Ever since Ian Holm’s Ash oozed milky white blood all over the floor of the USCSS Nostromo , androids have been an integral part of the Alien franchise. Now FX’s Alien: Earth , the first TV series in the hallowed IP, has upped the ante in a major way.

The eight-episode Noah Hawley-created project features three distinct flavors of artificial intelligence: your standard android (Timothy Olyphant’s Kirsh), a cybernetically-enhanced human (Babou Ceesay’s Morrow), and a collection of child brains in robotic bodies known as “hybrids,” whose unique consciousness have led to some rich drama. Case in point is the season’s penultimate episode “Emergence,” in which hybrids Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and Nibs (Lily Newmark) come across their own graves, occupied by tiny bodies they’ve left behind

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