FX’s Alien: Earth concluded its debut season run with a moment that almost felt like a stage-play curtain call: All the acclaimed sci-fi drama’s surviving broken toy characters (some, like Timothy Olyphant’s Kirsh, literally broken) together in one room — including the xenomorph. They didn’t quite take a bow for the audience, but their ambitions and murderous resentments were seeming put on hold — for now.

The uniquely staged cliffhanger was also rather practical. Showrunner and executive producer Noah Hawley arguably gave himself plenty of options for season two rather than box himself into one particular direction following a season that incorporated several different ideas, genre styles and threads.

FX’s Alien: Earth concluded its debut season run with a moment that almost f

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