Ridley Scott’s Alien Prequel Is So Good, It’s Already Been Renewed for Season 2
FX's Alien: Earth, the Alien franchise's first television series, has already been renewed for a second season after earning strong critical acclaim, including a 94% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Created by Noah Hawley with Ridley Scott as executive producer, the show is set two years before the original 1979 film and explores what happens when a Xenomorph reaches Earth, tying back into the franchise's recurring themes of corporate power and synthetic humans.
The series follows the crash of the Weyland-Yutani vessel USCSS Maginot into the city of New Siam, triggering a scramble among five rival mega-corporations to claim its cargo, including several alien specimens. Prodigy founder Boy Kavalier sends his "Lost Boys" — a team of "hybrids" with human consciousness in synthetic bodies, led by Sydney Chandler's character Wendy — to secure the assets, with the story centring on the clash between humanity and technology as the hybrids begin asserting greater autonomy.
- FX's Alien: Earth renewed for Season 2 after strong reviews
- Show scores 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, set before 1979's Alien
- Follows "hybrid" humans battling a Xenomorph loose on Earth
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Alien: Earth is a new television series set in the Alien science fiction universe, made for the FX network with Ridley Scott, who directed the original 1979 film, as an executive producer alongside creator Noah Hawley. It is the franchise's first ever TV show, taking place two years before that original film and following what happens when one of the series' hostile alien creatures, a Xenomorph, ends up on Earth for the first time.
The plot centres on a spaceship crash that draws several rival corporations into a race to seize dangerous alien specimens on board. Among them is a company called Prodigy, whose founder sends out a team known as the "Lost Boys" to retrieve the cargo. These characters are "hybrids", synthetic bodies containing human minds, and much of the story explores the tension between humans and this new form of technology.
The show continues themes long associated with the Alien franchise, particularly the power of large corporations and questions about artificial life, while extending that story onto Earth itself for the first time rather than in deep space.