Recap: The ‘Alien: Earth’ Finale Needed More Eyeball

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From the very first episode , a common critique of Alien: Earth has been that it’s all rather obvious. So when I tell you that the season finale is titled “The Real Monsters,” I can assure you that it’s not talking about the aliens. The people were the monsters all along, get it?! That it was unsubtle does not mean that it was unsatisfying, though. Humans being the freaking worst was always the point, so seeing that theme play out to its fitting conclusion — with Boy Kavalier and co. locked up under the watchful eye of Wendy, her Lost Boys, and her pet Xenomorph — made sense. And with the greater forces of Weyland-Yutani set to descend on the now Synth-and-Alien-occupied Neverland i

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