Simon and Jim return to The Xenopod for a special episode discussing the new Alien franchise TV series, Alien: Earth created by Noah Hawley. They discuss how well the worldbuilding works, the production design, the creature design before ultimately descending into discussion of why the series as a whole doesn’t work: pacing issues including the pacing issues with US prestige TV in general, themes that don’t fit the Alien franchise, narrative threads that taper off unresolved, and the never-ending Peter Pan references.

Content warnings: body horror; mutilation and violent death; biological experimentation; child slavery; transhumanism and biological augmentation; pregnancy; eyeball stuff.

Our theme song is Alien Remix by Leslie Wai available on SoundCloud: ⁠⁠⁠https://soundcloud.com/lesliewai/alien-remix⁠