This post contains spoilers for this week’s episode of Alien: Earth, “Metamorphosis,” now streaming on Hulu. Midway through “Metamorphosis,” Boy Kavalier and his faithful synthetic sidekick Kirsh get into a debate about the wisdom of bringing the creatures retrieved from the Maginot wreckage back to Prodigy’s Neverland headquarters. Kirsh not …
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This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Alien: Earth, now streaming on Hulu.The Alien movies are filled with so many ideas about what their future society is like that it feels close to (chest) bursting. But because most of the films are first and foremost suspense stories …
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Noah Hawley recently said of his plan for Alien: Earth, the first TV show based on the iconic science-fiction/action-horror film series, “Imagine if there were five movies about the White Walkers, and I went and made Game of Thrones.” Hawley is a creator who has never lacked confidence in his …
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When a director arrives at a filming location, they have a lot of important tasks before the real work can begin. Department heads to consult. Actors to be prep. Schedules to lock. When Noah Hawley got to Bangkok to direct the first episode of Alien: Earth, he immediately had to …
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The ATX TV Festival, founded by TV superfans Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland and held annually in Austin, is an intimate, enlightening, taco-adjacent celebration of all things small screen. Each year brings an eclectic mix of panels, some focused on individual series (both new and old), some on industry-wide themes, …
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