If you had told me, back with the trailers for FX’s Alien: Earth first dropped, that at this point in the season, with the finale just a week away, I’d be riveted, mesmerized—nay, possessed —not by clingy Facehuggers or big-boy Xenomorphs, but instead by a determined, resourceful eyeball with octopus legs, I would have said: what .

But the world is a strange and surprising place, and what I’m saying today is: werk .

Since the genuinely fantastic series debuted back in August, many fans have pointed out that Alien: Earth ’s eyeball monster—dubbed Trypanohyncha Ocellus and gendered female by her space safari captors—is stealing the show. She’s small, sure, and at first glance, her socketless, squishy form may suggest weakness. But woe to he who underestimates her gumption, for

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