfold through the filter of a glass pane.

A lot of important stuff is indeed happening on Alien: Earth , culminating in Wendy (Sydney Chandler) fostering a disturbing connection with a chestburster that practically sees her as its caretaker, if not its mother. But the plodding pace and story-juggling of "Observation" imposes such an emotional distance that even when you're watching the creepiest, goriest shit you've ever seen on a TV show, it's impossible to feel anything.

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