The inaugural season of creator Noah Hawley’s well-reviewed series “Alien: Earth” ended on a pretty substantial cliffhanger that begs for an immediate season two renewal.
A new power dynamic emerged in the final moments of the season finale, “The Real Monsters.” And that doesn’t touch on the Weyland-Yutani of it all.
As Daniel Kurland put it in his finale review, “Alien: Earth’s Lost Boys are destabilized, Neverland is in ruins, and Wendy has gone rogue while the proverbial Tinker Bell sizes up its prey. The audience may applaud loudly after this season finale masterpiece, but it’s not going to save Alien: Earth’s prisoners.”
While Disney has yet to green-light a second season, the series creator has been vocal about continuation hopes.
Hawley recently told Polygon that he isn’t worried about ending season one on such an open note. “I’m pretty confident, given the show’s success, that we’ll get to make more,” he said. “The risk is the reward.”
The series creator, speaking with THR, feels confident about the show’s renewal odds. “I think we’ve launched incredibly well. I’m certainly hoping that it’s not a long nail-biter of ‘Can we do this again?’ My hope is certainly in the next couple of months to get some kind of sign from them as to whether I should get another job or get back to work.”
“Certainly, I don’t want the show to be off the air for any longer than it absolutely has to be. So, there’s some urgency there to get us going as quickly as possible. But ultimately, this is a Disney decision, so I’m excited to see what they do. There’s so many great hard rock songs left to play,“ Hawley told Screenrant of when we might expect to hear about the series’ fate.
In the first Alien television series, “Five corporations – Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold – wield the power of nations, and proprietary advancements in technology provide the promise of a new tomorrow. When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands on Earth, a young woman and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet’s greatest threat.”
Led by Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), the series showcases an expansive international cast that includes Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, David Rysdahl, Adrian Edmondson, Adarsh Gourav, Jonathan Ajayi, Erana James, Lily Newmark, Diem Camille, and Moe Bar-El.
