You wake in a bleak new mining colony and what they’re mining is the remnants of the Alien franchise. We discuss the new Alien franchise film, ALIEN: ROMULUS, getting into what we enjoyed, what we didn’t enjoy, and how the film struggles to situate itself within the franchise’s recurrent Scott-Cameron dichotomy.

Content warning: body horror, death, sexual violence and rape, biological experimentation, colonialism, slavery, pregnancy.

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

Full references for this episode available in Zotero at https://www.zotero.org/simonxix/collections/XPGSGDXE