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By Joshua Tyler | Published
Taking the alien franchise to the world of television is not obvious, Slam may seem. Traveling between the two media has worked for other science fiction franchises, but it has often been the first horror and science fiction in second place. It is only because the first alien films were incredibly good in everything that ALIEN: Earth It has the background material that must go beyond that.
The horror functions better in the confines of a single film. You can keep an audience on the edge of your seat for a couple of hours, but not for 24 episodes per season. Try to do it only leaves them numb.
That is why the most successful horror television programs are usually anthology series or, if a linear narrative is offered, eventually the transition to a different genre. The Living DeadFor example, it was more of dystopian survival than to escape zombies.
The alien franchise tried and failed before something similar with the film. Prometheus. That failure did not deter them from trying again. Doing something similar should be the goal of an alien series on television, and so far, that is exactly what ALIEN: Earth He is on his way to do.
The series begins with a sequence that is felt as if filmed in the 1970 Foreign movie. It is an impressively detailed sequence of set design, costumes and carefully similar camera angles. It is also a sign that FX, the company behind the program, is willing to spend a lot of money on it because it is not where the majority of the series is carried out, and they will only fly it.
The ship is a scientific container that returns to Earth with samples of different alien forms of life. Yes, they have one of those and, of course, it is released and kills everyone on board. That happens to a large extent outside the camera, and that’s fine, because it is not the point of the show.
The ship is ALIEN: Earth’s inciting event. He crashes against a skyscraper of the city on the planet Earth and releases the alien xenomorph within the future world of humanity.
In the future, the Earth is directed by five mega corporations. One of them is Weyland-Yutani, the infamous villains of all Foreign cinema. The newest is Prodigy, a corporation/country headed by a billionaire with an obsession with Peter Pan.
The life of this Billonario is very similar to a recreation on a larger scale of the film. Ex-Machinaexcept that their experiments with robotics involve transferring the minds of children with terminal diseases to indestructible robots, and not creating AI.
That’s where ALIEN: Earth Makes the change of being the horror first to science fiction first. Robotic children, renamed by their Billionaire benefactor after Peter Pan’s lost children, are sent to investigate the star ship.
Sydney Chandler plays Wendy, leader of lost children and our main character. It seems an adult, but acts as a child, something that Chandler does so well that he feels real. She has her own agenda, and so far is the character you are supporting.
Two episodes in ALIEN: Earth It is establishing a mediation on the nature of human consciousness, while there is still vessels in terrifying jumps of jump, wild gore and horror xenomorph as our old friend, the unstoppable killing machine does its thing. It is intelligent, it is interesting and well acted (with an exception, more about that in a minute).
The most interesting character of the program is not alive. It is an android named Kirsch, played by Justified Timothy Olyphant with a wild bleaching work. Kirsch is the caregiver of lost hybrid children, and things raise every time he is on the screen.
If there is a problem with ALIEN: EarthIt is Samuel Blenkin’s performance as Boy Kavalier, head of the Prodigy Corporation. They give him a well -written and fascinating dialogue of the screenwriter and showrunner Noah Hawley. Then he delivers this while he eats too many apples, disturbing in his chair and making several effects that distract that they do not coincide with the words that come out of his mouth.
It is Blenkin’s interpretation of how it would look if a rich guy had a Peter Pan complex, but it is a total mismatch with what the program writes for him. Maybe it will calm down, and improve, like ALIEN: Earth Continue.
For now, the series has had a strong start. Where history comes next will determine whether it deserves to continue transmitting in Hulu, but after years of disappointment in the world of feature films, ALIEN: Earth It can be the correct movement.
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