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Critic Reviews
The Mercury NewsAug 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It is Hawley’s astute attention to detail and desire to construct an intricate story that distinguish and make “Alien: Earth” a big step up in quality for the “Alien” series overall. It’s certainly one of the best series I’ve seen this year, and better than the majority of studio blockbusters this summer in theaters.
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RogerEbert.comAug 8, 2025
Season 1 Review:
He [Noah Hawley] takes the essence of three art forms—the film world of one of the biggest sci-fi franchises of all time, the structure of episodic television, and even the literary foundation of, believe it or not, Peter Pan—and makes something that feels like nothing else on television.
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TV InsiderAug 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The Alien movies set the standard for suspenseful science fiction laced with classic monster-movie horror. Earth, created by Fargo‘s brilliant Noah Hawley, honors that tradition with imagination, intelligence, impressively epic style, and a devilish taste for graphically gruesome ick that recalls John Carpenter‘s iconic 1982 The Thing.
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Aug 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
[Noah Hawley] excels at taking existing IP and contorting it in new ways to reveal what really sets those universes apart. He does that once more in Alien: Earth. .... I very much dug the incredible performances of Alien: Earth‘s ensemble cast. .... The cinematography is lush, the production design sumptuous, and the kills are horrifying.
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Aug 7, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Make no mistake, “Alien: Earth” is terrifying. .... But “Alien: Earth” also makes for gripping science fiction — and carefully layered drama. .... The first season of “Alien: Earth” — and you can bet your house there will be a season 2 — keeps building until the final scene of the final episode. It’s a textbook for how to leave the viewer salivating for what’s next.
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Aug 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
After a riveting first half of the premiere, too many slow-burn action and horror sequences all but arrest the development of the plot and characters until Episode 3. But the fourth episode is a revelation. .... From there, like a spaceship fleeing to the safety of its home solar system, Earth is firing on all cylinders: narrative, stylistic, psychological, philosophical.
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Aug 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Simultaneously providing fans with the eggs (Easter and Xenomorph) they expect, and shedding concerns of fitting into continuity, Noah Hawley has made an amazing piece of science fiction on the strength of solid production and creature design, an incredible cast, and needle drops that make me want a cigarette.
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Aug 6, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Alien: Earth still feels at times like an eight-hour movie, slowly building to a chaotic climax, and it’s hard to see at this point how the story could continue for multiple seasons. Hawley has earned our trust by now, though… and once again, with a seemingly unadaptable franchise, he has delivered.
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Screen RantAug 29, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The grimy, slippery murkiness of the Alien films can be felt in every frame, but so, too, can this new/old setting of a future Earth. Still, in expanding the story beyond one spaceship or sparsely inhabited planet, some of the movies' claustrophobic horror is lost, evident in the sometimes choppy pacing of the series.
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Aug 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Has a real sense of scale, although it sometimes gets so weighed down that its forward progress slows to a crawl. (At the end of its two-hour premiere, the characters still haven’t left that apartment building.) It’s a big show about big ideas, expansive in a moment when most television is scaling back, and it’s got a whole universe to explore.
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The GuardianAug 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s usually a bad sign if you’re wondering what the heck is going on in a drama when you’re two episodes in, but there is an exception: you can happily ride on if you sense that, although you don’t know what it’s doing, the show definitely does. Such is the bristling, bewildering, overpoweringly confident aura of Alien: Earth.
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Aug 11, 2025
Season 1 Review:
[Noah Hawley] knows how to keep things interesting over a long series, and he understands the assignment here.. .... The cognitive dissonance of being kids in grown-up bodies — often the stuff of comedy — is one of the more intriguing aspects of the series, if not as deeply explored as it might have been. But there are monsters fighting for screen time.
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Aug 5, 2025
Aug 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Aliens do not have the inner lives — that we know of, at least — to propel the plot of a show over hours or even seasons, a length that “Earth” is explicitly aiming for. For that, Hawley turns to Wendy and her fellow synthetics, thrilled and terrified and in some cases destabilized by their new lease on life. They’re not as flashy as the voracious monsters, but they prove a richer vein to mine.
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Radio TimesAug 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
For the most part, this is a pretty propulsive series, and even the episodes of 'downtime' are filled with engaging drama and compelling philosophical musings. It's also helped by the fact that all of this takes place alongside a hugely impressive mix of practical and digital effects, as well as with some stunning production design.
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LooperAug 5, 2025
ColliderAug 5, 2025
Aug 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The series is slower, dreamier, and hallucinatory than many of the Alien films outside of Alien³ and Alien: Resurrection, snapping the audience out of its hypnotic spell with either sudden, shocking bursts of violence, or with the well-curated ’90s alt-rock needle drops that end every episode.
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